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Classes D and E.—School Management. Time allowed : Three hours. [Note. —Candidates may not answer more than one question in any one section ol the paper. They must answer every section to obtain full marks ; but they are urged to pay especial attention to Sections 1., 11., and lII.]

Section I.—Time-tables. 1. Point out the radical defects and suggest working amendments in the following time-table for a school in which the teacher has no regular assistance:-—

2. What essential differences are there in the conditions of work in an infant-school and in an elementary district school ? Draw up a time-table for a country school under one teacher, having an infant-class, and in which the requirements of T)oth kinds of work are met as far as possible under such circumstances. 3. Construct, for a separate school of six standards with a suitable teacher to each class, a time-table capable of easy adaptation to a school of like character, but with only half that staff. Indicate how the time-table might be most readily adapted to meet the altered circumstances. Section" ll.—Notes of Lessons. 1. What principles should guide a teacher (a) in selecting, and (V) in determining the order of, the facts in an oral biographical lesson, or in a lesson on the geography of a district with which the pupils are never likely to be brought into close relation ? Draw up notes of one such lesson, of half an hour's duration, in illustration of your theory. 2. Construct teaching-notes, giving details of method, of a half-hour lesson on (a) G-rainmar to Standard V.; or, (5) History to Standard IV.; or, (c) Arithmetic to Standard 11. 3. Select a suitable subject for an object-lesson. State the standard to which you would give it, and the time you would allow for it; and construct original teaching-notes on the subject, giving prominence to the illustrations you would employ.

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Time. Standard I. Standard II. Standard III. Standard IV. Infant Division. A.M. 9.30-10.0 10.0 -10.30 10.30-11.0 11.0 -11.30 Arithmetic Reading ... Writing ... Slate-writing (figures) Arithmetic Arithmetic Writing (copybooks) Slate-writing (letters) Arithmetic Arithmetic Writing Reading and Grammar Dictation Mental arithmetic Arithmetic Arithmetic Writing Geography Reading. Slate-writing. Slate-writing. Slate-writing. 11.30-11.50 11.50-12.0 P.M. 12.0 -12.30 Slate-writing (figures) Slate-writing (letters) Slate-writing (letters) Slate-writing (lotters) Dictation Mental arithmetic Recess. Slate-writing. Slate-writing (letters) Reading ... PreparingGeography PreparingGeography Slate-writing. 1.30- 2.0 2.0 - 2.20 2.20- 2.40 Arithmetic Arithmetic Reading ... Arithmetic Arithmetic Slate-writing (capital letters) Slate-writing (capital letters) Writing (copybooks) Geography Arithmetic Arithmetic Mapping Arithmetic Reading Mapping Reading. Slate-writing. Slate-writing. 2.40- 3.0 Slate-writing Preparing Grammar Writing Counting and fig> ures. Slate-writing. Slate-writing. 3.0 - 3.15 3.15- 3.30 Slate-writing Writing (copybooks) History... Composition ... History... Grammar