Time and place.
This examination will be held each year (except in the case of American, German, and South African scholarships, as noted above on p. 24) in each State or Territory, Province and Colony, not later than the month of January, at suitable centres fixed upon by the respective Committees of Selection. The Committees will appoint suitable persons to supervise the examination and ensure its impartial conduct.
Stationery will be supplied. The packets of papers when opened will be found to contain the examination questions, time tables, the printed text of classical passages, &c., which are set in questions. Therefore no textbooks will be required.
The subjects and books assigned may vary slightly from year to year. The requirements, however, are as follows:[34]—
1. Arithmetic—the whole.
2. Either, The Elements of Algebra—Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division, Greatest Common Measure, Least Common Multiple, Fractions, Extraction of Square Root, Simple Equations containing one or two unknown quantities, and problems producing such equations;
Or, The Elements of Geometry.
Elementary questions, including propositions enunciated by Euclid, and easy deductions therefrom, will be set on the subject-matter contained in the following portions of Euclid’s Elements, viz.:—
Book I. The whole, excluding propositions 7, 16, 17, 21.