The questions are oral, and extend over the whole course of study pursued during the two years. Each student is taken separately for one hour and a quarter on different days by each of the five examiners; each examiner examines about eight students daily.
A table, very similar to that already given, is prepared under the superintendence of the Director of studies for every student, to ascertain the numerical amount of his credits in each branch of study, the co-efficients of influences for the particular subject of study and nature of examination being extracted from a table similar to that in page 80, and when these tables have all been completed, a general list of all the students is made out, arranged in the order of their merits.
Formerly, conduct was permitted to exercise some slight influence on their position, but that is no longer the case.
The same regulations exist, as regards the minimum amount of credit that will entitle the students to enter into the public service, as have already been stated above in reference to the passage from the first to the second year’s course of study.
TABLE II. SECOND YEAR’S COURSE OF STUDY: FIRST DIVISION.
RP Result of previous Year’s Examination.
WA Written Answers to Professors’ Questions.
ER Examinations by Répétiteurs. (Int. Part.)
GE General Examinations. (Int. Gen.)
Man. Manipulations.