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In the event of the rejection on medical grounds of a candidate who would otherwise have been selected for the qualifying examination, the parent or guardian will at once be informed that, subject to the payment of a fee of four guineas, the candidate may present himself for re-examination by the Appeal Board, and that if an appeal is desired notification must be made by the parent or guardian to the Director-General of the Medical Department, Admiralty, within a week of the first medical examination. The notification must be accompanied by a cheque for four guineas made payable to the Accountant-General of the Navy. *9. The qualifying examination is in the following subjects : —■ (1.) English (including writing from dictation and reproduction of the gist of a short passage twice read aloud to the candidates). (2.) History and geography, with special reference to the British Empire. (3.) Arithmetic and algebra : Two-thirds of the questions in this paper will be on arithmetic ; the use of algebraic symbols and processes will be allowed. Arithmetic : The simple and compound rules, avoirdupois weight, linear and square and cubic measures, the elementary mensuration of rectangular surfaces and volumes, measure of capacity (pints, quarts, gallons), the metric system (the metre, gramme, and litre, with their multiples and sub-multiples), money (including the relationship of the cent to the dollar, and the centime to the franc), reduction, factors, the addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and simplification of vulgar fractions, non-recurring decimal fractions, simple proportion, ratio and percentage, simple interest. Algebra: The meaning of algebraic symbols, substitution of values, easy identities, equations of the first degree including simultaneous equations, verifica ion of the solution of equations, problems leading to simple equations, multiplication and division by binomial operator, easy factors (excluding sum and difference of cubes), fractions with numerical denominators. (4.) Geometry : The paper will consist of questions both on practical and on theoretical geometry. All candidates must be provided with a ruler graduated in inches and tenths, and also in centimetres and millimetres, a small set square, a protractor, pencil compasses, and a hard pencil. Any proof of a proposition will be accepted which appears to the examiner to form part of a systematic treatment of the subject. Simple deductions from specified theorems will be set. Proofs of the validity of constructions will not, as a rule, be expected, but they may be asked for. Practical geometry : The constructions shown in the appended schedule, A, 1-7. Theoretical geometry: See appended Schedule B. The facts stated in the following theorems, together with riders on them, but without formal proofs of the theorems —B, 1-11 ; formal proofs of the following theorems, together with riders on them—B, 14-19, 21, 22. Note. —The numbers in the schedules correspond to those in the geometry schedule of the common examination for entrance to public schools, as reprinted from the Cambridge University Ordinances. (5.) French or German, with an oral examination to which importance will be attached. (6.) Latin (easy passages for translation from Latin into English and from English into Latin, and simple grammatical questions). The list of successful candidates will be published in alphabetical order. A certain number of successful candidates who show excellence in the examination, and have also been highly recommended by the interview committee, will receive " honourable mention," and will be distinguished y an asterisk in the list of successful candidates. 10. The Governments of certain dominions and colonies are allowed to recommend specially (through the Secretary of State for the Colonies) a certain number of candidates annually from among boys belonging to families resident in the dominions and colonies. Unless such candidates, however, actually reside and receive their education in their own dominion or colony, they must be also recommended by the interview committee, and must pass the qualifying examination and the medical examination. 11. Naval cadets will undergo a course of instruction in the shore training establishments for a period of four years, of which two years will be at Osborne and the remainder at Dartmouth. On passing out of the College at Dartmouth they will continue their training for a period on board a special training cruiser, and will then be sent to the sea-going fleet as Midshipmen. 12. The following are the approximate dates for the beginning and end of the three terms at the colleges : 16th January to 15th April, Bth May to 6th August, 19th September to 17th December. The vacations at the colleges are as follows : Four weeks at Christmas, three weeks at Easter, six weeks at midsummer. 13. The friends of the cadets must be prepared to receive them during all the vacations. 14. All naval cadets shall be subject to the regulations for the time being in force respecting cadets while at the Eoyal Naval Colleges at Osborne and Dartmouth and on board the training cruisers. 15. For all cadets entering under these regulations, payment will be at the rate of £75 per annum for the period under training at the colleges, to be paid in sums of £25 every term in advance to the Cashier of the Bank of England on receipt of claim from the Accountant-General of the Navy. But the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty reserve the power of selecting from among the cadets entered at each examination a limited number, being sons of officers of the Navy, Army, or Marines,

* Note. Copies of the papers set at the examinations held in each year are printed by the Oxford and Cambridge Schools Examination Board, and may be obtained on application to the Secretary of the Admiralty free of charge. It should be noted, however, that the questions in papers set under these regulations will be slightly more advanced than those set prior to September, 1913, in consequence of the age of entry being raised.

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