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2. Repetition. A short paragraph of the First and Second Readers used
in the school.
3. Writing. From dictation, twenty consecutive characters in the Second
Dictation Book used in the school.
4. Optional Subject (Arithmetic).—Notation up to a million and simple
addition and subtraction.
Value of a pass in the ordinary subjects of this standard; four
dollars; in Arithmetic: seventy-five cents.
STANDARD III.
1. Reading.-A passage not exceeding sixty characters in the Third
Reader used in the school.
2. Repetition. A short paragraph of the First, Second and Third Readers
used in the school.
3. Explanation.--The characters in the passage read.
4. Writing from dictation, forty consecutive characters in the Third Dic-
tation Book used in the school.
5. Optional Subject (Arithmetic).—Multiplication, in addition to the
arithmetic of the previous standard.
Value of a pass in the ordinary subjects of this standard: six
dollars; in Arithmetic: one dollar.
STANDARD IV.
1. Reading.—A passage not exceeding seventy characters in the Fourth
Reader used in the school.
2. Explanation.-Simple phrases in the passage read.
3. Writing. From memory, a passage not exceeding fifty characters in
the book used in the school for that purpose.
4. Composition. -Three antithetical couplets of not more than three
characters each (三對).
5. Geography. The two hemispheres (general outlines).
6. Optional Subject (Arithmetic).-The simple rules.
Value of a pass in at least four of the ordinary subjects of this standard: seven dollars; in Arithmetic: one dollar and a half.
STANDARD V.
1. Repetition. A passage not exceeding eighty characters in the Fifth
Reader used in the school.
2. Explanation. In writing, a passage not exceeding twenty characters
in the same book.
3. Writing. From memory, a passage not exceeding sixty characters in
the book used in the school for that purpose.
4. Composition. Three antithetical couplets of not more than five char-
acters each(五言對).
5. Geography. The Chinese Empire, in addition to the geography of the
previous standard.
6. Optional Subject (Arithmetic.)-Compound rules (Chinese money), in
addition to the arithmetic of the previous standards.
Value of a pass in at least four of the ordinary subjects of this
standard eight dollars; in Arithmetic: two dollars.
STANDARD VI.
1. Repetition.-A passage not exceeding one hundred characters in the
Sixth Reader used in the school.
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