1984
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No. 10 of 1911.
UNIVERSITY,
of the entrance examination of the University. The subjects and conditions of the entrance examination to the University shall (until the Council shall otherwise prescribe) consist (save for exemption therefrom as above set out and subject to the Agreement made between the University and the Hongkong College of Medicine dated the 12th March, 1912) of the subjects and conditions set out in the Schedule to this Statute. The Council may on a recommendation made by any Board of any Faculty and approved by the Senate prescribe any special subjects for examination for students of any Faculty additional to those comprised in the entrance examination above referred to and may also prescribe the standard of such additional subjects.
The Schedule above referred to.
The subjects prescribed for the entrance examination are as follows :-
I.-English including Reading, Dictation, Composition, Grammar, Analysis; with questions on the general outlines of English History, and on the general outlines of the Geography of Europe and Asia with special reference to the Geography of China.
II.-Latin or Classical Chinese, or other Classical Oriental Language.
Latin-Candidates must pass in (1) Grammar (2) translation of a passage of English prose (3) translation into English of an unprepared passage (4) either (a) additional unprepared translation or (b) Virgil Aeneid I, II or (c) Cæsar de Bello Gallico III, IV or (d) Cicero, in Catilinam I, II or (e) any two of the above mentioned books.
Classical Chinese :-Candidates must pass in (1) translation from English into Chinese; and (2) Chinese into English, prepared work, Mencius I to IV.
III.-Mathematics.
(1) Arithmetic.
(2) Algebra up to and including the Binomial Theorem.
(3) Geometry including the subject matter of Euclid Books I, II and III, with easy deductions.
IV. One Optional subject: Greek, French, German, a modern Chinese dialect, or other modern Language. (Grammar and easy translation from and into English.)
A candidate shall be required to pass in I, II and III at one and the same time but may pass the Optional subject, IV, separately.
A candidate, who has obtained in all the four subjects a number of marks equivalent to the sum of the marks required for a pass in each, may be allowed a pass in the whole examination; provided that in no single subject he has obtained less than half of the marks required for a pass, and that the pass-mark be reached in the English Paper.
* As amended by G.N.181 of 1912.
1984
*
No. 10 of 1911.
UNIVERSITY,
of the entrance examination of the University. The subjects and con- ditions of the entrance examination to the University shall (until the Council shall otherwise prescribe) consist (save for exemption therefrom as above set out and subject to the Agreement made between the University and the Hongkong College of Medicine dated the 12th March, 1912) of the subjects and conditions set out in the Schedule to this Statute. The Council may on a recommendation made by any Board of any Faculty and approved by the Senate prescribe any special subjects for examination for students of any Faculty additional to those comprised in the entrance examination above referred to and may also prescribe the standard of such additional subjects.
The Schedule above referred to.
The subjects prescribed for the entrance examination are as follows :- 1-English including Reading. Dictation, Composition, Grammar, Analysis; with questions on the general outlines of English History, and on the general outlines of the Geography of Europe and Asia with special reference to the Geography of China.
II.-Latin or Classical Chinese, or other Classical Oriental Language.
Latin-Candidates must pass in (1) Grammar (2) translation of a passage of English prose (3) translation into English of an unprepared passage (4) either (a) additional unprepared translation or (b) Virgil Aeneid I, II or (c) Cæsar de Bello Gallico III, IV or (d) Cicero, in Catilinam I, II or (e) any two of the above mentioned books.
Classical Chinese :-Candidates must pass in (1) translation from English into Chinese; and (2) Chinese into English, prepared work, Mencius I to IV.
III.-Mathematics.
(1) Arithmetic.
(2) Algebra up to and including the Binomial Theorem.
(3) Geometry including the subject matter of Euclid Books I, II and III, with easy
deductions.
IV. One Optional subject: Greek, French, German, a modern Chi- nese dialect, or other modern Language. (Grammar and easy transla- tion from and into English.)
A candidate shall be required to pass in I, II and III at one and the same time but may pass the Optional subject, IV, separately.
A candidate, who has obtained in all the four subjects a number of marks equivalent to the sum of the marks required for a pass in each, may be allowed a pass in the whole examination; provided that in no single subject he has obtained less than half of the marks required for a pass, and that the pass-mark be reached in the English Paper.
* As amended by G. N. 181 of 1912.
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