APPENDIX B.

UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN LOCAL EXAMINATIONS AND HIGHER CERTIFICATE

FOR WOMEN.

These Examinations have now been discontinued.

APPENDIX C.

EXAMINATIONS FOR THE CIVIL SERVICE OF INDIA.

REGULATIONS.

N.B.--The Regulations are liable to alteration from year to year.

1. An Examination for admission to the Civil Service of India, open to all qualified persons, will be held in London in August of each year for such number of appointments to that Service as the Secretary of State may on each occasion determine. The date of Examination and the number of appointments to be made for each province will be announced beforehand by the Civil Service Commissioners.

2. No person will be deemed qualified who shall not satisfy the Civil Service Commissioners :

(i.) That he is a natural-born subject of His Majesty.
(ii.) That he had attained the age of twenty-two and had
not attained the age of twenty-four, on the first
day of August of the year in which the Examina-
tion is held.

[N.B.-In the case of Natives of India it will be necessary for a Candidate to obtain a certificate of age and nationality issued under Notification of the Government of India and signed, should he be a resident in British India, by the Secretary to Government of the Province, or the Commissioner of the Division within which his family resides, or should he reside in a Native State, by the highest Political Officer accredited to the State in which his family resides.]

(iii.) That he has no disease, constitutional affection, or bodily infirmity unfitting him, or likely to unfit him, for the Civil Service of India.*

(iv.) That he is of good moral character.

* The Civil Service Commissioners will regard no person as constitutionally fitted for appointment to the Civil Service of India who has not been satisfactorily vacci nated within the last seven years.

3. No person who, in a previous year, accepted the offer of a nomination as a selected candidate for the Civil Service of India and subsequently resigned his position as a selected candidate, will be admitted to the Examination.

4. Should the evidence upon the above points be primâ facie satisfactory to the Civil Service Commissioners, the Candidate, on payment of the prescribed fee, will be admitted to the Examination. The Commissioners may, however, in their discretion at any time prior to the grant of the Certificate of Qualification hereinafter referred to, institute such further inquiries as they may deem necessary; and if the result of such inquiries, in the case of any Candidate, should be unsatisfactory to them in any of the above respects, he will be ineligible for admission to the Civil Service of India, and, if already selected, will be removed from the position of a probationer.

5. The Open Competitive Examination will take place only in the following thirty-eight subjects:

English Composition

Sanskrit Language and Literature

Arabic Language and Literature

Greek, not less than two sub-divisions, of which one must be Trans

Maximum

Marks.

500

800

800

Latin, not less than two sub-divisions, of which one must be Trans

German, Translation, Composition and Conversation

400

200

200

300

600

400

200

400

200

400

200

German, History of the Language and Literature

The History of these Languages and their Literatures can only be taken by Candidates who also offer themselves for the rest of the examination in those languages.

Lower Mathematics...

Higher Mathematics

...

... 1,200

.1,200

Natural Science, i.e., any number not exceeding four of the following, or three if both Lower and Higher Mathematics be also taken :

Roman History (Ancient, including Constitution)

English History, either or both sections may be taken :

600

600

600

600

500

500

400

400

500

600

600

600

500

500

500

From the marks assigned to Candidates in each subject such deduction will be made as the Civil Service Commissioners may deem necessary in order to secure that no credit be allowed for merely superficial knowledge.

Consistently with the limitations specified above, Candidates are at liberty to name any of these subjects, provided that the maximum number of marks that can be obtained from the subjects chosen is limited to 6,000. If this maximum is exceeded by a candidate's selection he will be required to indicate one of his subjects, the marks for which should, in his case, be reduced so as to bring his maximum marks within the prescribed limit. The marks so reduced will be subject to a correspondingly reduced deduction.

Moreover, if a Candidate's handwriting is not easily legible, a further deduction will, on that account, be made from the total marks otherwise accruing to him.*

6. A list of the competitors shall be made out in order of their proficiency as disclosed by the aggregate marks finally awarded to each competitor, and in that order so many competitors, up to the determined number of appointments, as are found by the Civil Service Commissioners to be qualified by examination, shall be designated to be Selected Candidates for the Civil Service of India, provided that they appear to be duly qualified in other respects. Should any Selected Candidate become disqualified, the Secretary of State for India will determine whether the vacancy thus created shall be filled or not. In the former case the Candidate next in order of merit, and in other respects duly qualified, shall be deemed to be a Selected Candidate.

It is notified for general information that the number of marks deducted for bad handwriting may be considerable.

7. Selected Candidates before proceeding to India will be on probation for one year, at the end of which time they will be examined, with a view of testing their progress in the following compulsory subjects:

1. Indian Penal Code

2. Code of Criminal Procedure

3. The Indian Evidence Act

4. Indian History

5. The principal Vernacular Language of the Province to
which the Candidate is assigned.

Marks.

400

200

200

400

400

The principal Vernacular Language prescribed for each Province to which Candidates are assigned is as follows:

For the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, the Punjab

Hindustani.
Bengali.

Hindustani.
Burmese.
Marathi.

(Unless it is the Candidate's mother tongue.)

(At the option of the Candidate.)

Tamil or Telugu.

In Hindustani the Candidate will be required to be acquainted with both the Persian and the Nagari character.

A Candidate assigned to Bengal or Assam, whose mother tongue is Bengali, must offer for examination Hindustani; a Candidate assigned to Bombay, whose mother tongue is Marathi, must offer for examination Hindustani; and a Candidate assigned to Madras, whose mother tongue is either of the languages shown against his Province, must offer the other for examination..

8. Selected candidates may in addition offer in the Final Examination one of the following optional subjects:

No candidate who offered Sanskrit or Arabic at the open competition may offer the same language at the Final Examination; and only candidates assigned to the Province of Burma may offer Hindustani as an optional subject..

9. In the Final Examination, as in the open competition, the merit of the Candidates examined will be estimated by marks (which will be subject to deductions in the same way as the marks assigned at the open competition), and the number set opposite