Comprehensive Examinations DESCRIPTION OF EXAMINATIONS Chemistry The examination will be adapted to the proficiency of those who have received systematic instruction in the principles of chemistry and their applications in a school course in which laboratory experiments are performed by the pupil. In order to make due allowance for diversity of instruction in different schools, the paper will contain more questions than the candidate is expected to answer, and will require the recognition of the phenomena and of the laws that are of general significance, and the illustration of such phenomena and laws by well-chosen examples. It will include not only questions on the chemistry of laboratory practice but also, in an elementary fashion, questions on the chemistry of the household and of industry. English The purpose of this examination will be to test the ability of the candidate to define clearly in writing ideas gained both from books and from the life around him, and to read with accuracy and appreciation literature as varied in subject matter and form as that listed under "Uniform Entrance Requirements in English." Accuracy in the technique of writing will be insisted upon, but no paper will be considered satisfactory which does not show, in addition to this accuracy, that the student is able to think for himself and to apply what he has learned to the solution of unexpected problems. Although knowledge of the subject matter of the particular books prescribed in the "Uniform Entrance Requirements in English" is not necessary, yet the requisite ability cannot be gained without a systematic and progressive study of good literature. French The examination will be adapted to the proficiency of those who have studied French in school for two, three, or four years. The paper will include passages of French prose or verse or both of varying degrees of difficulty to be translated into simple and idiomatic English. It will also contain passages in English of varying degrees of difficulty to be translated into French, and questions on grammar. Opportunity will be given to those who have had special training in French to show their ability to express themselves in that language. German The examination will be adapted to the proficiency of those who have studied German in school for two, three, or four years. The paper will include passages of German prose or verse or both of varying degrees of difficulty to be translated into simple and idiomatic English. It will also contain passages in English of varying degrees of difficulty to be translated into German, and questions on grammar. Opportunity will be given to those who have had special training in German to show their ability to express themselves in that language. Greek The examination will be adapted to the proficiency of those who have studied Greek in a systematic school course of five exercise's a week, extending through two or three school years. The paper will include passages of simple Attic prose and of Homer to be translated at sight, and questions, based upon these passages, to afford the candidate means of showing his mastery of the ordinary forms, constructions, and idioms of the language. The paper will also include passages in English to be translated into Greek, and questions on prosody, on the Homeric poems, and on Homeric life. History The paper will consist of five divisions made up of questions on Ancient History, Medieval and Modern History, Modern European History (including English History from 1760), English History, and American History (including Civil Government). The questions on each division will be partly prescribed and partly optional. If the candidate has studied but one of these divisions, he will be expected to answer the prescribed questions on that division, one of them being a map question. He should spend about two hours on these prescribed questions and should devote the remaining hour to the optional questions on the same division. If, on the other hand, the candidate has studied two or more of these divisions, he will be expected to answer, in addition to the prescribed questions on one of these divisions, questions on only one other division that he may have studied. In reading the papers, account will be taken of the year of the school program in which the subject has been studied. As further evidence of the candidate's proficiency, note-books 1 may be submitted. 1 Latin The examination will be adapted to the proficiency of those who have studied Latin in a systematic school course of five lessons each week, extending through two, three, or four years. 1 The College Entrance Examination Board does not require or receive note-books. Candidates wishing to submit note-books must forward them directly to the proper authorities of the university, college, or scientific school concerned. The paper will include passages of Latin prose and verse of varying degrees of difficulty to be translated at sight, and passages for Latin composition of varying degrees of difficulty. Accompanying the different passages set upon the paper will be questions on forms, syntax, and the idioms of the language, as well as questions on the subject-matter, literary and historical, connected with the authors usually read in schools. Each candidate will choose those parts of the paper which are designed to test such proficiency in the language as may properly be acquired in two, three, or four years' study; but a candidate who has studied Latin, four years may not select the more elementary parts of the paper. The proper parts will be indicated on the examination paper. Mathematics The examination will be adapted to the proficiency of those who have had not less than the usual school course in Elementary Mathematics, comprising Algebra through Quadratics and Plane Geometry, and will also provide the means by which those who have extended their study to one or more branches of Advanced Mathematics, namely, Solid Geometry, Logarithms and Trigonometry, and Advanced Algebra, may exhibit their proficiency in any or all of these branches of Mathematics. There will be three papers, one for those who wish to offer Elementary Mathematics, one for those who wish to offer both Elementary and Advanced Mathematics, and one for those who wish to offer Advanced Mathematics separately. Every candidate who offers Elementary and Advanced Mathematics together should devote at least half the time to the questions based on the Advanced Mathematics that he has studied. Physics The examination will be adapted to the proficiency of those who have had such a course of school training in the elementary facts and principles of Physics as is described in the detailed definition of Physics. In order to make due allowance for diversity of instruction in different schools, the paper will contain more questions than the candidate is expected to answer. Spanish The examination will be adapted to the proficiency of those who have studied Spanish in school for two, three, or four years. The paper will include passages of Spanish prose or verse or both of varying degrees of difficulty to be translated into simple and idiomatic English. It will also contain passages in English of varying degrees of difficulty to be translated into Spanish, and questions on grammar. Opportunity will be given to those who have had special training in Spanish to show their ability to express themselves in that language. |