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NAVAL CADETS.
7. Every Candidate must be in good health, and
free from any physical defect of body, impediment of
speech, defect of sight or hearing, and also from any
predisposition to constitutional or hereditary disease
or weakness of any kind, and he in all respects well
developed and active in proportion to his age. Before
undergoing the QualifyingExamination he is required
to pass the medical examination according to the
prescribed regulations, and must be found physically
fit for the Navy.
It should be particularly noted that full normal
vision— as determined by Snellen's tests— is required.
A memorandum is issued by the Admiralty which
gives details of the physical requirements of Candi-
dates. A Medical Board of Appeal has been in-
stituted to meet cases in which the Parent or
Guardian of a Candidate is not satisfied with the
result of the Official Medical Examination. This
Appeal Board will consist of the Director-Genera)
of the Medical Department of the Navy, a physician
nominated by the Medical Consultative Board, and
a specialist in the particular defect which caused
the disqualification of the Candidate, to be selected
from a list drawn np by the Consultative Board.
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.
-Schedules of
Practical Geometry.
Theoretical Geometry.
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, to-
gether with riders on
them:-B,l4— 19, 21, 22.
rNote,-
' the Geometry are
attached to the
regulations issued,
and may be obtain-
ed on application
to the Admiralty
The numbers ii
the Schedules cor
respond to those
in the Geometry
Schedule of the
Common Examina
tici for entrance to
Public Schools,
reprinted from the
Cambridge Univer
v sity Ordinances.
(5.) French or German, with an oral examin
ation, 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).
In the event of the rejection on medical grounds
of a Candidate who would otherwise have been
selected for the Qualifying Examination, ihe
Parent or Guardian will at once be informed that,
subject to the payment of a fee of four guineas, the
Candidate may present bimseif for re-examination
by the Appeal Board, and that if an appeal is desired
notification must be madft by the Parent or i ful candidates who are highly recommended by the
Guardian to the Director-General of the Medical « interview Committee and who also show excellence
Department. Admiralty, within a week of the first jn tha Examination will receive "Honourable
Medical Examination. The notification must lie : Mention," and will be distinguished by an asterisk
The list of successful Candidates will be published:
in alphabetical order. A certain number of success-
accompanied by a eheoue tor four guineas made
payable to the Accountant General of the Navy.
8. +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 refer-
nce 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).
in the list of successful candidates.
9. 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 resida
i and receive their education in their own Dominion
I or Colony, they must be also recommended by the
' Interview Committee, and must pass the Qualifying
I Examination and the Medical Examination.
10. Successful Candidates who are the sons of
Officers of the Royal Navy, Royal Marines or Army,
who have been filled In action, or have died of
wounds received in action, whether afloat or ashore.
Arithmetic. The simple and compound rules, j or have died thrrugh the destruction ot their ship
avoirdupois weight, linear and square and cubic | or have been drowned or have suffered other violent
measures, the elementary mensuration of rect- | death due directly and wholly to War service, or
angular surfaces and volumes, measure of capac- .have died of disease attributable to active service,,
ity (pints, quarts, gallons), the metric system (the j may be appointed as King's Cadets,
metre, gramme, and litre, with their multiples
and sub multiples),money (includingthe relation- j King's Cadets will be entitled to the following-
ship of the cent to the dollar, and the centime to i privileges in cases where the Admiralty are of
the franc), reduction, factors, the addition, sub- ; opinion that substantial help is needed towards the
traction, multiplication, division and simplifi- j expenses of their Naval training:—
cation of vulgar fractions, non-recurring decimal
fractions, simple proportion, ratio and per-
centage, simple interest.
Algebra. The meaning of algebraic symbols,
substitution of values, easy identities, equations
of the first degree, including simultaneous
equations, verification of the solution of equa-
tions, problems leading to simple equations,
multiplication and division by binomial operator,
easv factors (excluding sum and difference of
cubes), fractions with numerical denominators.
(i.) Geometry. The paper will consist of ques-
tions both on Practical and Theoretical
Geometry.
(1) The grant of an outfit allowance of £40 on-
first entry.
(2) The remission of fees at Osborne and
Dartmouth.
(3) The remission of private allowance and
tuition allowance during his period of service
until he has completed his examinations for the
rank of Lieutenant.
In cases where the above conditions are fulfilled
by Cadets, Midshipmen, or Acting Sub-Lieutenants
already in the Service, the Admiralty may. at their!
discretion, authorise the remission of all future
payments in respect of training fees, privati. allow-
ance, and tuition allowance.
! King's Cadets will be eligible for Compassionate
All Candidates must be provided with a ruler Allowances as prescribed by the Regulations, but
vraduated in inches and tenths and also in centi- will not receive the Educational Allow mice
metres and millimetres, a small set square, a ' authorised by the Order In Council of the 29tB
protractor, pencil compasses, and a hard pencil. ' February, 1916.