Patrick Weston Joyce

How to Prepare for Civil Service Competition, Under the New Regulations Patrick Weston Joyce

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 Excerpt: ...it necessary to consult the examiner about it, make a sign that you wish to speak to him, and he will either come to you or beckon you to him; when, if it be legitimate, he will resolve the doubt for you. A paper of questions usually presents much variety as regards difficulty: while some are very simple, others approach or go beyond the limits of the candidate's knowledge. Tour best plan is to make sure of all the easy questions first, no matter in what order they ocour G on the printed paper; then return on those you have passed, whioh you' should also take in the order of diffioulty, so as to leave the hardest or longest of all for the last. Some oandidates show a lamentable want of method in arranging their answers. You will see a man orowding a dozen answers into one page, and by the time he has got near the bottom, he disoovers an alarming blunder half way up, or it may be, a dash of ink spoils a goc d portion of the writing. He is then obliged to re-write the whole page, and loses perhaps half an hour by one error or a slight mishap. Avoid any approaoh to overorowding your page. Unless the questions are easy and the answers short (as is often the oase with the thirty-nine questions in Arithmetio for instanoe), you should put only one answer on eaoh page; and remember partioularly to write on only one page of a leaf. This will enable you to take the questions in any order you please; and if you have to tear up a wrong answer, you oan do so without destroying any of the others. Even when the answers are short, you should not put more than two, or at most three, on a page, leaving plenty of blank spaoe between, as well as at top and side. That it is best to take the easy questions first, every one knows having any experienoe of examinations. For a sueee...