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Or the totals may be given as under :

As accuracy is the principal object of these exercises (A), which the master will be able to multiply as much as he pleases, it should be the first consideration in awarding marks, but quickness and neatness should also be considered.

Exercises (C).

As there can be no valuable order without accuracy, that quality should receive most consideration in awarding marks for these exercises (C). The quality of next importance is clearness both in writing and arrangement, and then quickness. Though placed last, quickness is of great value. The latter exercises are specially designed to train the eye to pick out and arrange, without other mechanical aid; so that, though pupils should not be precluded from making memoranda or rough copies, the

highest marks should be given to those who perform them without, or with the least of, such help; provided, of course, that the other requirements already named are satisfied―viz. accuracy, clearness, and quickness.