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II. VERY important regulations came into effect in 1848. The examination, as thus constituted, underwent no further alteration till 1873, and the first three days remain practically unchanged at the present time. The duration of the examination was extended from six to eight days, the first three days being assigned to the elementary and the last five to the higher parts of mathematics. After the first three days there was an interval of eight days (soon afterwards increased to ten), and at the end of this interval the Moderators and Examiners issued a list of those who had so acquitted themselves as to deserve mathematical honours. Only those whose names were contained in this list were admitted to the five days, and after the conclusion of the examination the Moderators and Examiners, taking into account the whole eight days, brought out the list arranged in order of merit. No provision was made for any further examination corresponding to the examination of the Brackets, which, though forming part of the previous scheme, had been discontinued for some time. A very important part of the scheme was the limitation, by a schedule, of the subjects of examination in the first three days, and of the manner in which the questions were to be answered; the methods of analytical geometry and differential calculus being excluded. In all the subjects contained in this schedule, examples and questions arising directly out of the propositions were to be introduced into the papers, in addition to the propositions themselves. Taking the whole eight days, the examination lasted 44½ hours, 12 hours of which were devoted to problems.
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The Mathematical Tripos 1 . Nature 35, 153–157 (1886). https://doi.org/10.1038/035153a0
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