2. Credits are assigned to the students for their ordinary manipulations in chemistry and physics, during the first year; and at the close of each year, for their manipulations, in chemistry alone, before the examiners. 3. The _répétiteurs_ examine, (in the _interrogations particulières_,) every ten or fourteen days, from six to eight students during a sitting of two hours, on the subject of study lectured on since the previous examination of the same kind. All these students must continue present, and at the close the _répétiteur_ assigns to each a previous examination of the same kind. All these students must continue present, and at the close the _répétiteur_ assigns to each a credit entirely dependent on the manner in which each has replied. The professors and captains inspectors are occasionally present at these examinations, which are discontinued at certain periods according to the instructions of the director of studies. 4. At different intervals of time, from a fortnight to a month, as may happen, after the close of the course in each branch of study, general examinations (_interrogations générales_) are made by the professors and _répétiteurs_. From four to six students are examined together for at least two hours, and at the conclusion the professor makes known to the director of studies the credit he has granted to each student for the manner in which he has passed his examination. Such may be called the minor or ordinary examinations. But there is an annual closing examination at the end of each year, which we will now describe. The first year’s annual examination commences on the 1st and ends on the 25th September. It is carried on by special examiners, (a different set from those who conduct the entrance examinations,) and not by the professors. These give to every student a credit between 0 and 20 in each branch of study, according to the manner in which he replies. The following table shows the co-efficients of influence allowed to the different studies of the first year, subdivided also among the particular classes of examination to which the student has been subjected. The component parts of the co-efficients as well as the co-efficients themselves, slightly vary from year to year, dependent on the number of examinations:-- TABLE I.--FIRST YEAR’S COURSE OF STUDIES: SECOND DIVISION. [KEY] TC Total Co-efficients. (_repeated_) WA Written Answers to Professors’ Questions. ER Examinations by _Répétiteurs_. (_Int. Part._) GE General Examinations. (_Int. Gen._) Man. Manipulations. O Ordinary. Ex At Examination. SN Sheets of notes on descriptive Geometry. GD Graphical Representations and Drawing. 1st First Annual Examination.