In order to obtain a teacher's certificate of elementary primary instruction, besides having passed in the branches belonging to the three above-mentioned courses, a revalida examination shall be demanded after having passed the examinations of the last course. In order to obtain a superior teacher's certificate, one is required: 1--to have obtained the mark of excellent in the revalida examinations for the teacher's certificate of elementary primary instruction; 2--to have taken the increased course in pedagogy, and in addition the legislation in force in regard to primary instruction in Filipinas; 3--principles of religion and ethics, universal history, algebra, industry, commerce, and the ordinary phenomena of nature. Art. 5. [Equivalent to Art. 5 of the regulations of 1863; see ante, p. 87.] Art. 6. During the last six months of the third course, the pupils shall have practical experience in teaching, by teaching in the classes of the practice school annexed to the normal school established by article 3. Pupils may not pass from one course to another without proving their fitness in the general examination which shall be held at the end of each year. An extraordinary examination shall be given to the pupils of the third course, who have not for any reason passed in the ordinary examination at the end of the course. Art. 7. The teachers of superior primary instruction may select by competition the término schools of the first and second class; and in the contests which are held they shall be preferred in the management, as regular appointees, of the ascenso schools. Art. 8. The pupils of the normal school, who shall have completed their studies in the elementary course for teachers, having passed their final examinations in proof of their courses, before receiving the teachers' certificates of elementary primary instruction, shall be obliged to stand another examination which shall be called the revalida examination; and in their certificates shall be noted the honorable marks which they shall have merited in said examination. Teachers who shall have obtained the mark of excellent in the revalida examination, shall be empowered to continue their studies, and to become candidates for the superior teacher's certificate, and can also take regular charge of ascenso schools. Those who shall not have obtained the mark of excellent in the revalida examination, but that of good or fair, shall also receive teachers' certificates, with the corresponding note, and shall be empowered to take charge of entrada schools. Those who shall have failed in said examinations, if, after the exercise has been repeated, they merit approval, shall receive certificates as teachers of entrada. Of the pupils of the normal school