How to proceed to secure an examination. SEC. 3. Applicants residing in the Philippine Islands who desire to be examined for the Philippine civil service or for the Federal service in the Philippine Islands may apply by letter or in person to the Bureau of Civil Service, Manila, or to the examining committees at provincial capitals, for a blank form of application for examination and for the Manual of Information. Each applicant should apply for his own application blank and Manual, as it is not the practice to furnish them to one person for the use of another. Applicants residing in the United States who desire to be examined for this service should apply to the United States Civil Service Commission, Washington, D. C., which Commission will furnish all necessary information and hold examinations in the United States at the request of the Bureau of Civil Service. Such applicants should forward their applications when completed to the United States Civil Service Commission. A description of the principal examinations held by the Bureau of Civil Service will be found in this Manual. Applicants residing in the Philippine Islands may be examined in Manila or at provincial capitals, or in Manila only if the exigencies of the service so require. The form of application should first be closely read by the applicant and then filled with great care, every question being answered. Full instructions for the filling in and completion of the application will be found on the blank itself, and applicants are cautioned to conform in all respects to the printed instructions. Failure to do this will cause unnecessary delay and annoyance to the applicant as well as to the Bureau of Civil Service. The application must be subscribed and sworn to before an officer duly authorized to administer oaths. The oath may be administered in Manila without charge therefor by an examiner of the Bureau of Civil Service. If the oath is executed in the Philippine Islands, the affiant's cedula must be exhibited to the officer administering the oath, who must record the date, number, and place of issuance of the same on the lines provided therefor, and a 20-centavo documentary revenue stamp must be affixed and canceled. The vouchers must be filled by reputable persons who have been personally acquainted with the applicant for a period of at least six months. After the application has been properly completed and executed it should be brought or forwarded to the Bureau of Civil Service, or to the provincial examining mittee. If the application is found correct in form and is approved, a card of admission will be issued, informing the applicant when and where he may be examined. .com Applications for examination may be obtained and filed at any time, but unless received at least one week prior to the date fixed for an examination in Manila, or in sufficient time prior to the holding of an examination in provincial capitals to permit of the shipment of papers to those points, they may not be accepted for that examination; but, if properly executed and approved, a card of admission will be sent to the applicant for the next examination of the kind to be held at the place selected. Foreign-born persons claiming to be citizens of the United States must furnish proof of such citizenship. If naturalized, the final certificate of naturalization must accompany the application. An application will not be accepted from a person who has taken out only his first papers of naturalization unless he is otherwise eligible. An application from a foreign-born person claiming citizenship, but failing to furnish the required proof, will be disapproved. When naturalization papers are lost, a certificate showing the facts in the case must be procured from the court that issued the naturalization papers. A foreign-born person who has been honorably discharged from the Army or Navy or Marine Corps of the United States will be examined if his discharge is submitted with his application and he is otherwise eligible. No person will be admitted to examination unless he has filed with the Bureau of Civil Service the required application. An applicant who has applied for examination and desires to change the place of his examination from one city to another city where examinations are regularly held may be examined at the place requested by him if he returns his card of admission within sufficient time prior to the date of examination to permit of the shipment of the necessary papers. An application is good for only one grade of examination, and if an applicant desires to take two or more different grades he must file an application for each grade. See section 62 for regulations governing reëxamination. Information for enlisted men of the United States Army serving in the Philippines. SEC. 4. Enlisted men of the United States Army will not be admitted to examination unless permission of the proper military authorities to enter the examination is submitted to the Bureau of Civil Service with the application. The completed application on the printed form supplied by the Bureau of Civil Service should therefore be forwarded through military channels to the Adjutant-General, Philippines Division, accompanied by a letter requesting permission to be examined. In this connection attention is called to the fact that the military authorities will not grant permission to be examined for the purpose of appointment in the Philippine civil service to enlisted men who have more than six months to serve to complete their enlistment. Permission for examination with a view to appointment in the Federal civil service is sometimes granted to enlisted men who have more than six months to serve. Persons who are debarred from examinations. SEC. 5. No person will be admitted to an examination— (a) Who is under 18 or over 40 years of age, unless, in the discretion of the Bureau of Civil Service, the needs of the service require that the age limits be extended for a particular kind of examination. These age limitations however do not apply to appointment to the positions of apprentice and messenger. (b) Who is not a citizen of the United States unless he has been honorably discharged from the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps of the United States: or who is not a native of the Philippine Islands or who has not, under and by virtue of the treaty of Paris, acquired the political rights of natives of the Islands. This limitation may be waived with the approval of the Governor-General. (c) Who fails to take the oath of loyalty required of all applicants for examination in the Philippine Islands and to furnish satisfactory evidence that he is loyal to the United States of America as the supreme authority in the Islands, or who has taken the oath of allegiance to the United States and violated it. (d) Who, upon physical examination, is found to be disqualified for efficient service. (e) Who uses intoxicating liquors to excess. (f) Who is an officer or an enlisted man in the Army, the Navy, or the Marine Corps of the United States, or in the Philippines Constabulary, and has not filed with his application written permission from proper authority to enter an examination. (g) Who has been guilty of delinquency or misconduct which in the opinion of the Director of Civil Service should disqualify him for the service. (See sec. 7, Civil Service Rule II, and sec. 6, Rule XII.) (h) Who has intentionally made a false statement in any material fact, or practiced or attempted to practice any deception or fraud in securing his examination, registration, or appointment. (i) Who has failed to receive absolute appointment at the end of his probationary service for the position for which he again applies within one year from the expiration of the period of his probationary service. (j) Who within six months has taken the same kind of examination for which he again applies and is eligible as a result of that examination or who within six months has failed with a rating of less than 65 per cent. (See sec. 62.) (k) Who has been guilty of collusion in examination within one year preceding the date of his application. What applicants should bring to the examination room. SEC. 6. All applicants in examinations where writing is required must provide themselves with pens, penholders, erasers, ink, and blotters. Applicants should not bring paper for use in the examination room, as such blank and scratch paper as may be needed in connection with the examination sheets will be furnished. Applicants for the stenography and typewriting examinations should provide themselves with typewriting machines and stands or tables. Applicants for the bookkeeper, draftsman, or any other examination requiring the use of instruments must furnish the instruments required. Each applicant must bring his card of admission to the examination room and present it to the examiner in charge. Haste and carelessness in examinations. SEC. 7. Many competitors fail to pass an examination or fail to obtain a satisfactory rating not through lack of knowledge but principally owing to failure to follow the directions printed on each sheet and to haste and carelessness in reading and interpreting questions and in writing the answers. With few exceptions, the time used by a competitor in completing a subject is not an element in determining the ratings. While a competitor must finish his examination within the time allowed, he should carefully, thoughtfully, and completely answer each question. The time allowed for each examination is considered sufficient for competitors to complete it by using a reasonable degree of intelligent application in their work, and it can not be extended in individual cases, as, for instance, where a competitor devotes so much time to the work of one subject that he can not complete the remaining subjects within the prescribed time. Regulations governing competitors in examinations. SEC. 8. The following is a copy of the regulations furnished to each competitor at the beginning of an examination: 1. In order that the identity of competitors may not be disclosed until after the examination papers are rated, you will be given an examination number which you will write, instead of your name, on each sheet of the examination. Do not sign your name to any sheet in the examination, except the sealed declaration sheet. 2. Unless otherwise stated, you are not limited in time on any sheet, but should gauge your work on each sheet so as to complete the examination within the limit of time prescribed for the entire examination. Time is reckoned from the moment of receiving examination sheet number one. No allowance will be made for time lost in or out of the examination room unless time is allowed for lunch when the examination is more than six hours in length. 3. Do not leave the room, if possible to avoid it, with a sheet before you unfinished, for if you do the sheet will be taken up and will not be returned to you. A competitor in an examination of six hours or less is not allowed to leave the room until he has finished his examination, except in case of extreme necessity. No competitor shall leave the room at any time without permission of the examiner. 4. Read carefully the printed instructions on each sheet before commencing work thereon. 5. If necessary, the back of a sheet may be used to complete your work, unless directions to the contrary are printed on the sheet. 6. An examination sheet spoiled by you can not be exchanged for another of the same kind. 7. Perform all work on each examination sheet with ink. 8. Pencil and scratch paper may be used in preliminary work, except in the spelling exercise, which must be written with ink directly on the examination sheet from the dictation of the examiner. 9. Use no scratch paper except that furnished by the examiner in charge, and on completing an examination sheet hand in the scratch paper pertaining to that sheet. Have all your work complete on the examination sheets, however, as the scratch paper is collected, not for consideration in rating, but for destruction. 10. No helps of any kind are allowed. Before the examination is commenced hand to the examiner any written or printed matter that you may have which might, if used, aid you in your work. Do not make a copy of any of the questions for the purpose of taking them from the examination room. 11. All conversation or communication between competitors during the examination is strictly prohibited. 12. Do not copy or attempt to copy from the work of any competitor or permit any competitor to copy from your work or to read the examination sheets in your possession. 13. All necessary explanations will be made to the whole class. Examiners are forbidden to explain the meaning of any question or to make any remarks or suggestions that may assist in its solution. 14. Copies of examination papers or examination questions must be handed in with the answers and must not be taken from the room. N. B.-A violation by you of the instructions contained in paragraphs 10, 11, or 12 will be deemed sufficient cause for canceling your papers and for refusal to admit you to any other examination. You are requested to report to the examiner any irregularity that may come under your notice during the examination. Provincial examining committees have been given specific instructions fully advising them how to conduct examinations properly. Descriptions of examinations. SEC. 9. A description of some of the examinations which are held by the Bureau of Civil Service is given below. As an aid to applicants in arriving at a proper understanding of the scope of the different examinations, specimen questions and exercises are given in the following pages. These particular questions and exercises will not, of course, be again used in the examination of applicants, but are intended simply to show the degree of difficulty of the subjects in the different examinations. Each examination comprises tests on several subjects, which are given relative weights according to their importance. The weight of a subject therefore represents its value in the whole examination. The method of obtaining the rating of a competitor in an examination is as follows: Multiply the per cent obtained in each subject (on the basis of 100 per cent for perfection) by the relative weight of that subject, add the products, and divide the sum of the products by the sum of the relative weights. The quotient thus obtained will be the rating in the examination. A different method, however, is followed in connection with the assistant and teacher examinations, which is explained in sections 14 and 31. NOTE. A competitor in any examination in which tests in translating are not included may, at his option, be examined also in translating from English into Spanish or from Spanish into English. The tests in translating will be similar to those in the translator or the junior translator examination, as the competitor may elect. Appropriate notation will be placed on the eligible registers and on certifications of eligibles opposite the names of those competitors who obtain a rating of 70 or more in the translating tests. GENERAL EXAMINATIONS. SEC. 10. There are three grades of general clerical examinations, the subjects of which are also used as general tests in many other examinations: (1) The first grade, (2) the second grade, and (3) the third grade. The first grade is the most difficult and the third grade the least difficult of the three. First grade examination. SEC. 11. Time allowed, six hours. Application Form No. 2. The entrance salary varies according to the requirements of the position to be filled and the experience and ability of the eligibles. This examination comprises the following subjects and weights: 10 15 6. History and government of the United States, and geography. 7. Experience and training Total 100 The following are specimen questions and tests in this examination: Spelling. The words in spelling are dictated by the examiner and are required to be written by the competitor in the blank spaces indicated on the first sheet of the examination. The examiner pronounces each word and gives its definition. The competitor is required to write only the word and not its definition. The words should begin with capital letters. 1. Asylum: A charitable institution; as, an asylum for the deaf, dumb, etc. 2. Strychnine: A poison obtained from certain plants. 3. Souvenir: A memento or keepsake. 4. Seizing: The act of taking or grasping suddenly. 5. Changing: Causing a change; as, changing a schedule. 6. Physical Relating to physics or nature; as, physical geography. 7. Concede: To give up or surrender; as, to concede a point. 63834 -2 |