The examination subjects in the case of Tokyo Imperial University, Faculty of Science, Department of Mathematics, were foreign languages, mathematics, mechanics and physics, and in the case of Kyushu Imperial University, Faculty of Engineering, they were mathematics and mechanics, physics and chemistry, and in the case of Kyushu Imperial University, Faculty of Medicine, they were foreign languages (two out of English, German and French), mathematics, physics, chemistry, zoology and botany.
東京帝国大学理学部数学科の場合、外国語、数学、力学、物理であり、九州帝国大学工学部の場合、数学及力学、物理学、化学であり、九州帝国大学医学部の場合、外国語（英独仏ノ内二）、数学、物理、化学、動植物学であった。