Learning instructions in scribal schools were available for a very young prospective students (5-10 years old students). This elementary instruction took 4 years to complete, and then, they could become apprentices of a tutor in which this advanced level of education elevated their scribal carriers. In the elementary level, pupils received instructions from the tutors while sitting in circle around the tutors. The lessons were implemented in different fashions: reading was recited aloud chantedly, arithmetic was studied mutely, and writing was practiced by copying classical short literacy and the "Miscellanies," a short composition specifically aimed to teach writing.