The Standards in Education introduced a Revised Code 1862 which was superceeded by the 1872 Revised Code. The local impact if these codes is discussed in the Standard in Education in Worlington .
| Revised Code 1862 | ||
| STANDARD I | ||
| Reading | Narrative in monosyllables | |
| Writing | Form on blackboard or slate, from dictation, letters, capital and small, manuscript. | |
| Arithmetic | Form on blackboard or slate, from dictation, figures up to 20; name at sight figures up to 20; add and subtract figures up to 10, orally, from examples on blackboard. | |
| STANDARD II | ||
| Reading | One of the Narratives next in order after monosyllables in an elementary reading book used in the school. | |
| Writing | Copy in manuscript character a line of print. | |
| Arithmetic | A sum in simple addition or subtraction, and the multiplication table. | |
| STANDARD III | ||
| Reading | A short paragraph from an elementary reading book used in the school. | |
| Writing | A sentence from the same paragraph, slowly read once, and then dictated in single words. | |
| Arithmetic | ||
| STANDARD IV | ||
| Reading | A short paragraph from a more advanced reading book used in the school. | |
| Writing | A sentence slowly dictated once by a few words at a time, from the same book, but not the same paragraph | |
| Arithmetic | A sum in compound rules (money). | |
| STANDARD V | ||
| Reading | A few lines of poetry from a reading book used in the first class of the school. | |
| Writing | A sentence slowly dictated once by a few words at a time, from a reading book used in the first class of the school. | |
| Arithmetic | A sum in compound rules (common weights and measures). | |
| STANDARD VI | ||
| Reading | A short ordinary paragraph in a newspaper, or other modern narrative. | |
| Writing | Another short ordinary paragraph in a newspaper, or other modern narrative, slowly dictated once by a few words at a time. | |
| Arithmetic | A sum in practice or bills of parcels. | |