1. As soon as practicable after an examination, the papers of the competitors shall be marked and the general average of each ascertained.

2. A competitor after receiving notice that he has passed or has failed to pass, may in person or by duly authorized agent, inspect, in the presence of an examiner, his examination papers, and if in his opinion injustice has in any way been done him, he may within thirty days after the receipt of notice, appeal to the commission, specifying particularly and in detail the cause of the complaint. The commission shall promptly decide all such appeals, and may, in the investigation thereof, direct the re marking of applicant’s papers and change his general average. But no communication from a competitor, explanatory of errors presumed to have been made by him in said examination, shall receive attention.

3. No request to have the papers of a competitor marked out of their order shall be granted.