You get two spells, one of which has to be from your specialty school. You'll have to double up or prepare a lower level spell in that slot.
You get two spells, one of which has to be from your specialty school.
Not true. They dropped that part with the last Core Rulebook Errata. You no longer need to include one spell of your speciality school (though it's still a good idea, just not required anymore).
Whaaaaaaaaaat *goes and checks the PRD* ...now there's nothing on levelling up. The whole section is just gone.
No, it's not. It in the magic chapter under "Adding spells to a wizard's spellbook".
Spells Gained at a New Level: Wizards perform a certain amount of spell research between adventures. Each time a character attains a new wizard level, he gains two spells of his choice to add to his spellbook. The two free spells must be of spell levels he can cast.
There used to be one more sentence stating that one of the spells must be of your school. That sentence was dropped with the last errata.
That is bizarre. The Witch page contains adding spells but to find the relevant piece of text for a Wizard you have to look in Magic? Well no wonder I didn't find it when I checked.
Well, I guess the APG didn't have a magic chapter so they had to fit it in the class description of the witch somewhere...
But yeah, it's counterintuitive to say the least.
When you level up a wizard to cast a new level of spells, the book says
you get 2 new spells to add to your spell book. Do you also get one for
your school specialty?
No. You get 2 spells, period. Whether or not one is from your specialty school is up to you.
My wizard leveled to 3 and is of the Evocation school and can cast 3 level
2 spells a day but that would put me one short for prepared spells unless
I double up one.
Yup. Either you need to buy a scroll and scribe another spell into your spellbook, find/steal/borrow another wizard's book to scribe a new spell into your spellbook, wait until 4th-level when you get to pick another 2 spells or, as you said, simply memorize a spell twice to fill your slots.