Reporter 3/3/99: Economics Tripos, Part II

REGULATIONS FOR EXAMINATIONS: NOTICE BY THE GENERAL BOARD

The General Board give notice that, on the recommendation of the Faculty Board or other authority concerned, the regulations for certain University examinations have been amended as follows:

Economics Tripos, Part II

The regulations for the Economics Tripos (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 259) have been amended as set out below. The purpose of these amendments is (a) to continue for a further year the suspension of Papers 13 and 16 of Part II, for which the Faculty Board are not able to provide teaching in 1999-2000, (b) to require dissertations in Part II to be submitted in typescript, and in duplicate, and (c) to simplify the arrangements for the submission of dissertations in other respects. The regulations have been amended, with effect from 1 October 1999, as follows:

Regulation 15.

By amending the footnote attached to Papers 13 and 16 so as to read:

This paper will not be available in the examination to be held in 2000.

Regulation 23.

By amending the regulation so as to read:

23. (a) A candidate who wishes to offer a dissertation under Regulation 16 shall submit an application to the Secretary of the Faculty Board, specifying the proposed topic of the dissertation. Applications shall be considered by the Examiners; the approval or rejection of a candidate's proposed topic shall be communicated to the candidate. A candidate whose proposed topic is rejected may submit a revised application.

(b) When a candidate's proposed topic has been approved by the Examiners, no change shall be made in it, except that a candidate may subsequently apply for permission to revise the topic.

(c) The timetable for the submission and the approval of applications under sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) shall be announced by the Faculty Board not later than the end of the first quarter of the Michaelmas Term. All applications shall be submitted in accordance with detailed instructions issued by the Board.

(d) A dissertation shall be in English, and shall be of not less than 6,000 words and not more than 10,000 words in length, including notes and appendices but excluding bibliography.¹ Candidates will be required to give full references to sources used.

(e) Two copies of the dissertation, in typewritten or computer-printed form, shall be submitted, in accordance with detailed arrangements approved by the Faculty Board, so as to reach the Secretary of the Faculty Board not later than the first day of the Full Easter Term in which the examination is to be held. Together with the dissertation each candidate shall submit

(i)	two copies of a brief synopsis of the contents of the dissertation, and
(ii)	a declaration signed by the candidate that the dissertation is his or her own work, unaided except as may be specified in the declaration, that it does not contain material which has already been used to any substantial extent for a comparable purpose, and that it does not exceed the maximum permitted length.

(f) The Examiners shall have power to examine a candidate viva voce on the subject of his or her dissertation.

¹ One A4 page consisting largely of charts, statistics, or symbols shall be regarded as the equivalent of 250 words; the contents of such pages must be presented so as to be readily legible.

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