Reporter 16/7/03: Medical and Veterinary Sciences Tripos, Part IB

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:

Medical and Veterinary Sciences Tripos, Part IB

(Statutes and Ordinances, p. 338)

With effect from 1 October 2003

The duration of the practical examinations in Neurobiology with Human Behaviour and in Neurobiology with Animal Behaviour in Part IB of the Medical and Veterinary Sciences Tripos has been reduced in each case from two hours to one hour.

Regulation 21.

By amending the regulation so as to read:

21. The examination in each subject of Group A shall consist of one written paper and a practical examination, covering three sections numbered (I)-(III) as specified below.

(a) The examinations in Biology of Disease and in Mechanisms of Drug Action shall each consist of:

(i) one written paper of three hours, which shall contain compulsory short-answer questions (Section I)¹ and essay questions (Section III); candidates will be allowed one hour to complete Section I;

(ii) a practical examination of two hours (Section II).¹

(b) The examinations in Neurobiology with Human Behaviour, and in Neurobiology with Animal Behaviour shall each consist of:

(i) one written paper of two-and-a-half hours, which shall contain compulsory short-answer questions (Section I)¹ and essay questions (Section III);¹ candidates will be allowed one hour to complete Section I;

(ii) a practical examination of one hour (Section II).¹

¹ In each subject of Part IB Sections I and II of the examination also serve as the examination in the corresponding subject of the Second M.B. Examination or the Second Vet.M.B. Examination.

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