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No 6265

Thursday 10 May 2012

Vol cxlii No 30

pp. 592–601

Regulations for examinations

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:

Second M.B. and Second Vet.M.B. Examinations

(Statutes and Ordinances, pp. 455 and 525)

With immediate effect

The duration of the practical examinations in Neurobiology with Human Behaviour (NHB) and in Neurobiology with Animal Behaviour (NAB) has been reduced in each case from two hours to one hour in line with the requirements for these examinations in Part Ib of the Medical and Veterinary Sciences Tripos.

Second M.B. Degree (New Curriculum Regulations) Regulation 9 and Second Vet.M.B. Degree Regulation 7.

By amending the regulation in each case by removing the examination NHB or NAB from paragraph (a) and inserting it in paragraph (b).

Examination in Education for the M.Phil. Degree

(Statutes and Ordinances, p. 493)

With effect from 1 October 2012

Option B

The limitation of the essay topics to specialist areas of study in education has been removed. Sub-paragraph (b) has accordingly been amended so as to read:

(b) two essays, each of at least 6,000 and not more than 6,500 words in length, on topics specified or approved by the Degree Committee.

Examination in Management Science and Operations for the M.Phil. Degree

(Statutes and Ordinances, p. 503)

With effect from 1 October 2012

Regulation 3.

The scheme of the examination has been amended by renumbering Regulation 3 as 4 and amending the reference in this regulation to Regulation 1 to read as ‘Regulation 1 and 3’, and inserting a new Regulation 3 so as to read:

3. In place of the examination prescribed for thesis specified in Regulation 1(a), the Degree Committee may permit a particular candidate to take three prescribed modules from a list approved by the Degree Committee.