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No 6387

Thursday 21 May 2015

Vol cxlv No 31

pp. 538–586

Regulations for examinations

Computer Science Tripos

(Statutes and Ordinances, p. 310)

With effect from 1 October 2016

The General Board, on the recommendation of the Faculty of Computer Science and Technology, have approved amendments to the regulations for examination as follows.

Regulation 8.

By adding the following to the list of options for examination:

Units of assessment as determined from time to time by the Faculty Board in accordance with Regulation 6(a).

Regulation 10.

By amending the regulation so as to read:

10. A candidate for Part Ia shall submit a portfolio of assessed laboratory work as prescribed in Regulation 11, and shall offer:

  either

(a)

(i)

Papers 1, 2, and 3 of the Computer Science Tripos; and

(ii)

the examination requirements for the subject Mathematics, as set out in the regulations for Part Ia of the Natural Sciences Tripos;

  or

(b)

(i)

Papers 1 and 2 of the Computer Science Tripos; and

(ii)

the examination requirements for the subject Mathematics, as set out in the regulations for Part Ia of the Natural Sciences Tripos; and

(iii)

either Introduction to psychology (Paper PBS 1 of Part I of the Psychological and Behavioural Sciences Tripos) or the examination requirements for one subject chosen from the list below and as set out in the regulations for Part Ia of the Natural Sciences Tripos:

Chemistry

Earth Sciences

Evolution and Behaviour

Physics

Physiology of Organisms

  or

(c)

(i)

Papers 1 and 2 of the Computer Science Tripos; and

(ii)

Papers 1 and 2 from Part Ia of the Mathematical Tripos.

Regulations 11 and 14.

By amending the regulations so as to require the Head of Department to announce by Notice the nature of laboratory work to be undertaken.

Regulation 13.

By amending the regulation so as to read:

13. A candidate for Part Ib shall submit a portfolio of assessed laboratory work as prescribed in Regulation 14, and shall offer:

(a)Paper 3, unless he or she has already offered Paper 3 under Regulation 10, in which case Paper 7 shall be offered;

(b)Papers 4, 5, and 6.

Regulation 16.

By amending the regulation so as to read:

16. A candidate for Part II shall submit a dissertation as prescribed in Regulation 17, and shall offer:

(a)Paper 7, unless he or she has already offered Paper 7 under Regulation 13, in which case two units of assessment shall be offered, as specified by Notice of the Head of the Department not later than the end of the Easter term next preceding the examination;

(b)Papers 8 and 9.

Regulation 18.

By amending the first sentence of Regulation 18 so as to read:

A student who, under arrangements approved by the Faculty Board of Computer Science and Technology, has spent not less than three terms studying at an institution listed in the Schedule to these regulations and who has been certified by the head of that institution, after consultation with the Chair of Examiners for Part II of the Computer Science Tripos, to have studied diligently during that period, shall be deemed thereby to have obtained honours in that Part of the Tripos and to have kept those terms for the purpose of the regulations for Residence and Precincts of the University.

By inserting a Schedule to the regulations so as to read:

Schedule

Institutions approved by the General Board for the purpose of Regulation 18 (exchange programmes)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Regulation 20.

By replacing the first paragraph of the regulation with the following text:

20. A candidate for Part III shall offer a combination of units of assessment (which may be written papers, project dissertations, essays, and demonstrations of research training) as duly specified by Notice of the Head of the Department not later than the end of the Easter Term next preceding the examination, save that a candidate may not offer any units of assessment already offered under Regulation 16.