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No 6395

Wednesday 29 July 2015

Vol cxlv No 39

pp. 785–860

Regulations for examinations

Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Tripos, Parts Ib and II

(Statutes and Ordinances, p. 288)

With effect from 1 October 2015

The General Board, on the recommendation of the Faculty Board of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, have approved amendments to the regulations governing Parts Ib and II of the Tripos, in order to clarify that candidates taking Middle Eastern Studies, or Middle Eastern Studies with a Modern Language, may offer no more than two language papers in each Part.

Part Ib

Regulation 19.

(b) Middle Eastern Studies

By amending the first sentence of the regulation so as to read:

Provided that no more than two languages may be offered in total, candidates shall offer:

(c) Middle Eastern Studies with a Modern Language

By amending the first sentence of the regulation so as to read:

Provided that no more than two languages may be offered in total, candidates shall offer:

Part II

Regulation 22.

(e) Middle Eastern Studies

By amending the first sentence of the regulation so as to read:

Provided that no more than two languages may be offered in total, candidates shall offer:

The Faculty Board of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies have confirmed that no candidate’s preparation for the examination in 2016 will be affected.

English Tripos (New Regulations), Part I

(Statutes and Ordinances, p. 338)

With effect from 1 October 2015

The General Board, on the recommendation of the Faculty Board of English, have approved an amendment to the regulations for the Tripos so as to allow fifteen minutes’ reading time for Papers 9A and 9B.

Regulation 14.

By amending the last sentence of the regulation so as to read:

Every paper shall be set for three hours except Papers 1 and 3 which shall be set for three and a half hours, and Papers 9A and 9B which shall be set for three hours and fifteen minutes, to include fifteen minutes’ reading time.

The Faculty Board of English are satisfied that no candidate’s preparation for the examination in 2016 will be adversely affected.

Historical Tripos

(Statutes and Ordinances, p. 347)

With effect from 1 October 2015

The General Board, on the recommendation of the Faculty Board of History, have approved amendments to the regulations to give effect to changes made by Grace 8 of 15 July 2015 to the privileges for Affiliated Students concerning the Historical Tripos.

Regulation 6.

By removing the words ‘as allowed by the Faculty Board’.

Regulation 14.

By replacing the words ‘been given leave by the Faculty Board to take’ with the words ‘the right to take’ in paragraph (a) and by rescinding paragraph (b)(iii).

Regulation 16.

By rescinding paragraph (b)(vi) and renumbering the remaining paragraphs.

Human, Social, and Political Sciences Tripos, Parts IIa and IIb

(Statutes and Ordinances, p. 355)

With effect from 1 October 2015

The General Board, on the recommendation of the Faculty Board of Human, Social, and Political Science, have approved the reinstatement of Paper POL6 for the academical year 2015–16.

Regulation 15.

Politics and International Relations

By adding ‘POL6. Statistics and methods’ to the list of papers with a footnote that reads:

Regulation 18(c)(iii).

By amending the paragraph concerning options for candidates in Politics and International Relations as follows (retaining all existing footnotes and repeating the above footnote attached to POL6):

(iii)either one paper chosen from ARC8–33, BAN2–4, BAN6–9, SAN8–12, SOC6–15, Paper 7 or Paper 10 for the subject History and Philosophy in Part II of the Natural Sciences Tripos, or a further paper chosen from POL6, POL10–19.

Land Economy Tripos

(Statutes and Ordinances, p. 365)

With effect from 1 October 2015

The General Board, at the request of the Board of Land Economy, have approved an amendment to the regulations so as to remove the project requirement for Paper 6, which shall instead be assessed by a three-hour examination only.

Regulation 12.

By removing the reference to Paper 6 in the final sentence of the regulation.

Natural Sciences Tripos, Part II

(Statutes and Ordinances, p. 405)

With effect from 1 October 2015

The General Board, on the recommendation of the Committee of Management for the Natural Sciences Tripos, have approved a change to the regulations concerning the examination requirements for Zoology, to remove the requirement for a written paper of two hours’ duration.

Regulation 30.

Zoology

By deleting paragraph (b) and renumbering the remaining paragraphs and references.

Examination in Micro- and Nanotechnology Enterprise for the M.Phil. Degree

(Statutes and Ordinances, p. 537)

With effect from 1 October 2015

The General Board, on the recommendation of the Degree Committee for the Faculty of Physics and Chemistry, have approved a change to the regulations to allow the oral examination, at the discretion of the examiners, to cover the field of any of a candidate’s submitted or examined work, by amending Regulation 3 so as to read:

3. The examination shall include an oral examination on the thesis and, at the discretion of the examiners, on other work submitted by the candidate under Regulation 2(a)–(c) and the general field of knowledge within which they and the thesis fall.