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No 6398

Wednesday 7 October 2015

Vol cxlvi No 3

pp. 24–37

Notices by Faculty Boards, etc.

Annual meetings of the Faculties

Architecture and History of Art

The Chair of the Faculty Board of Architecture and History of Art gives notice that the Annual Meeting of the Faculty will be held at 1.45 p.m. on Tuesday, 17 November 2015, in the Board Room of the Department of Architecture, 1–5 Scroope Terrace.

Notice of any business for the meeting should be sent in writing to the Secretary of the Faculty Board of Architecture and History of Art, 1–5 Scroope Terrace, to arrive not later than 6 November 2015.

Clinical Medicine

The Chair of the Faculty Board of Clinical Medicine gives notice that the Annual Meeting of the Faculty will be held at 2 p.m. on Monday, 16 November 2015, in the Committee Room, Level 4, School of Clinical Medicine. The business of the meeting will include a report by the Chair.

Divinity

The Chair of the Faculty Board of Divinity gives notice that the Annual Meeting of the Faculty will be held at 3.15 p.m. on Thursday, 12 November 2015, in the Lightfoot Room of the Divinity Building, West Road. The business to be discussed will include the Chair’s report and the election, in accordance with Regulation 1 of the General Regulations of the Constitution of the Faculty Boards (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 570), of two members of the Faculty Board to serve for four calendar years in class (c), from 1 January 2016.

Nominations for the posts in class (c) must be seconded, and the consent of the candidate obtained in advance, and should reach the Administrative Officer, Faculty of Divinity, West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9BS, not later than Friday, 30 October 2015. Notice of any other business to be discussed should reach the Administrative Officer by the same date.

Electronic calculators in University examinations, 2015–16

The Faculty Boards and other authorities concerned give notice that in the following examinations in 2015–16 candidates will be permitted to take a designated calculator into the examination room.

Tripos and qualifying examinations

Architecture Tripos, Parts Ia, Ib, and II

Chemical Engineering Tripos, Parts I, IIa, and IIb

Computer Science Tripos, Parts Ia, Ib, II, and III

(Calculators are not permitted in the Mathematics papers borrowed from either the Mathematical Tripos, Part Ia, or from the Natural Sciences Tripos, Part Ia)

Economics Tripos, Parts I, IIa, and IIb

Engineering Tripos, Parts Ia, Ib, IIa, and IIb

Geography Tripos, Parts Ia, Ib, and II

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

Land Economy Tripos, Parts Ia, Ib, and II

Management Studies Tripos

Manufacturing Engineering Tripos, Parts IIa and IIb

Medical and Veterinary Sciences Tripos, 2nd M.B. and 2nd Veterinary M.B. Examinations

Final M.B. and Final Veterinary M.B. Examinations

Natural Sciences Tripos, Part Ia

(Calculators are not permitted in the Subject Mathematics)

Natural Sciences Tripos, Parts Ib, II, and III

(Calculators are not permitted in the Mathematics papers borrowed from the Mathematical Tripos, Part III)

Philosophy Tripos, Part Ia (Paper 3 only)

Psychological and Behavioural Sciences Tripos, Part I (Paper PBS2 only)
 

Masters and other examinations

Diploma in Economics

M.A.St. in Astrophysics

(Calculators are not permitted in the Mathematics papers borrowed from the Mathematical Tripos, Part III)

M.A.St. in Materials Science

M.A.St. in Physics

(Calculators are not permitted in the Mathematics papers borrowed from the Mathematical Tripos, Part III)

Master of Corporate Law (Accounting and Finance)

Master of Finance

M.B.A. and Executive M.B.A. Examinations

M.Phil. Examination in Advanced Computer Science

M.Phil. Examinations in Clinical Science (Experimental Medicine)

M.Phil. Examinations in Clinical Science (Rare Diseases)

M.Phil. Examination in Computational Biology

M.Phil. Examinations in Economics

M.Phil. Examinations in Epidemiology and in Public Health

M.Phil. Examinations in Land Economy

M.Phil. Examination in Management

M.Phil. Examination in Scientific Computing (Paper 6 only)

For the above examinations the following calculators marked in the approved manner are permitted:

CASIO fx 991 (any version)

CASIO fx 115 (any version)

CASIO fx 570 (any version)

(1) Preliminary Examination for Part I of the Education Tripos and Education Tripos, Parts I and II

Candidates taking papers from the Natural Sciences Tripos will be permitted to use the calculator permitted for that examination (see above).

(2) Geography Tripos, Parts Ia, Ib, and II

The permitted calculators for use in the Geography Tripos will be the standard University calculator CASIO fx 991 (any version), CASIO fx 115 (any version), or CASIO fx 570 (any version); or the CASIO fx 83S or CASIO fx 85S.

(3) Land Economy Tripos

The permitted calculators for use in the Land Economy Tripos will be the standard University calculator CASIO fx 991 (any version), CASIO fx 115 (any version), or CASIO fx 570 (any version); or the Hewlett Packard HP 10BII. Candidates may take only one model of calculator into the examination hall.

(4) Mathematical Tripos

The use of electronic calculators will NOT be permitted in any papers set for the Mathematical Tripos. Candidates for Part Ia of the Mathematical Tripos who offer a paper from the Natural Sciences Tripos will be permitted to use the calculator permitted for that examination (see above).

(5) Medical and Veterinary Sciences Tripos (MVST) Parts Ia and Ib, 2nd M.B., and 2nd Veterinary M.B. Examinations

The permitted calculators for use in the MVST Tripos and 2nd M.B. Examinations will be the standard University calculator CASIO fx 991 (any version), CASIO fx 115 (any version), or CASIO fx 570 (any version); or the CASIO fx 83 (any version) or CASIO fx 85 (any version).

(6) Master of Corporate Law (Financial Management paper)

The permitted calculators for use in the Financial Management examination will be the standard University calculator CASIO fx 991 (any version), CASIO fx 115 (any version), or CASIO fx 570 (any version); or the Texas Instruments BA II Plus or the Texas Instruments BA II Plus Professional. Candidates may only take one model of the calculator into the examination hall.

(7) Master of Finance Examinations

The permitted calculators for use in the Master of Finance Examinations will be the standard University calculator CASIO fx 991 (any version), CASIO fx 115 (any version), or CASIO fx 570 (any version); or the Texas Instruments BA II Plus or the Texas Instruments BA II Plus Professional. Candidates may take only one model of calculator into the examination hall.

(8) M.Phil. Examinations in Land Economy

The permitted calculators for use in the M.Phil. Examinations in Land Economy will be the standard University calculator CASIO fx 991 (any version), CASIO fx 115 (any version), or CASIO fx 570 (any version); or the Hewlett Packard HP 10BII. Candidates may take only one model of calculator into the examination hall.

(9) Other subjects

Papers from the examinations named above may be taken by those who are candidates for other examinations. The restriction on the use of calculators will apply when any paper or subject is offered from an examination which is the subject of this Notice.

It is the responsibility of each student to equip themselves with a suitable calculator as described.

Each such calculator permitted in an examination must be marked by the Department in the approved fashion so that they are clearly identified as being permitted during the examination.

No other calculator may be brought into the examination.

Sale of approved calculators

Approved calculators, marked in the approved fashion, will be on sale from:

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, (Computer Science Tripos)

Department of Chemistry (Natural Sciences Tripos)

Faculty of Economics

Department of Engineering (Engineering Examinations)

Department of Land Economy (Land Economy Tripos and M.Phil.)

Department of Physiology, Development, and Neuroscience (MVST)

Department of Physics, Bragg Building (Natural Sciences Tripos)

Approved calculators bought elsewhere will need to have the approved marking applied by the Department

Geographical Tripos, Parts Ib and II, 2016: Correction

The Faculty Board of Earth Sciences and Geography give notice of a correction to the notice published on 28 May 2015 (Reporter, 6388, 2014–15, p. 599). The titles of the courses offered in 2015–16 have now changed:

Part Ib, Paper 5, Physical and environmental geography I: the title will now be Environmental systems and processes: remote sensing;

Part II, Paper 2, A prescribed topic or topics in human geography II: the title will now be Knowledge, policy, and expertise.