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No 6450

Wednesday 11 January 2017

Vol cxlvii No 16

pp. 288–310

Form and conduct of examinations

Notices by Faculty Boards, or other bodies concerned, of changes to the form and conduct of certain examinations to be held in 2017, by comparison with those examinations in 2016, are published below. Complete details of the form and conduct of all examinations are available from the Faculties or Departments concerned.

Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos, Parts Ib and II, 2017

Further to the Notice published on 16 November 2016 (Reporter, 6444, 2016–17, p. 110), the Faculty Board of Modern and Medieval Languages gives notice that, with effect from the examinations to be held in 2017, the form of the examination for the following papers for the Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos will be as specified below.

Part Ib: Correction

Schedule A

FRAV, GEAV, ITAV, PGAV, SLAV, SPAV

(Language) though audio-visual media.

Candidates will be required to answer all questions. The examination will last for ninety minutes. When the exam commences, candidates will have five minutes in which to read the exam questions. After that, the exam clip will be played twice. There will be a five-minute pause in between each playing of the exam clip. Candidates may take notes during the playing of the clip. After the second play-through of the clip, candidates will be told the exact time at which the exam will end and may then write their answers.

(The previous notice omitted to give details of the five-minute pause between each playing of the exam clip.)

Parts Ib and II

SCHEDULE B

Slavonic Studies

Sl. 7. Soviet and Russian cinema

Questions on this paper will no longer be grouped into sections. Candidates will be required to answer three questions. At least one answer must focus on the works of a single director whose films were produced in Russia, the Soviet Union, or one of the republics of the former Soviet Union. At least one answer must be comparative across the works of at least two Russian, Soviet, and/or post-Soviet filmmakers. Candidates must make reference to at least two films in each answer.

Candidates may not draw substantially on material from their dissertations or material which they have used or intend to use in another scheduled paper.

Candidates may not draw substantially on the same material in more than one answer on the same paper.