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No 6457

Wednesday 1 March 2017

Vol cxlvii No 23

pp. 380–392

Regulations for examinations

Natural Sciences Tripos, Part II (Psychology)

(Statutes and Ordinances, p. 399)

With effect from 1 October 2017

The General Board, on the recommendation of the Management Committee for the Natural Sciences Tripos, has approved the amendment of the examination requirements for Psychology under Regulation 30. Paragraph (a) has been amended so as to make Paper 4 an optional paper chosen from a list of subjects published by the Department; and Paragraph (b) has been amended to change the word count of the project from 5,000 to 7,000 words.

By amending the subject Psychology under Regulation 30 so as to read:

Psychology. Each candidate shall offer:

(a)four written papers of three hours each, Papers 1–3 and an Option Paper chosen from a list of subjects published by the Department not later than the division of the Lent Term in the year next preceding the examination, provided that a candidate may submit, in addition to those papers, two copies of an original dissertation of not more than 8,000 words, excluding appendices, footnotes, and bibliography;

(b)two copies of a report of a research project not exceeding 7,000 words, including footnotes but excluding any tables, captions, figures, bibliography, and appendices.

The title of the original dissertation shall be on a subject chosen by the candidate and approved by the Senior Examiner not later than the end of the Michaelmas Term next preceding the examination. Two copies of the original dissertation, if it is offered, shall be submitted to the Senior Examiner not later than the fifth Monday of Full Lent Term proceeding the examination.

The report of a research project shall be on a subject either proposed by the candidate and approved by the Head of Department of Psychology or chosen by the candidate from a list of approved subjects announced by the Head of the Department by the beginning of the Michaelmas Term. The report shall be submitted to the Examiners not later than the tenth day of Full Easter Term in which the examination is to be held.

If a candidate offers four papers and an original dissertation, the Examiners shall assess her or his performance on (i) Paper 1 and (ii) three of the following: Papers 2, 3, the Option Paper, or the original dissertation, discounting the one component out of the four in which they judge the candidate’s work to be least good, providing that no component out of Papers 2, 3, or the Option Paper shall be discounted if it is not of at least a lower second-class standard.