Reporter 14/1/98: Regulations for examinations: Notice by the General Board: Geographical Tripos, Part II

REGULATIONS FOR EXAMINATIONS: NOTICE BY THE GENERAL BOARD

The General Board give notice that, on the recommendation of the Faculty Board or other authority concerned, the regulations for certain University examinations have been amended as follows:

Geographical Tripos, Part II

The regulations for the Geographical Tripos (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 298) have been amended as set out below. These amendments relate to Part II of the Tripos; their effect is (a) to reduce the number of papers set in the examination from nineteen to fifteen, (b) to reduce the number of papers that candidates are required to offer from five to four, and (c) to increase the maximum permitted length of the dissertation. The regulations have been amended, with effect from 1 October 1998, as follows:

Regulations 20, 21, and 24.

By amending the regulations so as to read:

20. The papers for Part II shall be as follows:

Paper 1.	Human geography I.
Paper 2.	Human geography II.
Paper 3.	A prescribed topic or topics in geography I.
Paper 4.	A prescribed topic or topics in geography II.
Paper 5.	The geography of a prescribed area or areas I.
Paper 6.	The geography of a prescribed area or areas II.
Paper 7.	Historical geography I.
Paper 8.	Historical geography II.
Paper 9.	A prescribed topic or topics in geography III.
Paper 10.	A prescribed topic or topics in geography IV.
Paper 11.	A prescribed topic or topics in environmental geography.
Paper 12.	Physical geography I.
Paper 13.	Physical geography II.
Paper 14.	A prescribed topic or topics in geography V.
Paper 15.	A prescribed topic or topics in geography VI.

21. A candidate for Part II shall offer any four papers from the papers specified in Regulation 20.

24. A dissertation shall be of not less than 8,000 words and not more than 10,000 words in length, and shall be in typewritten form, unless previous permission has been obtained from the Chairman of Examiners through a candidate's Tutor to present the dissertation in manuscript. The dissertation shall be taken into consideration by the Examiners, who shall have power to examine a candidate upon it viva voce.

With effect from the same date, the following supplementary regulation has been approved for Part II of the Geographical Tripos, replacing the existing supplementary regulation for Paper 8 (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 301):

Prescribed topics and prescribed areas: Papers 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 14, 15.

For each of these papers either one or two topics/areas will be prescribed. In a year in which two topics/areas are prescribed, the paper will be divided into two sections, one relating to each of the two topics/areas; candidates will be required to confine their answers to one section.

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