Reporter 5/8/98: Regulations for Examinations: Notice by the General Board

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:

Natural Sciences Tripos, Part III, Geological Sciences

The regulation for the subject Geological Sciences in Part III of the Natural Sciences Tripos has been amended as set out below. The purpose of the amendments is to specify in greater detail the arrangements for this examination, which will be held for the first time in 1999. The regulations for the Natural Sciences Tripos (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 358) have been amended as follows:

Regulation 35.

By amending the paragraph relating to Geological Sciences so as to read:

Geological Sciences. The scheme of examination shall be as follows:

(a) Three written papers shall be set, each of three hours' duration. Each candidate shall offer Papers 1-3, and shall take a practical examination associated with each of Papers 2 and 3, except in the subject area Mineral Sciences, in which no practical examinations are set.

(b) Not later than the first Friday of Full Lent Term each candidate shall submit to the Examiners a report of a research project of not more than 7,500 words, excluding footnotes, on a subject which may be either proposed by the candidate and approved by the Head of the Department of Earth Sciences or chosen by the candidate from a list of approved subjects announced by the Head of the Department. Each candidate shall, not later than the division of the Lent Term in the year next preceding the examination, either obtain the approval of the Head of the Department for the subject proposed or notify the Head of the Department of the subject chosen from the list.

(c) Not later than the first Wednesday of the Full Easter Term in which the examination is to be held each candidate shall submit to the Examiners a number of essays. The Head of the Department shall announce, not later than the first day of Full Lent Term, the number, length, and titles of the essays to be submitted.

(d) On the first day of the written examination each candidate shall submit to the Examiners records of practical classwork. The Examiners shall be provided by the Head of the Department with assessments of this classwork; in assigning marks for the examination the Examiners shall take account of the assessments in Mineral Sciences, and may take account of the assessments in other subjects.

The Examiners may at their discretion examine any candidate viva voce on the subject of the report submitted under (b) and on the general field of knowledge within which it falls.

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