Form and Conduct of Examinations, 2009–10

Notices by Faculty Boards, or other bodies concerned, of changes to the form and conduct of certain examinations to be held in 2009–10, by comparison with those examinations in 2009, are published below. Complete details of the form and conduct of all examinations are available from the Faculties or Departments concerned.

Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic Tripos, Part II, 2010

The Faculty Board of English give notice that, with effect from the examinations to be held in 2010, the form of the examination for the following paper for Part II of the Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic Tripos will be changed as follows:

Paper 4. A subject in Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic History: Law and lawlessness

The examination paper will consist of a three-hour written examination. The paper will be divided into three sections: (a) gobbets; (b) essay questions relating to specific geographical areas; (c) comparative questions, requiring an answer which compares at least two geographical areas. Candidates will be expected to answer four questions from a choice of at least twelve. Question 1 (Section a) is compulsory and contains gobbets for comment. Three essay questions must be attempted from Sections b and c; at least one question must be attempted from each section. Each question will be worth 25% of the marks.

All other papers remain unchanged. Full details of the examination can be obtained in the course description, copies of which can be found in the Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic Common Room or obtained from Dr Fiona Edmonds.

Education Tripos, Part II, 2010

The Faculty Board of Education give notice that with effect from the examinations to be held in 2010 the form of the examination for the following papers for Part II of the Education Tripos will be changed as follows:

Section II: Advanced topics in education

These papers have all changed this year as under the new Education Tripos regulations there are no longer two routes with differing rubrics (as there were under the old Education Studies Tripos).

Paper 1 The psychology of education

Three-hour examination. There are four sections: (a) the psychology and neuroscience of cognition; (b) the psychology of inclusion; (c) the social psychology of prejudice; (d) positive psychology. Candidates are required to answer two questions, each from a different section.

Paper 2 The philosophy of education

Three-hour examination. There are at least ten questions. The paper is undivided. Candidates answer three questions.

Paper 3 The sociology of education

Three-hour examination. There are two sections: (a) Education and social inequality in post-war Britain; (b) Social exclusion in contemporary Britain. There are at least eight questions in Section (a) and at least eight questions in Section (b). Candidates answer three questions, which must include one from each section.

Paper 4 The history of education

Three-hour examination. There are four sections: (a) Contexts and approaches; (b) Cultural histories; (c) 1919–59 ‘The age of extremes’; (d) Oral history and educational lives. Candidates answer three questions, each from a different section.

Section III: Special subjects in education: New papers

Paper 6a Children and literature

Course-work (30% of final grade). Candidates will submit a 3,000-word essay on an agreed subject of their choice within the field of children’s literature.

Two-hour examination paper (plus 15 minutes reading time) (70% of final grade). The examination paper will be divided into three sections with questions as follows: (a) a piece of unseen text taken from a work of children’s literature requiring practical criticism; (b) a number of quotations taken from literary criticism requiring an analytical essay; (c) open questions requiring an essay that refers to a set text studied on the course. There will be at least six choices for Section (a), ten choices in Section (b), and four choices in Section (c).

Paper 6b Creativity and thinking

Course-work (30% of final grade). Candidates will submit:

•an original piece of work imaginatively designed to engage and challenge young readers/audiences. The work may be designed to address young readers/audiences primarily within an aesthetic, cognitive, or affective domain. This project may be worked on in collaboration with a small group of young people;

•a 1,500-word justification of this piece of work, including critical reflection on the process of its creation and links with ideas about the nature of creativity and thinking more generally.

Two-hour examination paper (70% of final grade). The examination paper will be divided into two sections: (a) the philosophy of creativity; (b) the practices and politics of creativity in education. Candidates will be required to answer two questions, taking each from a different section.

Paper 6c Educational inclusion and diversity

Three-hour examination paper. The paper will be divided into three sections: (a) Wellbeing; (b) Education, violence, and conflict; (c) Belonging – cultures of inclusion and exclusion. Candidates answer three questions, one from each section.

Engineering Tripos and Manufacturing Engineering Tripos, 2010

The Faculty Board of Engineering give notice that the form of the examinations to be taken in the Easter Term 2010 shall be as follows. Arrangements for reading time before the examination starts, and for papers not mentioned below, are as for last year.

Engineering Tripos, Part IA

Lecture course	Paper (and suggested format)
Mechanical engineering	Paper 1
Thermofluid mechanics and heat transfer	Section A (4 short questions and 2 long questions)
Mechanics and mechanical vibrations	Section B (4 short questions and 2 long questions)
Structures and materials	Paper 2
Structures	Section A (4 short questions and 2 long questions)
Materials	Section B (4 short questions and 2 long questions)
Electrical and information engineering	Paper 3
Linear circuits and devices	Section A (3 short questions and 2 long questions)
Digital circuits and information processing	Section B (3 short questions and 1 long question)
Electromagnetics	Section C (2 short questions and 1 long question)
Mathematical methods	Paper 4
Michaelmas Term material	Section A (3 short questions and 2 long questions)
Lent/Easter Term material	Section B (3 short questions and 2 long questions)
Computing	Section C (2 short questions)

Engineering Tripos, Part IB

Examination	Number of questions
Paper 1 – Mechanics	6
Paper 2 – Structures	6
Paper 3 – Materials	6
Paper 4 – Thermofluid mechanics
Thermofluid mechanics	6
Paper 5 – Electrical engineering
Linear circuits and devices	2
Electrical machines	3
Electromagnetic fields and waves	2
Paper 6 – Information engineering
Linear systems and control	3
Communications, and signal and data analysis	3
Paper 7 – Mathematical methods
Vector calculus	3
Linear algebra and probability	3
Paper 8 – Selected topics
Paper 8 is divided into eight sections:
Section A: Introductory business economics	2
Candidates are required to answer one question only.
Sections B–H:
Section B: Civil and structural engineering	3
Section C: Mechanics, materials, and design	3
Section D: Aerothermal engineering	3
Section E: Electrical engineering	3
Section F: Information engineering	3
Section G: Engineering for the life sciences	3
Section H: Manufacturing, management, and design	3

For Papers 1–3: Candidates are required to answer not more than four questions, which may be taken from either section.

For Papers 4, 6, and 7: Candidates are required to answer not more than four questions. The questions should be from two sections only and not more than two questions should be answered from either section.

For Paper 5: Candidates are required to answer not more than four questions and must answer at least one question from each section.

For Paper 8: Candidates who are not offering a foreign language as an option are required to answer four questions, taken from only two of sections B–H. Not more than two questions from each section may be answered.

Candidates who are offering a foreign language as an option are required to answer not more than two questions from one of sections B–H.

Paper 8 will be of two and a half hours’ duration, or of one and a half hours’ duration in the case of candidates who are offering a foreign language.

Engineering Tripos, Part IIA

Single module examinations will last one and a half hours. Double module examinations (3A1 and 3A3) will last three hours. There will be ten minutes of ‘reading time’ before each module (including double modules). Candidates should present themselves in the examination room fifteen minutes before the advertised start time of each paper. Late arrivals disturb other candidates: please arrive in plenty of time.

The Examiners will take into account course-work done by candidates according to the scheme published by the Faculty Board.

Standard databooks, as newly issued at the beginning of this academical year, will be available at all examinations. Where additional data sheets or databooks were provided for a particular course they will be attached to the relevant examination paper.

Candidates will be allowed to take into the Examination Hall only officially marked calculators as set out in the notice concerning calculators published by the Faculty Board on 5 August 2009 (Reporter, 2008–09, p. 1054).

In the working of all questions and in the evaluation of numerical quantities candidates should show a sufficient number of steps to allow the Examiners to make a proper assessment of their answers.

	Module title	Written paper (p); course-work (c)	Number of questions on the paper	Number of questions to be attempted
3A1	Fluid mechanics I (double module)	p	8	5
3A3	Fluid mechanics II (double module)	p	8	5
3A5	Thermodynamics and power generation	p	4	3
3A6	Heat and mass transfer	p	4	3
3B1	Radio frequency electronics	p	4	3
3B2	Integrated digital electronics	p	4	3
3B3	Switch-mode electronics	p	4	3
3B4	Electric drive systems	p	4	3
3B5	Semiconductor engineering	p	4	3
3B6	Photonic technology	p	4	3
3C1	Materials processing and design	p	4	3
3C5	Dynamics	p	5	3
3C6	Vibration	p	4	3
3C7	Mechanics of solids	p	4	3
3C8	Machine design	P	4	3
3C9	Fracture mechanics of materials and structures	p	4	3
3D1	Geotechnical engineering I	p	4	3
3D2	Geotechnical engineering II	p	4	3
3D3	Structural materials and design	p	4	3
3D4	Structural analysis and stability	p	4	3
3D5	Water engineering	p	4	3
3D6	Environmental geotechnics	p	4	3
3D7	Finite element methods	p	4	3
3E1	Business economics	p	4	2
3E2	Marketing	p	4	2
3E3	Modelling risk	p	4	2
3E5	Human resource management	p	4	2
3E6	Organizational behaviour and change	p	4	2
3E10	Operations management for engineers	p	4	2
3F1	Signals and systems	p	4	3
3F2	Systems and control	p	4	3
3F3	Signal and pattern processing	p	4	3
3F4	Data transmission	p	4	3
3F5	Computer and network systems	p	4	3
3F6	Software engineering and design	p	4	3
3G1	Introduction to bioscience	p	Section A: 1	1
			Section B: 4	2
3G2	Mathematical physiology	p	4	3
3G3	Introduction to neuroscience	p	4	3
3G4	Medical imaging and 3-D computer graphics	p	Section A: 2	1
			Section B: 2	1
			Section C: 2	1
3G5	Biomaterials	p	4	3
3I1	Data structures and algorithms (CST)	p	Section A: 1	1
			Section B: 3	2
4C4	Design methods	p and c	4	3
4D8	Pre-stressed concrete†	p and c	Section A: 2	1
			Section B: 3	2
4M12	Partial differential equations and variational methods	p	4	3
4M13	Complex analysis and optimization†	p	4	3
4M16	Nuclear power engineering	p	4	3
			Section A: Complex analysis
			Section B: Optimization

† The written papers for Modules 4D8 and 4M13 will be divided into sections as follows:

4D8	Section A questions have weighting of 50% Section B questions have weighting of 25%
	Both sections may contain questions on any relevant topic
4M13	Section A Section B	Complex analysis Optimization

 

Engineering Tripos, Part IIB

Each candidate will be required to offer eight modules in total and undertake a project. All modules will carry equal weight, whether assessed by written paper or course-work, or by a combination of written paper and course-work. Where a module is assessed by written paper and course-work, the course-work will carry weight equal to one quarter of a module. In the exceptional case of a dissertation being submitted in place of a module, the dissertation will carry weight equal to one module. The project will carry marks equal to six modules.

For module 4C7 only, candidates may bring into the examination room notes on the module they have written personally by hand, and any notes authorized for use in the examination room by the module leader. This includes lecture notes issued by the module lecturers.

Candidates should refer to the Faculty Board’s Notice, published on 5 August 2009 (Reporter, 2008–09, p. 1054), on the use of calculators in examinations and should consult the main notice to candidates on display in the Inglis Corridor, Department of Engineering, for further details of the examination.

Form of written papers

Number/title/method of assessment (written paper (p), course-work (c))		Number of questions on the paper	Number of questions to be attempted
4A3	Turbomachinery I (p and c)	3	2
4A8	Environmental fluid mechanics (p)	4	3
4A9	Molecular thermodynamics (p)	4	3
4A10	Flow instability (p)	4	3
4A11	Turbomachinery II (p and c)	3	2
4A12	Turbulence (p)	4	3
4A13	Combustion and IC engines (p)	4	3
4B2	Power microelectronics (p)	4	3
4B5	Nanotechnology (p and c)	5	3
4B6	Solid state devices and chemical/biological sensors (p)	4	3
4B7	VLSI design, technology, and CAD (p and c)	5	3
4B11	Photonic systems (p)	4	3
4B14	Solar-electronic power: generation and distribution (p and c)	4	3
4B15	Advanced telecommunications networks (p and c)	3	2
4B18	Advanced electronic devices (p)	5	3
4B19	Renewable electrical power (p)	4	3
4C2	Designing with composites (p and c)	4	3
4C3	Electrical and nano materials (p)	5	3
4C4	Design methods (p and c)	4	3
4C6	Advanced linear vibrations (p and c)	4	3
4C7	Random and non-linear vibrations (p and c)	4	3
4C8	Applications of dynamics (p and c)	4	3
4C9	Continuum mechanics (p and c)	3	2
4C15	MEMS: design (p and c)	4	3
4C16	Advanced machine design (p and c)	3	3
4D5	Foundation engineering (p and c)	4	3
4D6	Dynamics in civil engineering (p and c)	4	3
4D7	Concrete and masonry structures (p and c)	4	3
4D8	Pre-stressed concrete (p and c) †	5 (2 in Section A, 3 in Section B)	3 (1 in Section A, 2 in Section B)
4D9	Plates and shells: theory and computation (p and c)	4	3
4D10	Structural steelwork (p and c)	4	3
4D11	Building physics (p and c)	4	3
4D14	Contaminated land and waste containment (p and c)	4	3
4F1	Control system design (p and c)	3	2
4F2	Robust multivariable control (p and c)	3	2
4F3	Nonlinear and predictive control (p)	4	3
4F5	Advanced wireless communications (p)	4	3
4F6	Signal detection and estimation (p)	4	3
4F7	Digital filters and spectrum estimation (p)	4	3
4F8	Image processing and image coding (p)	4	3
4F10	Statistical pattern processing (p)	5	3
4F11	Speech and language processing (p)	4	3
4F12	Computer vision and robotics (p)	5	3
4G1	Computational and systems biology (p)	3	3
4I5	Nuclear materials (p)	3	2
4M6	Materials and processes for microsystems (MEMS) (p and c)	4	3
4M12	Partial differential equations and variational methods (p)	4	3
4M13	Complex analysis and optimization (p) †	4	3
4M15	Sustainable energy (p and c)	3	2
4M16	Nuclear power engineering (p)	4	3

† The written papers for Modules 4D8 and 4M13 will be divided into sections as follows:

4D8	Section A questions have weighting of 50% Section B questions have weighting of 25%
	Both sections may contain questions on any relevant topic
4M13	Section A Section B	Complex analysis Optimization

Manufacturing Engineering Tripos, Part I

There will be six written examination papers, as follows:

Paper 1 (single module)	Materials into products
Paper 2 (single module)	Production machines and systems
Paper 3 (double module)	Operations management; Industrial engineering
Paper 4 (double module)	Organizational behaviour; Managing business and people
Paper 5 (double module)	Financial and management accounting; Industrial economics, strategy, and governance
Paper 6 (single module)	Contemporary issues in manufacturing

Candidates take all six papers. Single module papers are each worth 60 marks; double module papers are each worth 120 marks.

In addition to the six examination papers, candidates take Module 3P3 (Design) which is assessed by course-work only. 60 marks are available for this paper.

The examinations for Papers 1 and 6 will each last one-and-a-half hours. Candidates will be expected to answer three questions on each paper. The examination for Paper 2 will last one-and-a-half hours. Candidates will be expected to answer two questions. The examinations for Papers 3, 4, and 5 will each last three hours. Candidates will be expected to answer four questions on each paper.

Paper 1 contains four questions; candidates are expected to answer three questions. Paper 2 is divided into two sections. Section A (Operation of production machines and systems) contains two questions; candidates are expected to answer one question. Section B (Control of production machines and systems) contains two questions; candidates are expected to answer one question. Paper 3 is divided into two sections each containing two questions; candidates are expected to answer both questions in each section. Paper 4 is divided into three sections. Section A (Organizational behaviour) contains four questions; candidates are expected to answer two questions. Sections B and C (Managing business and people) each contain two questions; candidates are expected to answer one question from each section. Paper 5 is divided into four sections each containing two questions; candidates are expected to answer one question from each section. Paper 6 is divided into three sections each containing one question; candidates are expected to answer all questions.

The Examiners will take into account course-work done by candidates as follows:

Major project:	140 marks
CAD/CAM exercise:	50 marks
Production game:	50 marks

Manufacturing Engineering Tripos, Part II

There will be two written papers, each marked out of 100 marks, totalling 200 marks. Candidates take both papers.

The examinations for each paper will last three hours. Each paper will comprise six questions. Candidates will be expected to answer four questions on each paper.

There will be five module assessments, each marked out of 20 marks, totalling 100 marks. The following modules are assessed: Assembly and electronics engineering, Component engineering, Process manufacture, Human resources, and Marketing and business policy.

The Examiners will take into account course-work done by candidates as follows:

300 marks divided as follows:

 

Manufacturing systems and robot lab:	45 marks
One two-week industrial assignment:	35 marks
One four-week industrial assignment:	70 marks
Individual long project:	150 marks

English Tripos, 2010

The Faculty Board of English give notice that, with effect from the examinations to be held in 2010, the form of the examination for the following papers of Parts I and II of the English Tripos will be changed as follows:

Part I

Paper 1. English literature and its contexts, 1300–1550 (also serves as Paper 33 in Part II of the English Tripos)

The paper shall be set for three and a half hours. Section A of the examination paper will include a commentary exercise as well as the question requiring translation of three passages from Middle English. Candidates will be required to answer both questions.

The passages for commentary and translation will be as follows:

Commentary:

Either William Langland, The Vision of Piers Plowman (the B Text), ed. A. V. C. Schmidt, 2nd edition (London, 1995), passus XVIII–XIX.

Or Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde, ed. B. A. Windeatt (Harmondsworth, 2004), or in The Riverside Chaucer, gen. ed. Larry D. Benson (Oxford, 1987), Book 2, lines 1–931.

Translation: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, ed. J. R. R. Tolkien and E. V. Gordon, revised N. Davis (Oxford, 1967), lines 1998–2530.

Sections B and C of this paper, and all other papers, remain unchanged.

Part II

Group B(ii)

Paper 10. Postcolonial and related literatures

The paper will be divided into two sections. Candidates must answer Section A and two questions from Section B.

In questions where a quotation is attributed to an author or refers to a country, candidates are not obliged to refer to that author or country in their answers. Comparative and incidental reference to British, Irish, American, and foreign-language texts is welcome but should not constitute the greater part of any single answer. Answering on texts in translation is permitted but should not constitute the greater part of answers to the paper as a whole.

Candidates are not permitted to use the same material twice, either in this paper or in the examination as a whole.

Group D

Paper 33. English literature and its contexts, 1300–1550 (also serves as Paper 1 in Part I of the English Tripos)

See under Part I.

Sections B and C of this paper, and all other papers, remain unchanged.

Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos, 2010

The Faculty Board of Modern and Medieval Languages give notice that, with effect from the examinations to be held in 2010, the form of the examinations for certain papers for the Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos will be changed as follows:

Part Ia

Paper It. 1. Italian texts and contexts

Candidates will be required to answer three questions. Each question must be from a different section.

Paper ITA3. Introduction to Italian Language, 3. Texts and contexts

Candidates will be required to answer three questions. Each question must be from a different section.

Part Ib

Paper It. 3. Italian modernism

Candidates will be required to answer question 1 and any two other questions. Candidates must show knowledge of four or more of the set texts or topics for the paper.

Paper Sp. 4. Topics in modern Spanish culture and history

Candidates will be required to answer three questions. Candidates will be required to refer to at least two texts or authors for each question. Candidates may not draw substantially on the same material for more than one answer.

Part II

Paper Sp. 9. Spanish literature, thought, and history, after 1820

Candidates will be required to answer three questions. There will be four questions per topic. Candidates will be required to refer to at least two texts or authors for each question. Candidates may also refer to literary texts, films, and other works of art. Candidates may not draw substantially on the same material for more than one answer. Candidates may not draw substantially on material from their dissertations or material that they have used or intend to use in another scheduled paper.

Paper CS 6. European film

Candidates will be required to answer three questions relating to three different modules. There will be three questions for each module taught in a given year. Each answer should show knowledge of films from two or more language areas, including English. Candidates’ scripts as a whole must show knowledge of cinema from two or more of the paper’s five specified language areas (French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish). Candidates may not draw substantially on the same material for more than one answer.

All other papers will remain unchanged. Details of each paper can be found on the Faculty’s website, http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/.

Philosophy Tripos, 2010

The Faculty Board of Philosophy give notice that, with effect from the examinations to be held in 2010, the form of the examinations for certain papers and for the dissertations in Part II for the Philosophy Tripos will be changed as follows:

Part Ib

Paper 5. History of modern philosophy

Candidates are asked to answer three questions out of at least fifteen set.

Part II

Dissertation

A dissertation must be of not more than 8,000 words and (except with the permission of the Chair of Examiners) not less than 6,000 words in length, including footnotes and appendices but excluding bibliography.

Paper 1. Metaphysics

Candidates are asked to answer three questions. Candidates also taking Paper 9 may not answer questions in this paper on Wittgenstein’s Tractatus which will be marked with an asterisk (*). The paper will be set in such a way that there are at least ten questions not marked with an asterisk.

Paper 2. Philosophy of mind (reintroduced for 2010)

Candidates are asked to answer three questions. Candidates also taking Paper 9 may not answer questions in this paper on Wittgenstein’s Philosophical investigations, which will be marked with and asterisk (*). The paper will be set in such a way that there are at least ten questions not marked with an asterisk.

Paper 9. Special subject specified by the Faculty Board

In 2010: Wittgenstein. Candidates are asked to answer three questions out of at least ten set. Candidates taking this paper are barred from answering questions on the Tractatus in Paper 1, Metaphysics, and asterisked (*) questions in Paper 2 (Philosophy of mind).

All other papers remain unchanged.

Full details of the examination can be found at http://www.cam.ac.uk/guide/ugcourses/philosophy.html.