No 6170
Wednesday 2 December 2009
Vol cxl No 11
pp. 229–252
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.
The Faculty Board of Architecture and History of Art give notice that, with effect from the examinations to be held in 2010, the form and conduct of certain examinations in the Architecture Tripos will be changed as follows:
Courses of lectures are given for these papers during the Michaelmas and Lent Terms. Candidates will be required to submit three essays relating either to Paper 1 or to Paper 2 and to submit their choice to the Departmental Secretary no later than the division of the Lent Term 2010. Candidates may not sit an examination in a paper for which they have offered essays. The three essays will be marked by an Examiner or Assessor and the marks will be averaged and recorded as the mark for the relevant paper.
All other papers remain unchanged. Full details of the examination can be obtained from the Faculty Office.
In the Lent Term a course of lectures is given covering professional codes of conduct, health and safety legislation, introduction to laws on contract and types of building procurement, how to run an architecture practice, basic planning law, and the legislative framework for architecture practice. The examination consists of a three-hour written examination and the examination paper consists of three sections: a mandatory section requiring a short definition or explanation of certain key terms, and three further sections from each of which candidates must answer one question.
During the course of the academical year, candidates for Part II of the Architecture Tripos follow a course entitled Architectural engineering, at the end of which a Design Project is submitted. In the academical year 2009–10 this course-work will be submitted on the first day of the Lent Term, 12 January. There is no examination for this subject; it is marked entirely on course-work. The mark awarded for the Design Project is recorded as the mark for Paper 4.
The Faculty Board of Economics give notice that, with effect from the examinations to be held in 2010, the form of the examination for the following papers for the Economics Tripos will be changed as follows:
The examination will be divided into two sections with a reduction in the number of questions set in both sections. Section I requires candidates to answer one out of three questions instead of five; and Section II requires candidates to answer two out of four questions instead of five. Each section will carry equal weight.
As in previous years, the examination will be divided into Section A and Section B. Each of the two sections will now be sub-divided into three sub-sections of Linear algebra, Statistics, and Calculus. In Section A there will be a total of nine questions, three in each sub-section. Candidates will be required to answer a total of six questions, with at least one question from each sub-section. In Section B there will be a total of six questions, two in each sub-section. Candidates will be required to answer one question in each sub-section.
The choice of questions in this examination is reduced with candidates being required to answer four out of eight questions, instead of four out of ten.
The examination will be divided into three sections, instead of two. Section A contains Corporate finance; Section B contains Money and banking; and Section C contains Finance and asset pricing. Candidates will be required to answer four questions, one out of three questions in Section A, one out of three questions in Section B, and two out of four questions in Section C. The sections will are weighted as: Section A (Corporate finance) 25%, Section B (Money and banking) 25%, Section C (Finance and asset pricing) 50%.
The examination will be divided into two sections, as previously. Both sections will have a choice of questions. Candidates will now be required to answer six out of eight questions in Section A, and two out of four questions in Section B. Each section will carry equal weight.
The Faculty Board of Land Economy give notice that, with effect from the examinations to be held in 2010, the form of the examination for the following papers for the Land Economy Tripos will be changed as follows:
The paper will be examined through a three-hour written paper. The paper will be divided into three sections: A (microeconomics), B (macroeconomics), and C (welfare economics). Candidates will be required to answer four questions with at least one from each section and one other question from any of the sections. The paper will contain no fewer than ten questions.
The assessment of Paper 3 will comprise a three-hour unseen paper (70% of the final mark for Paper 3), a project comprising an accounting component (10% of the final mark for Paper 3) and a take-home statistical component (20% of the final mark for Paper 3). The written paper is divided into two sections: Data evaluation (47% of the final mark for Paper 3) and Accounting (23% of the final mark for Paper 3). Candidates will be required to answer five questions. There will be no fewer than six questions in Section A of which candidates will be required to answer four, and no fewer than two questions in Section B, of which candidates will be required to answer one. Candidates will be provided with a list of essential statistical formulae in the examination room.
The paper will be divided into two sections, A and B. Section A will contain no fewer than two questions, of which candidates will be required to answer one. Section B will contain no fewer than eight questions, of which candidates will be required to answer three.
This paper is not offered in 2010.
The paper will be divided into two sections. Section A will contain no fewer than four questions on the common law of leases and of the rights and obligations of the parties to leases. Section B will contain no fewer than four questions on the statutory regulation of residential and business tenancies. Candidates will be required to answer four questions, two from each section.
Candidates will be permitted to use their own copies of Butterworth’s Landlord and Tenant Handbook (any edition and in one or two volumes); or Blackstone’s Statutes on Landlord and Tenant (any edition) AND Sweet and Maxwell’s Property Law Statutes (any edition) or Blackstone’s Property Law Statutes (any edition).
(iii) Use of Statutes and other materials in examinations
Where candidates are permitted to use their own materials, no markings will be allowed in those materials nor will candidates be permitted to attach anything or insert anything within those materials. No spare copies of permitted materials will be available for candidates in the examinations.
Candidates infringing this rule may be required to surrender their copy and may be reported for the infringement. Except for essential valuation tables, candidates who have to surrender their copy will not be provided with replacement material to use in the examination.
Candidates may not bring into the examinations dictionaries of any sort.
The Committee of Management for the Natural Sciences Tripos give notice that, with effect from the examinations to be held in 2010, the form and conduct of certain of the examinations for the Natural Sciences Tripos will be changed as follows:
Candidates must now attempt all questions from Section A (which should now take around 1.5 hours rather than 1 hour) and a maximum of three rather than four questions from Section B (which should now take around 1.5 hours rather than 2 hours).
A new Section E has been added. All questions in Sections B, C, D, and E carry equal marks (instead of in previous years where Section B questions carried different marks to those in Sections C and D).
The assessment of the practical elements in this academical year differs from that in previous years.
There are two components: marks given for practical write-ups (15% of the total mark), and one 1-hour written paper taken in the Easter Term (10% of the total mark).
Nine of the practical classes are deemed submissible: Practicals 3, 4, 5, 6 (Michaelmas Term) 7, 8, 9, 10 (Lent Term), and 13 (Easter Term). Candidates must hand in write-ups for the submissible practicals within seven days of the class to be assessed. The marks for the six highest scoring write-ups will be taken forward as write-up marks to contribute to the final mark.
The written paper will include one question on each of the practical classes, including the non-submissible classes. The questions will require candidates to give a short explanation of a part or parts of the practical exercise. Candidates will be required to answer six questions. A specimen paper will be circulated at the beginning of Easter Term 2010.
The Faculty Board of Divinity give notice that, with effect from the examinations to be held in 2010, the form of the examination for the Theological and Religious Studies Tripos will be changed as follows:
B. New Testament Greek
The examination will consist of three parts, each of which will carry equal value. Part I will require students to translate and expound four short gobbets from the prescribed texts in Greek (out of six). Part II will ask for translation and comment of one longer passage from Mark (out of two). Part III will ask for translation and comment of one longer passage from Galatians (out of two). Copies of the New Testament in Greek will be provided for the use of candidates.
The examination will consist of a three-hour written paper, which will contain selections for comment from the prescribed sources and essay questions. Candidates will be required to comment on three from a choice of ten selections from prescribed sources, and to attempt three essay questions from a choice of at least twelve. NRSV Bibles will be available for use in the examination but candidates are not expected to show greater precision in Biblical references as a result of the availability of Bibles.
The examination will take the form of a three-hour written paper. This will consist of two sections. Candidates will be required to attempt the one question in section A, and three further questions from section B. Section A will contain three passages for comment from the set chapters, of which candidates will be required to attempt two. Section B will contain at least ten essay-type questions, of which candidates will be required to attempt three. NRSV Bibles will be available for use in the examination but candidates are not expected to show greater precision in Biblical references as a result of the availability of Bibles.
B. Greek
The examination for this paper will consist of a three-hour written paper. Candidates will be required to comment on three passages, to include at least two of the set texts, and to attempt one essay question out of a choice of at least three. Copies of the New Testament in Greek will be provided.
This paper will be examined by a three-hour paper, containing no fewer than twelve, and no more than fifteen, questions, divided into two sections. The first section will contain questions on Kant’s critique of religious metaphysics, and on responses to his challenge in a number of key 20th-century philosophical and theological writers. The second section will contain questions on certain classic problems and themes in philosophy of religion (e.g. the problem of evil, arguments for the existence of God, the soul, immortality, freedom and divine providence, time and eternity). Candidates will be required to answer three questions in all, at least one from each of the two sections.
Assessment will be by means of a three-hour unseen examination paper. This will contain at least sixteen essay-type questions, of which candidates will be required to answer four.
The Faculty Board of Biology and the Faculty Board of Clinical Medicine give notice that, with effect from the examination in 2010, the form and conduct of the examination in Social Context of Health and Illness (SCHI) in the Second M.B. Examination (New Curriculum Regulations) will be as follows:
The examination will last ninety minutes, and will examine material covered in the lecture topics and issues raised during the seminars. Candidates will be required to answer two questions from a choice of at least six. Each question will carry equal marks. Specimen questions and advice on what constitutes a good answer will be made available.