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No 6251

Wednesday 18 January 2012

Vol cxlii No 16

pp. 382–399

Form and conduct of examinations, 2011–12

Notices by Faculty Boards, or other bodies concerned, of changes to the form and conduct of certain examinations to be held in 2011–12, by comparison with those examinations in 2011, are published below. Complete details of the form and conduct of all examinations are available from the Faculties or Departments concerned.

Philosophy Tripos, 2012

The Faculty Board of Philosophy give notice that, with effect from the examinations to be held in 2012, the form of the examinations for certain papers will be changed as follows:

Part Ia

Paper 5. Essay

The rubric for the paper has been amended so as to read:

Write a philosophical essay on one of the following topics. Your essay must not overlap substantially with the content of any other essay that you have submitted as part of this examination.

Part Ib

Paper 9. Essay

The rubric for the paper has been amended so as to read:

Write a philosophical essay on one of the following topics. Your essay must not overlap substantially with the content of any other essay that you have submitted as part of this examination (whether as an extended essay or as an answer to a question on a Tripos paper).

Part II

Paper 12. Essay

The rubric for the paper has been amended so as to read:

Write a philosophical essay on one of the following topics. Your essay must not overlap substantially with the content of any other essay that you have submitted as part of this examination (whether as an extended essay/dissertation or as an answer to a question on a Tripos paper).

Full details of the examination can be found in the Faculty’s Guide to Courses at http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/u_grads/u_grads_intro.html

Final Veterinary Examination, Part III, 2012

The Faculty Board of Veterinary Medicine gives notice that, with effect from the examination to be held in 2012, the form of the examination for the following written papers of the Final Veterinary Examination Part III will be changed as follows:

Small Animal Studies, Equine Studies, Farm Animal Studies: the number of short answer questions shall be 10 questions of 12 minutes each (12 marks each) instead of 12 questions of 10 minutes each (10 marks each).

All other parts of the examination remain unchanged.

Full details of the examination are available at http://cuvsweb.vet.cam.ac.uk/cambridge/curr/ (Raven password access only).