No 6331
Wednesday 18 December 2013
Vol cxliv No 14
pp. 237–248
Notices by Faculty Boards, or other bodies concerned, of changes to the form and conduct of certain examinations to be held in 2014, by comparison with those examinations in 2013, are published below. Complete details of the form and conduct of all examinations are available from the Faculties or Departments concerned.
The Faculty of Human, Social, and Political Sciences give notice of a revision to the Form and Conduct Notice for the Human, Social, and Political Sciences Tripos (Reporter, 6327, 2013–14, p. 126). The Notice contained an error in the listing of set texts for 'Paper POL1: Analysis of politics', in section I: Fukuyama, The origins of political order, will not be a set text for 2013–14. This set text will instead be Fukuyama, The end of history and the last man, as shown in the paper guide. The Faculty are satisfied that no student's preparation for the examination will be disadvantaged by this change.
The Committee of Management for the Natural Sciences Tripos give notice that, with effect from the examinations to be held in 2014, the form and conduct of certain of the examinations for the Natural Sciences Tripos will be changed as follows:
The first written paper will carry 25% of the total marks and will last two hours. This paper will cover material which may be taken from any area of the lecture course and will consist of two sections. Section A will be mostly theory questions with all questions worth one mark each. Section B will be mostly data-handling questions with all questions worth three marks each. The questions in this paper will require candidates to choose the best answer from several alternatives. Candidates should answer all questions.The second written paper will last three hours and have five or more essay questions of which candidates should answer four. This paper will carry 60% of the total mark. The practical examination will last one hour and twenty minutes and carry 15% of the total marks. This paper will encompass material from both the experimental and histology practicals, and will be taken in the Department of Physiology, Development, and Neuroscience. The questions will require candidates to choose the best answer from several alternatives. Candidates should answer all questions.
The practical component (25% of the total subject mark) will be changed as follows:
10% of the total subject mark will be awarded for practical write-ups (rather than 15%); 15% of the total subject mark will be awarded for the written practical examination (rather than 10%).
The practical write-ups component will consist of 5% for a formal report on the thematic Rubisco practical, and 5% for lab-book style reports on the weekly practicals (a minimum of five must be submitted; if more are submitted, the best five marks will be taken for assessment).
The written practical examination will be extended to 1.5 hours (from 1 hour) to include a longer structured question on data handling/experimental design. A specimen paper will be available later in the year.
The examination will consist of one three-hour written paper. The paper will consist of six questions with the rubric:
Answer three questions.
Start answering each question on a new sheet of paper. Write on one side of the paper only.
Please tie up the answer to each question separately with its own coversheet.
A sample paper will be available on the Zoology : NSTII 13_14 section of CamTools.
Candidates taking BBS Neuroscience will sit the papers set for Part II Neuroscience (NST2NU) and not those set for Part II Physiology, Development, and Neuroscience (NST2PDN).
The title of the examination subject previously known as 'Experimental and Theoretical Physics' is amended to 'Physics'.
For the two psychology papers, candidates shall offer two of Papers 2, 3, and 4 from the subject Psychology Option (A).
If a candidate offers four papers and a dissertation, the Examiners shall assess her or his performance on:
(i) Paper 1 and (ii) three of the following: Papers 2, 3, 4, or the dissertation, discounting the one component out of the four in which they judge the candidate's work to be least good, providing that no component out of Papers 2, 3, or 4 shall be discounted if it is not of at least second class standard.
Zoology Papers 1 through 4, Biological and Biomedical Science (BBS) Zoology Papers 11/1 through 11/4
The rubric shall now read:
Answer three questions; not more than two from any one Section.
Restrictions apply to modules taught by the Departments of Plant Sciences and Genetics:
Papers 1 and 2, Section I (Dynamics, history, and phylogeny of vegetation)
Papers 3 and 4, Section H (Evolutionary genetics)
You may answer questions from only one of these two sections in the entire examination.
Start answering each question on a new sheet of paper. Write on one side of the paper only.
Please tie up the answer to each question separately with its own coversheet.
Part II Biological and Biomedical Sciences candidates: you should only answer questions on modules taken as your Major Subject. You are not permitted to answer questions on the Conservation Science and Evolutionary Genetics modules if taken as your Minor Subject.
A sample front page will be available on the Zoology : NSTII 13_14 section of CamTools.
Paper 2 will be divided into two Sections. Section I will draw on the overall scope of the Workshops on Methods in Biochemistry and will require the critical evaluation of a short biochemical research article in response to a series of compulsory questions embedded in the text. Section II will contain three questions drawing on the overall scope of the Workshops on Landmark Papers in Biochemistry. Candidates shall answer one question from this section. Each section carries equal marks.
The duration of Paper 2 remains unchanged. All other papers remain unchanged.
The Techniques courses formerly examined in section A of Paper 1 are discontinued.
Section A of Paper 1 of the written examination will now contain questions based on the short (six-lecture) modules, there being one question from each such module. The rubric will read 'Answer any 3 questions from section A'.
The title of the examination subject previously known as 'Experimental and theoretical physics' is amended to 'Physics'.
Paper 3, 'Modelling and analysis of networks', shall consist of a three-hour computer-based examination in which candidates will answer all questions. A specimen paper will be made available to all candidates before the end of the Lent Term. All other parts of the examination remain unchanged.
The Faculty Board of Business and Management give notice of a correction to their Notice of 11 December 2013 (Reporter, 6330, 2013–14, p. 224) concerning the subjects for examination in the Lent Term 2014. All other details remain unchanged.
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Group |
Module |
Assessment |
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MFIN16 |
Topics in investment management (open to M.B.A.) |
Individual assignment (50%); group assignment (50%) |
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MFIN19 |
Private equity |
Three individual assignments (35% in total); three group projects (40%); individual in-class quiz (25%) |