No 6400
Wednesday 21 October 2015
Vol cxlvi No 5
pp. 52–62
Notices by Faculty Boards, or other bodies concerned, of changes to the form and conduct of certain examinations to be held in 2016, by comparison with those examinations in 2015, 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 Computer Science and Technology give notice that, with effect from the examinations to be held in 2016, the form of the examination for the following papers for the Computer Science Tripos will be changed as follows:
Paper 7 will contain 14 questions. These will include a question on Artificial Intelligence II, a question on Principles of Communications, and a question on Hoare logic and Model Checking combined. Candidates will be expected to answer five questions.
Paper 8 will contain 15 questions. These will include a question on Principles of Communications, a question on Artificial Intelligence II, and a question on Types. There will be no question on Temporal Logic and Model Checking. Candidates will be expected to answer five questions.
Paper 9 will contain 15 questions. These will include a question on Principles of Communications, a question on Hoare logic and Model Checking combined, and a question on Advanced Algorithms. There will be no question on Mobile and Sensor Systems. Candidates will be expected to answer five questions.
All other papers remain unchanged. Students are referred to the Faculty website at: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/exams/ for further details.
The paper will be examined through a three-hour unseen written paper (80% of the final mark for Paper 3) and a project on legal methodology (20% of the final mark for Paper 3). The written paper will be divided into two sections, Mathematics (Section A) and Statistics (Section B), and it will contain no fewer than eight questions. Candidates will be required to answer four questions, two from each section.
This is instead of having a written paper divided into three sections (A. Mathematics, B. Statistics, and C. Legal Methodology), with students required to answer two questions out of a choice of three for Sections A and B and one question out of a choice of two for Section C. Sections A and B were weighted at 40% while Section C was weighted at 20%.
The paper will be examined through a three-hour unseen written paper. The paper will contain no fewer than ten questions, of which students will be required to answer four.
This is instead of a two-hour written paper comprising 80% of the final mark and a project comprising 20% of the final mark.