No 6501
Wednesday 28 March 2018
Vol cxlviii No 25
pp. 465–495
Notices by Faculty Boards, or other bodies concerned, of changes to the form and conduct of certain examinations to be held in the Easter Term 2018, approved exceptionally following recent industrial action, 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 the History of Art gives notice that, exceptionally, the form of certain papers for the examinations to be held in 2018 for the Architecture Tripos will be changed as follows:
Candidates shall answer three questions, not more than two questions from any section [instead of not more than one question from any section].
Candidates shall answer three questions, not more than two questions from any section [instead of not more than one question from any section].
Candidates shall answer all questions from Section A and any three questions from Sections B, C, and D, including at least one question from Section B [instead of one question from each of Sections B, C, and D].
Candidates shall answer three questions, not more than two questions from any section [instead of one question from each section].
All other written papers remain unchanged.
The changes to examinations set out above have been approved by the Faculty Board of Architecture and the History of Art following consultation with the Examiners, having had due regard to the extent of disruption to teaching as a result of recent industrial action.
The Committee of Management for the Natural Sciences Tripos, in consultation with the Board of History and Philosophy of Science, gives notice that, exceptionally, the form and conduct of certain papers for the examinations to be held in 2018 have been amended as follows:
The number of written papers available for examination in option (B) will increase from ten to thirteen. The number of papers a candidate is required to answer remains the same.
The number of questions on the examination paper will be increased as follows:
Paper 45 Philosophy and ethics of medicine: the number of questions in both Section A and Section B will increase from 6 to 7;
Paper 65 Early medicine (also HST2): the number of questions will increase from 12 to 15;
Paper 66 Modern medicine and biomedical sciences: the number of questions will increase from 12 to 15.
The number of questions a candidate is required to answer remains the same.
The Faculty Board of Education gives notice that, exceptionally, for the examinations to be held in 2018, the form and conduct of the examination in Education for the degree of Master of Philosophy will be changed as follows:
Essay 2 will be marked as pass/fail only and not contribute
towards the final mark.
As a result, the final grade for the degree is taken to be
the marks for Essay 1 and the thesis.
All other parts of the examination remain unchanged.
Full details of the examination can be obtained from the course handbook, which is available on the Moodle platform.