Form and conduct of examinations

Notices by Faculty Boards, or other bodies concerned, of changes to the form and conduct of certain examinations to be held in 2019–20, by comparison with those examinations in 2018–19, are published below. Complete details of the form and conduct of all examinations are available from the Faculties or Departments concerned.

Land Economy Tripos, 2019–20

The Faculty Board of Land Economy gives notice that the form and conduct of the papers for examination in the 2019–20 academic year for Parts Ia, Ib and II of the Land Economy Tripos will be as specified below.

Paper 1A. Economics I
The paper will be examined through a two-hour written paper. The paper will contain no fewer than six questions, of which candidates will be required to answer three.

Paper 1B. Economics II
The paper will be examined through a two-hour written paper. The paper will contain no fewer than six questions, of which candidates will be required to answer three.

Paper 2. The public sector: institutional and legal frameworks
The paper will contain no fewer than eight questions, of which candidates will be required to answer four.

Paper 3. Quantitative and legal methods for land economists
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 will contain no fewer than eight questions. Candidates will be required to answer four questions, two from each section.

Paper 4. Land economy, development and sustainability
The assessment of Paper 4 will comprise a two-hour unseen written paper (65% of the final mark for Paper 4), and a project (35% of the final mark for Paper 4). The written paper will contain no fewer than five questions of which candidates will be required to answer two.

Paper 5. Environmental economics and law
The paper will be examined by means of one three-hour examination. Candidates are required to answer four essay-style questions, comprising two questions from Part A and two questions from Part B. Questions in Part A require candidates to demonstrate their understanding of topics from environmental law, while questions in Part B require candidates to demonstrate their understanding of environmental economics.

Paper 6. Fundamentals of finance and investment
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.

Paper 7. Regional economics and policy
The paper will be divided into two sections, Section A and Section B. The paper will contain no fewer than eight questions and candidates will be required to answer three questions in total, with at least one question to be answered from each section.

Paper 8. Law of real property: principles, policy and economic implications
The paper will contain no fewer than eight questions, of which candidates will be required to answer four.

Candidates will be permitted to use their own copies of Butterworth’s Property Law Handbook (any edition and in one or two volumes), and either Sweet and Maxwell’s Property Law Statutes (any edition) or Blackstone’s Property Law Statutes (any edition).

Paper 9. Private law
The paper will be divided into two sections, Section A (Tort law) and Section B (Contract law). The paper will contain no fewer than ten questions and candidates will be required to answer four questions in total, with at least one question to be answered from each section.

Candidates will be permitted to use their own copies of either Blackstone’s Statutes on Contract and Tort (any edition) or Blackstone’s Statutes on Contract, Tort and Restitution (any edition).

Paper 10. The built environment
The paper will be divided into two sections, Section A and Section B. Each section will contain no fewer than five questions. Candidates will be required to answer four questions, two from each section.

Paper 11. Land and urban economics
The paper will contain no fewer than eight questions, from which candidates will be required to answer three.

Paper 12. Law and economics
The paper will contain no fewer than ten questions, of which candidates will be required to answer four.

Paper 13. Landlord and tenant law
The paper will be divided into two sections. Section A will contain no fewer than four questions on the general 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:

(i)Department of Land Economy and Faculty of Law Landlord and Tenant Statutes (2019–20); or

(ii)Landlord and Tenant Statutes (Pearson, any edition); or

(iii)Butterworth’s Landlord and Tenant Handbook (any edition and in one or two volumes) and either

(1)  Sweet and Maxwell’s Property Law Statutes (any edition), or

(2)  Blackstone’s Property Law Statutes (any edition).

Paper 14. Planning policy and practice
The paper will be divided into two sections, Section A and Section B. The paper will contain no fewer than ten questions and candidates will be required to answer four questions in total, with at least one question to be answered from each section.

Paper 15. Advanced techniques in finance and investment for real estate
The paper will be divided into two sections. Section A will contain no fewer than four empirical or problem-oriented questions. Section B will contain no fewer than four essay-type questions. Candidates will be required to answer four questions, two from each section.

Paper 16. Land, food and ecosystem services
The paper will contain no fewer than ten questions, of which candidates will be required to answer four.

Paper 17. Land policy and development economics
The paper will contain no fewer than ten questions, of which candidates will be required to answer four.

Rules of general application

Duration
All papers will be examined by means of a three-hour unseen written paper unless otherwise specified.

Relative weighting
Unless otherwise specified:

(a)within each paper, all questions will carry equal weight;

(b)within each question, all parts carry equal weight.

Use of Statutes and other materials in examinations
Where materials are allowed, candidates must use their own unmarked copies. Subject to the proviso stated below, any form of marking – including annotations, highlighting, circling and underlining – is prohibited. It is also forbidden to attach anything to or place anything within the permitted materials. However, candidates are permitted to use unmarked transparent tabs (of any colour). For clarification, it is not permitted to use paper post-it notes. The proviso referred to above is that candidates may write their name and the name of their College on the inside front page of any permitted materials.

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.

Use of calculators
The permitted calculators for use in the Land Economy Tripos examinations will be the standard University calculator CASIO fx 115 (any version); CASIO fx 570 (any version); CASIO fx991 (any version) or the Hewlett Packard HP 10BII (including the + version).

Candidates may not bring into the examinations external media associated with any calculator, such as instruction manuals, magnetic cards or memory modules, but they may bring in spare batteries. Candidates are warned that the Examiners are not prepared to make allowances, when marking, for the malfunction of a candidate’s calculator for whatever reason.

Use of dictionaries
Candidates may not bring into the examinations dictionaries of any sort.