HONOURS EXAMINATIONS

1. The Honours Examinations of the University shall be the examinations for any undivided Tripos, and the examinations for the several Parts and Sections of Triposes which are divided into Parts or Sections or into Parts and Sections. The term Honours Examination shall not include a Qualifying Examination or Preliminary Examination connected with any Tripos.

2. No one who is, or is qualified to be, a member of the Senate, or is, or has been, registered as a Graduate Student shall be a candidate for honours in any Honours Examination.

3. No person shall be a candidate for honours in more than one Honours Examination in the same term.

ALLOWANCES TO CANDIDATES FOR EXAMINATIONS

1. The Council shall have power:

1. (a)to admit to candidature for an examination or for a University Studentship, Scholarship, Exhibition, Prize, or Medal, a person who is not qualified by Ordinance to be a candidate, and
2. (b)to determine that for the purposes of candidature for an examination or competition one or more terms may be disregarded in reckoning the standing of a particular candidate.

2. No person who is not qualified by Ordinance, or under the foregoing regulation, or by special Grace, shall be admitted to an examination leading to a degree, diploma, or certificate, except with the approval of the Council who shall have power to determine the conditions of such admission and the fee, if any, to be paid for such admission. The name of a candidate admitted under this regulation to an Honours Examination shall, if he or she satisfies the Examiners, be published in a separate list under the heading:

The following, who are not candidates for honours, have satisfied the Examiners.

3. The Council, on satisfactory evidence supplied by a candidate's Tutor that the candidate has been hindered by illness or other grave cause in preparing for or taking any University examination, except one for which candidates are required to be Graduate Students or one leading to the M.B., B.Chir. Degrees, or the Vet.M.B. Degree, shall have power, when they think fit.

1. (a)If the candidate has been absent from the whole examination
2.  (i)allow the candidate leave to have disregarded such terms as are necessary in order to put the candidate in standing to take the same examination on a future occasion, as specified by the Council;
3. or(ii)to make the candidate whichever of the following allowances they may consider appropriate:
4.   allow the candidate the examination;
5.   declare the candidate to have attained the honours standard;
6. or(iii)if the candidate is a candidate for Part II, Part IIa or Part IIb of a Tripos, to declare the candidate to have deserved the Ordinary B.A. Degree.
7. or(iv)to put the candidate in standing to proceed as a candidate for another examination, where the candidate would not otherwise be of such standing.
8. (b)If the candidate has been absent from part of the examination
9.  (i)to authorize the Examiners to declare the candidate to have deserved honours or to have deserved to have passed the examination, whichever is appropriate; provided that the Examiners shall not make that declaration unless they judge the candidate to have performed with credit in a substantial part of the examination and unless they either are unable to include the candidate in the list of successful candidates or would otherwise have to award the candidate a class that would in their opinion misrepresent his or her abilities;
10. or(ii)to make the candidate whichever of the allowances specified in (a) they may consider appropriate.
11. (c)If the candidate has attended the whole of the examination and has failed
12.  to make the candidate whichever of the allowances specified in (a) they may consider appropriate.
13. (d)If the candidate has attended the whole or part of the examination and has obtained honours by the inclusion of his or her name in one of the classes
14.  (i)to remove the candidate's name from the class concerned and to declare the candidate to have deserved honours;
15. or(ii)to authorize the Chair of Examiners, or a deputy appointed by the Chair from among the Examiners, to move the candidate's name to a higher class, provided that such an amendment shall not be made unless the Chair of Examiners or deputy, after consulting at least two other Examiners, is satisfied that the candidate has performed at the standard of the higher class in all but a relatively small part of the examination.
16. (e)If the candidate has attended part of the examination and has been declared to have deserved honours in accordance with (b)(i)

to authorize the Chair of Examiners, or a deputy appointed by the Chair from among the Examiners, to include the candidate's name in one of the classes, provided that such an amendment shall not be made unless the Chair of Examiners or deputy, after consulting at least two other Examiners, is satisfied that the candidate has performed at the standard of the class concerned in all but a relatively small part of the examination.

4. When the Council allow a candidate an examination which is an Honours Examination, such a candidate shall thereby have obtained honours therein.

5. The Council shall not, save in exceptional circumstances, normally make an allowance to a candidate for the B.A. Degree of an examination under Regulation 3 on more than one occasion, save that, for the purpose of this regulation, an allowance under Regulation 3(a)(i) shall not be regarded as such an allowance.

6. The names of students to whom the Council make allowances under Regulation 3 (other than under sub-paragraph (b)(i)) shall not be appended to the lists of successful candidates for the examinations for which they were severally entered, but shall be published by the Registrary.

7. Where the regulations for an Honours Examination or for a Preliminary Examination provide for a candidate to submit by a specified date a dissertation, thesis, or essay, either in addition to the written papers or in substitution for one or more of them, the Chair of Examiners or the Senior Examiner may on the application of the candidate’s Tutor grant a brief extension to a specified date by which the work shall be submitted. A dissertation, thesis, or essay submitted later than the date specified by the Chair of Examiners or the Senior Examiner, or in the regulation concerned if no extension has been granted, shall not be accepted.

8. In the case of a candidate who has been declared to have deserved honours under Regulation 3(b)(i) or 3(d)(i), the following statement shall be appended to any certificate issued by the Registrary relating to that examination:

This candidate, who was absent from part of the examination for good cause, performed with credit in a substantial part of it. In accordance with the University's regulations the authorities concerned are of the opinion that it would be unfair to classify the candidate on the basis of the incomplete performance since they believe that this would not adequately represent the candidate's attainment. They have accordingly agreed to declare the candidate to have deserved honours in this examination.

Leave for Allowances to Candidates for Examinations: Notice

The Council has given notice (Reporter, 2010–11, p. 903)1 of the procedure required by it when dealing with applications under these regulations:

1. (i)No application is considered unless it is submitted by the candidate’s Tutor.
2. (ii)An application must state under which regulation or regulations it is made.
3. (iii)An allowance made under Regulation 1(b) or 3(a)(i) is normally granted in respect of the three terms of an academical year. Exceptionally it may be granted in respect of the terms of more than one academical year.
4. (iv)An application made on medical grounds must be supported by a certificate, preferably given by a doctor practising in or near Cambridge or by a counsellor from the University Counselling Service. The Council’s Standing Committee on Applications may determine which type of certificate it requires in relation to applications under particular regulations.
5. (v)An application must include a detailed statement of reasons and be accompanied by copies of all supervision reports.
6. (vi)An application for exemption from an academic condition for taking a particular examination is not normally approved unless the Faculty Board or similar body concerned have given their concurrence, and that concurrence is indispensable in the case of examinations forming part of the requirements for a professional qualification.
7. (vii)The Council is not empowered to give permission for a candidate to offer a combination of papers, whether within one examination or from more than one examination, which is not provided for by Ordinance or by regulations made under Ordinance. Permission to offer a non-standard combination of papers can be given only by the General Board; such permission will not be granted unless the Faculty Board or other authority concerned are in agreement.
8. (viii)The Council shall authorize its Standing Committee on Applications to issue notes on the procedures adopted by that Committee in its consideration, on behalf of the Council, of applications for allowances under these regulations.

ENTRIES AND LISTS OF CANDIDATES FOR EXAMINATIONS

Amended by Grace 2 of 11 December 2013

1. These regulations shall apply to all Honours Examinations, Preliminary Examinations, and to any other examinations for which written papers are set (except those covered by the regulations for the Ph.D., M.Sc., and M.Litt. Degrees, and for the M.Phil. Degree), and to the examination for the Postgraduate Certificate in Education.

2. In September of each year the Secretary of the Board of Examinations shall circulate to Senior Tutors a Table of Dates giving the dates of the examinations to be held in the following academical year and the dates by which entries of candidates and corrections of those entries are to be submitted.

3. Candidates in statu pupillari shall enrol for the examinations listed in Regulation 11 by entering the details, as approved by each student’s Director of Studies, into the University’s on-line student record database during the period 1 October to 8 November each year.

4. Entries of candidates in statu pupillari into the examinations listed in Regulations 12–15 shall be signed by the candidates concerned and sent to the Board of Examinations by Senior Tutors of Colleges by the date specified by the Board under those regulations.

5. Any entry of a candidate who proposes to offer less than is required by the regulations for the examination concerned shall, unless the entry has been prescribed by a Degree Committee under the general regulations for admission as a Graduate Student, require the sanction of the Council. The name of any such candidate shall not be included in the class-list for the examination concerned.

6. Entries and corrections shall be deemed to have been sent to the Board of Examinations on the day on which they were received at the Board.

7. If the latest date for the submission of entries or corrections falls on a Saturday or Sunday, they shall be due on the previous Friday. If the day for the issue of a list of candidates falls on a Saturday or a Sunday, the list shall be issued on the previous Friday.

8. For every examination a first list of candidates shall be issued, followed by a final, corrected list. The first list and the final list for each examination shall be sent by the Secretary of the Board of Examinations

1. (a)to the Chair of Examiners concerned, or, if there is no Chair, to the senior resident Examiner;
2. (b)to the Head of the Faculty or the Department concerned or, in the case of Faculties not organized in Departments, to the Secretary of the Faculty Board;
3. (c)to the Senior Tutor of each College.2

9. For the examinations specified in Regulations 11–15 the Secretary of the Board of Examinations shall send to Colleges, for transmission to individual candidates, an entry verification form showing the details of each candidate’s entry; each candidate shall either sign the form as correct or indicate what amendments of the entry are required, and shall return the form to the Senior Tutor, who shall inform the Secretary of the Board of any amendments required. The Secretary of the Board shall subsequently send to Colleges for each candidate an entry confirmation form giving details of the candidate’s entry, the time and place of each written paper for which the candidate is entered, and any identification number allocated to the candidate.

10. The latest dates for the submission of entries and corrections of entries, and for the issue of lists of candidates and of entry verification and confirmation forms, shall be as shown in Regulations 11–15, provided that the Board of Examinations shall have authority to amend those dates in respect of any Tripos, Preliminary, or other examinations held before the division of the Easter Term.

11. For the examinations specified below the procedures shall be as shown in the following table in accordance with Regulation 3:

Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic Tripos, Parts I and II, and Preliminary Examination for Part I

Archaeological and Anthropological Tripos, Part IIb

Architecture Tripos, Parts Ia, Ib, and II

Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Tripos, Parts Ia and Ib

Chemical Engineering Tripos, Parts I, IIa, and IIb

Classical Tripos, Parts Ia, Ib, and II, and Preliminary Examinations for Parts Ia and II

Computer Science Tripos, Parts Ia, Ib, and II

Economics Tripos, Parts I, IIa, and IIb

Economics, Advanced Diploma in

Education Tripos, Parts I and II, and Preliminary Examinations for Parts I and II

Education, Postgraduate Certificate in

Engineering Tripos, Parts Ia and Ib

English Tripos, Parts I and II, and Preliminary Examinations for Parts I and II

Geographical Tripos, Parts Ia, Ib, and II, and Preliminary Examination for Part II

History of Art Tripos, Parts I, IIa, and IIb

Conservation of Easel Paintings, Diploma in

Historical Tripos, Parts I and II, and Preliminary Examinations for Parts I and II

Human, Social, and Political Sciences Tripos, Parts I, IIa, and IIb

Land Economy Tripos, Parts Ia, Ib, and II

Law Tripos, Parts Ia, Ib, and II

Law for European students, Examination in

LL.M. Examination

M.C.L. Examination

Linguistics Tripos

Management Studies Tripos

Manufacturing Engineering Tripos, Parts IIa and IIb

Mathematical Tripos, Parts Ia, Ib, and II

[Medical and Veterinary Sciences Tripos, Parts Ia and Ib (from these entries, entries for the various Easter Term

 Second M.B. and Second Veterinary M.B. Examinations are created)]3

〈Medical and Veterinary Sciences Tripos, Parts Ia and Ib (except Ib Lent Term Examination in Head and Neck Anatomy; from these entries, entries for the various Easter Term Second M.B. and Second Veterinary M.B. Examinations are created)〉3

Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos, Parts Ia, Ib, and II4

Modern Languages, Diploma and Certificate in

Music Tripos, Parts Ia, Ib, and II

Mus.B. Examination

Natural Sciences Tripos, Parts Ia, Ib, II, and III (excluding Astrophysics and Physics), and Preliminary Examination for Part II

Philosophy Tripos, Parts Ia, Ib, and II

Politics, Psychology, and Sociology Tripos, Parts IIa and IIb5

Psychological and Behavioural Sciences Tripos, Parts I, IIa, and IIb

Theological and Religious Studies Tripos, Parts I, IIa, and IIb

Theology and Religious Studies, Advanced Diploma in

12. For the examinations specified below the procedures shall be as shown in the following table in accordance with Regulation 4:

Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Tripos, Part II6 and the Preliminary Examination for Part II

Theology for Ministry, First and Second Examination

13. For the examinations specified below the procedures shall be as shown in the following table in accordance with Regulation 4:

Oral Examinations in Arabic, Hebrew, and Persian for Part II of the Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Tripos

Oral Examinations for Part II of the Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos

〈Medical and Veterinary Sciences Tripos, Part Ib (Lent Term examination)〉7

Second M.B. Examination (Lent Term and September examinations)

Second Vet.M.B. Examination (Lent Term and September examinations)

Final M.B. Examination

Final Veterinary Examination

14. For the examinations specified below the procedure for submission of entries (in accordance with Regulation 4) and for the circulation of lists of candidates shall be as shown:

Engineering Tripos, Parts IIa and IIb

Natural Sciences Tripos, Part III, Physics

15. For the examinations specified below the procedure for submission of entries (in accordance with Regulation 4) and for the circulation of lists of candidates shall be as shown:

Mathematical Tripos, Part III

Natural Sciences Tripos, Part III, Astrophysics

16. No alteration of an entry, other than a withdrawal of it, and no additional entry shall be accepted after the latest date specified for the submission of corrections.

17. In accordance with the general regulations for admission as a Graduate Student, the Examiners for any Tripos or for the LL.M. Examination shall have power at the request of a Degree Committee to arrange for the examination of Graduate Students and to report the result of such examination direct to the Secretary of the Degree Committee. The names of such students shall not appear in any class-list.

18. No student shall be admitted to an examination leading to the degree of M.Phil., M.B., B.Chir., LL.M., B.A., Mus.B., or Vet.M.B., except, in the case of a student holding a degree of another university, the Second M.B. Examination, unless (a) the student has satisfied the examination requirements for matriculation or (b) the student belongs to one of the classes of persons whom the Council have approved as qualified for matriculation.

DATES OF EXAMINATIONS AND PUBLICATION OF CLASS-LISTS

Amended by Grace 2 of 11 December 2013, and Grace 5 of 30 July 2014

1. The dates on which the Qualifying Examination in Theology for Ministry, the First and Second Examinations for the B.Th. Degree, all examinations for the M.Phil. Degree, and all Preliminary Examinations shall begin shall be determined by the Board of Examinations in consultation with the Faculty Boards and other similar bodies concerned.

2. The dates on which all other examinations held in the Easter Term shall begin (except for examinations for the M.B., B.Chir., and Vet.M.B. Degrees, and for Certificates of Postgraduate Study, which shall begin on dates determined in accordance with the regulations for those examinations) shall be as set out in the table below, provided that

1. (a)in any year in which candidates for an examination are permitted to offer a paper or subject included in another examination, the time-tables of the examinations shall be arranged accordingly;
2. (b)in any year in which Full Easter Term begins on or after 22 April, all examinations held in that term which are specified in the table below as beginning on or after the Monday before the last Sunday but one in May shall begin one week later than the dates specified in the table;
3. (c)it shall be competent for the Board of Examinations, on the recommendation of the Committee for the Natural Sciences Tripos, to determine that practical examinations for Part Ia of that Tripos be held on up to four of the weekdays immediately preceding the date specified for the beginning of examinations for that Part, and that the practical examination for the subject Physiology, Development, and Neuroscience in Part II of that Tripos be held at any time after the first day of Full Easter Term;
4. (d)subject to the agreement of the Faculty Board or other comparable body concerned, it shall be competent for the Board of Examinations to determine that any particular paper of an examination in the following list shall be held up to three days (Saturdays and Sundays not being counted) before the date specified for the beginning of that examination.

3. The dates on which all examinations not held in the Easter Term shall begin (except for the examinations for the M.B., B.Chir., and Vet.M.B. Degrees, which shall begin on dates determined in accordance with the regulations for those examinations) shall be as follows:

〈Medical and Veterinary Tripos, Part Ib16 (Lent Term examination)

The last day of Full Lent term〉17

Natural Sciences Tripos, Part III18 (Lent Term examination)

The Monday that next precedes the first day of Full Lent Term.

4. If it is necessary, from whatever cause, to begin an examination on a date other than that specified by Ordinance and there is not time to obtain approval by Grace for the change, the Council, or if a meeting of the Council cannot conveniently be convened, the Registrary or a deputy, shall have power to approve the change, on the recommendation of the Chair of Examiners, provided that the change shall be announced in the Reporter as soon as possible.

5. The latest dates for publication, where applicable, of class-lists of Preliminary Examinations and of examinations the dates of which are specified in Regulation 2 shall be as follows:

The Monday before the days of General Admission:

The class-lists for undivided Triposes, Part II examinations for Triposes, Part IIa of the Chemical Engineering Tripos, Part Ib of the Medical and Veterinary Sciences Tripos, Part Ib of the Natural Sciences Tripos, Part IIa of the Manufacturing Engineering Tripos, and the Second Examination for the B.Th. Degree.

The Friday after the days of General Admission:

The class-lists for all other Honours Examinations, for the LL.M. Examination and the Mus.B. Examination, for the Preliminary Examinations, Qualifying Examinations, Certificate Examinations, and the First Examination for the B.Th. Degree.

FORM AND CONDUCT OF EXAMINATIONS

1. For any examination or part of an examination no change in the form and conduct of the examination, by comparison with the form and conduct of that examination in the previous year, shall be made if it would affect the preparation of candidates, unless

1. either(a)the Ordinances governing the examination have been amended with effect from a date later than that of the examination in the previous year;
2. or(b)any supplementary regulations defining or limiting the scope of the examination have been published or amended not later than the date specified in the Schedule to these regulations;
3. or(c)the Faculty Board or other body concerned have published, not later than the date specified in the Schedule, a Notice of the changes of form and conduct, not governed by the regulations or supplementary regulations, that will be made.

2. For any examination or part of an examination held for the first time, the Faculty Board or other body concerned shall publish by the first day of the Full Term preceding that in which the examination takes place, a Notice specifying in as much detail as possible the form and conduct of that examination or part of an examination.

3. In these regulations the term examination in Regulations 1 and 2 shall include any course-work, essay, or other exercise specified in the Ordinances governing that examination.

SCHEDULE

Duration of Written Examination Papers

Unless prescribed otherwise in the regulations for a particular Preliminary, Qualifying, or Tripos Examination, or an examination for a Diploma or Certificate, all written papers in those examinations (other than written papers or similar exercises which constitute the whole or part of a practical examination) shall each be of three hours’ duration.

Interviews

Notwithstanding the provisions of any other Ordinance, the Examiners for any Tripos Examination, Qualifying Examination, or Preliminary Examination, or for any examination for a Diploma or Certificate for which candidates are not required to be Graduate Students, shall have discretion, after consultation with the Board of Examinations, to summon a particular candidate or particular candidates for interview on any aspect of the written work of the candidate or candidates not produced in an examination room which in the opinion of the Examiners requires elucidation.

Marking and classing conventions and criteria

Faculty Boards and comparable authorities shall be entitled to issue to the Examiners and Assessors appointed for the examination concerned details of the conventions and criteria to be applied in marking written papers and other work and, where applicable, in determining class-lists. Such details and any changes to them shall be issued not later than the end of the Full Michaelmas Term preceding the examination.

PUBLICATION OF LISTS OF SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATES IN EXAMINATIONS

1. Save in so far as the General Board shall allow otherwise, every Examiner who has taken part in an examination shall be present, unless prevented by grave cause approved before the meeting by the Vice-Chancellor, at the final meeting of the Examiners, which shall be defined as follows:

1. (a)Each Examiner for any Part of the Medical and Veterinary Sciences Tripos, or for Part Ia or Part Ib of the Natural Sciences Tripos, shall be present at the meeting of the Examiners at which the marks of the candidates in his or her particular subject are finally approved.
2. (b)Each Examiner for any other examination for which a class-list is published shall be present at the meeting of the Examiners at which that list is finally approved.

2. For each of the examinations specified in Regulation 1(a) there shall be held, in addition to the final meetings of Examiners in particular subjects, a subsequent meeting of the Chair and the Senior Examiners, at which the class-list for the whole examination shall be finally approved, and at which the following shall be present:

1. (a)the Chair of Examiners or, in the absence of the Chair, an Assistant Chair of Examiners;
2. (b)the Senior Examiner (or a designated deputy) for each particular subject of the examination.

3. At the final meeting of the Examiners held under Regulation 1(b), or at the meeting of the Chair and the Senior Examiners held under Regulation 2, two copies of the class-list, as finally approved, shall be signed by all those present. These copies shall be sent without delay to the Registrary by the Chair of Examiners. One of the two copies, if they are in print, or, if they are not in print, a printed copy subsequently signed by the Chair of Examiners, shall be preserved in the Registry as the authoritative list.

4. All class-lists shall be published by the Registrary and subsequently printed in the Reporter. A list shall be deemed to have been published as soon as either (a) the Registrary has caused a copy of it to be posted outside the Senate-House or (b) a copy of it has been read in the Senate-House. Any copy of a list read in the Senate-House shall immediately thereafter be posted outside the Senate-House. Until printing of a class-list in the Reporter, a copy of the class-list issued for posting outside the Senate-House or in any Faculty, Department, or other institution in the University or a College, or read in the Senate-House shall exclude the name of any candidate where such exclusion has been determined by the Council for good cause.

5. The Registrary shall arrange for copies of each complete list to be sent to each College, Approved Foundation, and Approved Society as soon as possible after publication.

6. The Chair of Examiners shall communicate to the Registrary as soon as practicable a statement of the day on which the Registrary may expect to receive the list and whether the list is to be read in the Senate-House; and the Registrary shall cause to be posted outside the Senate-House, or shall insert in the Reporter, a notice of the expected date of publication.

7. In any case in which the Chair of Examiners satisfies the Vice-Chancellor that a list published in accordance with the foregoing regulations needs amendment, the Vice-Chancellor may authorize the issue of a Notice amending the list, or of an amended list to supersede the original list.

DISCLOSURE OF EXAMINATION MARKS

1. Regulations 2–5 below shall apply to the following University examinations:

All Tripos, Preliminary, and Qualifying Examinations

The Examination in Law for European students

The LL.M. Examination

The Second M.B., and Final M.B. Examinations

The Mus.B. Examination

The Second Veterinary M.B. Examination and the Final Veterinary Examination

The examinations for Diplomas in Modern Languages

The examination for Certificates in Modern Languages

The examination for the Postgraduate Certificate in Education

The Qualifying Examination in Theology for Ministry and the First and Second Examinations for the B.Th.  Degree.

2. The Examiners for each of the examinations specified in Regulation 1 above shall communicate to the Registrary and to Tutors or other designated College officers, or officers of institutions within the Cambridge Theological Federation, for transmission to their pupils, the marks of their pupils and such other information as may be considered advisable; provided that, in the case of examinations leading to the degrees of M.B., B.Chir., and Vet.M.B., such communication shall be in accordance with the regulations for those degrees.

3. Marks and other information shall also be communicated on request to bodies responsible for making University or College awards, to bodies responsible for awarding postgraduate studentships, to the Board of Graduate Studies, and to Heads of Departments, Chairs of the Boards of Faculties not organized in Departments, and Secretaries of Degree Committees, and, in the case of marks obtained in the Final M.B. Examination, to the Director of Medical Education in the Clinical School.

4. Marks and other information may also be provided in a statement of verification by the Registrary, on evidence supplied by the Examiners, to examining bodies external to the University, for the purpose of exemption from their examinations. The fee to be charged for such a certificate shall be determined by the General Board from time to time.

5. The nature of the marks and other information to be communicated under Regulations 2–4 above shall be determined from time to time by the Faculty Board or comparable authority concerned, or by the Committee of Management for the Natural Sciences Tripos in the case of that Tripos, and shall be notified to the General Board for their approval.

6. Except as may be otherwise required by law, marks and other information communicated under Regulations 2–4 shall not be disclosed to any person or body except (i) those specified in those regulations and (ii) the individual candidate to whom the marks relate.

REVIEW PROCEDURE FOR EXAMINATIONS FOR UNDERGRADUATE AND CERTAIN OTHER QUALIFICATIONS

1. The following regulations shall apply to any University examination listed in the Schedule to these regulations.

2. No representations under these regulations shall be considered unless they relate to

1. (a)the conduct of the examination or;
2. (b)a decision by a Faculty Board or comparable authority not to allow a student who has completed the requirement for the B.A. Degree to progress to that Part of a Tripos required for the M.Eng. or the M.Math. or the M.Sci. Degree.

3. No representations under Regulation 5 shall be considered if they reach the Registrary later than 4 p.m. on the third day (excluding Saturday and Sunday) after the candidate concerned has completed all parts of his or her examination. In exceptional circumstances the Registrary may allow a short extension of this deadline.

4. No representations under Regulation 6 shall be considered if (a) for those relating to 2(a) above, they reach the Registrary later than one month after the date upon which the list of successful candidates is signed or (b) for those relating to 2(b) above, they reach the Registrary later than one month after the date upon which the Faculty Board or comparable authority reaches its decision. In exceptional circumstances the Registrary may allow an extension of these deadlines.

5. Representations concerning the conduct of an examination arising before the list of successful candidates is signed shall be submitted to the Registrary by the candidate or by a Tutor on the candidate's behalf. The Registrary shall thereupon refer the representations to the Chair of Examiners for consideration by the Examiners at their final meeting. The Examiners shall take whatever action they think fit in the light of the representations. Within one week of the signing of the list of successful candidates, the Chair shall submit a report to the Registrary including an explanation of the action taken by the Examiners on the representations. The Registrary shall thereupon send a copy of that report to the candidate, to the Tutor (if any) submitting the representations, and to the Senior Tutor of the candidate's College. If the representations reach the Chair of Examiners after the final meeting they shall be considered in accordance with the provisions of Regulation 6.

6. Representations concerning the conduct of an examination arising after the list of successful candidates is signed shall be submitted to the Registrary by the candidate or by a Tutor on the candidate's behalf. The Registrary shall thereupon refer the representations to the Chair of Examiners. The representations shall be considered by the Chair and at least two other Examiners. Within one month of receiving the representations the Chair shall submit a report to the Registrary including an explanation of any action which the Chair has taken on the representations. The Registrary shall thereupon send a copy of that report to the candidate, to the Tutor (if any) submitting the representations, and to the Senior Tutor of the candidate's College. The same procedures shall apply to representations falling within Regulation 2(b) above, save that the Chair of the Faculty Board or comparable body shall consider the representations with at least two other members and report to the Registrary accordingly.

7. If the candidate concerned is dissatisfied with the response from the Chair of Examiners (or the Chair of the Faculty Board or comparable body as the case may be), the candidate may apply to the Registrary for the matter to be considered by an Examinations Review Committee constituted in accordance with Regulation 8, provided that such an application shall not normally be considered unless it is received by the Registrary within three months of the date on which the report from the Chair of Examiners (or the Chair of the Faculty Board or comparable body as the case may be) is communicated in accordance with Regulation 5 or 6, as appropriate. In exceptional circumstances the Registrary may allow an extension of this deadline. The candidate shall, in the application, provide a full statement of his or her complaint.

8. A Review Committee appointed under these regulations shall consist of three members as follows:

1. (a)one member, who shall have appropriate experience in matters of procedure, appointed by the Council, as Chair;
2. (b)one member who is external to the University appointed by the General Board;
3. (c)one member of the Regent House appointed by the General Board.

In the event that the Chair declares an interest or is otherwise unable to act, the member under category (b) shall act as Chair, and two members of the Regent House shall be appointed to act. In the event that the member under category (b) declares an interest or is otherwise unable to act, two members of the Regent House shall be appointed to act.

9. The General Board shall maintain a panel of members of the Regent House who are willing to serve as members of a Review Committee in class (c), and shall appoint twelve persons to the panel, four persons being appointed in the Michaelmas Term of each year to serve for three years from 1 January following their appointment. When any representations are to be referred to a Review Committee, the General Board shall nominate one member of the panel for appointment as a member of the Review Committee for the particular case. In selecting a member of the panel for appointment as a member of a Review Committee, the Board shall exclude any person who has been involved in the particular case at an earlier stage. A person appointed a member of a Review Committee shall serve until the conclusion of the particular case for which he or she was appointed. In the event that the person so appointed is unable to do so, the General Board shall appoint a replacement member from the panel.

10. The Registrary, or a deputy appointed by the Registrary, shall act as Secretary to a Review Committee.

11. The Secretary to the Review Committee shall notify the candidate of the persons appointed to be members of the Review Committee. The candidate shall be entitled to object for good cause to any member so appointed. The Vice-Chancellor shall rule on any such objection, and his or her decision shall be final. If the Vice-Chancellor allows such an objection, another member shall be appointed to replace the person who was the subject of the objection.

12. A Review Committee shall consider any representations which are referred to them under Regulation 7 which in the judgement of the Committee constitutes a complaint on one or more of the following grounds:

1. (a)that there existed material circumstances relating to the conduct of the examination (excluding circumstances relating to the candidate's course of study) of which the Examiners were unaware;
2. (b)that procedural irregularities occurred in the conduct of the examination, which were of such a nature as to cause reasonable doubt as to whether the Examiners would have reached the same conclusion had the irregularities not occurred;
3. (c)that there is demonstrable evidence of prejudice, bias, or inadequate assessment in the examination process;
4. (d)that, with regard to representations falling within Regulation 2(b), there existed material circumstances (excluding circumstances relating to the candidate’s course of study) of which the Faculty Board or comparable body were unaware, or that procedural irregularities occurred in the Faculty Board’s or comparable body’s decision which were of such a nature as to cause reasonable doubt as to whether that body would have reached the same decision had the irregularities not occurred, or that there is demonstrable evidence of prejudice, bias or inadequate assessment in that body’s decision.

In considering the representations at this stage the Committee shall have power to seek statements from other persons or bodies, as they think fit. If the Committee are of the view that the case does not fall within any of the grounds specified above, they shall dismiss the complaint and shall inform the candidate accordingly.

13. Subject to the provisions of Regulation 12, any statement of complaint received by the Review Committee shall be made available to each of the following:

1. (a)the Chair of Examiners (or the Chair of the Faculty Board or comparable authority if the complaint relates to Regulation 2(b));
2. (b)any person against whom a complaint is laid;
3. (c)any other person specified by the Review Committee.

Each of these persons shall be given an opportunity to submit a written statement to the Committee in response to the complaint. The Committee shall have power to seek statements from other persons or bodies, as they think fit.

14. Any statement submitted to the Review Committee under Regulation 13 shall be made available to the candidate who shall be afforded an opportunity to comment upon it.

15. The Committee shall appoint a day and time for a hearing at which the candidate shall be entitled to be present and to be accompanied by a Tutor or other adviser being either a junior member of the University, an officer of Cambridge University Students Union, or a member of the Regent House; any person accompanying the candidate shall be permitted to act as the candidate's representative and to speak on his or her behalf. Any person or persons against whom a complaint is laid shall also be entitled to be present (and to be accompanied by a member of the Regent House). The Committee may also, at their discretion, invite other parties to attend.

16. A Review Committee shall consider any complaint referred to them under Regulation 7 and shall have power to dismiss the complaint or, if they consider it justified:

1. (a)to require the Chair of Examiners to re-convene as many of the original Examiners as can conveniently be assembled for the purpose of reconsidering their earlier decisions on the particular case, no fewer than three Examiners inclusive of the Chair to constitute a quorum; or
2. (b)to require the General Board to appoint one or more additional Examiners to make an independent report or reports on the work presented by the candidate, and to require the Chair of Examiners to convene a meeting of as many of the original Examiners as can conveniently be assembled together with the additional Examiner or Examiners to reconsider the earlier decisions on the particular case, no fewer than three of the original Examiners inclusive of the Chair, and the additional Examiner or Examiners, to constitute a quorum; or
3. (c)to require the candidate, or the candidate's work, to be re-examined under whatever arrangements may be specified by the Review Committee, after consultation with the Chair of Examiners;
4. (d)to require (if the complaint relates to Regulation 2(b)) the Faculty Board or comparable body to reconsider their decision.

17. The Secretary of the Review Committee shall send written notification of the Committee's decision and the reasons for it to the candidate, the Chair of Examiners (or the Chair of the Faculty Board or comparable body if the complaint falls within Regulation 2(b)), and to the other parties specified in Regulation 13.

18. Subject to any other provisions of the Statutes and Ordinances, the decision of a Review Committee on a particular case shall be final.

19. The Chair of Examiners may appoint a deputy or deputies from among the Examiners to act on his or her behalf in relation to the foregoing regulations during the Chair's absence from Cambridge or for other good cause. The same power of delegation may be exercised by a Faculty Board or comparable authority or its Chair for complaints falling within Regulation 2(b).

20. A Review Committee shall, if they so wish, be entitled to make general recommendations about examination procedures to the General Board, irrespective of the outcome of their consideration of a complaint.

SCHEDULE

Examinations for which the foregoing regulations apply

Examinations, including where appropriate Preliminary, Ordinary, and Qualifying examinations, taken by matriculated students and leading to the following qualifications:

GENERAL REGULATIONS FOR EXAMINERS AND ASSESSORS

1. Examiners, Chairs of Examiners, and Assessors shall be appointed in accordance with the provisions of Regulations 2–3 below, provided always that the General Board shall have power, after consulting the Faculty Board or other authority concerned, and subject to the provisions of Statute B III 1, to authorize an alternative procedure, or to vary the timetable set out in Regulation 3, in the case of a particular examination.

2. Examiners and Assessors for the examinations specified in the Schedule to these regulations shall be appointed by the General Board on the nomination of the body specified in the special regulations for each examination. For each board of Examiners the General Board shall also appoint, on the nomination of the same body, a resident member of the Regent House as Chair of Examiners.

3. Nominations shall be made in accordance with the following timetable:

Chairs of Examiners and Senior Examiners: not later than the first day of the Michaelmas Term in the academical year in which the examination is to be held.

Other Examiners: not later than the division of the Michaelmas Term in the academical year in which the examination is to be held.

Assessors: not later than four weeks before the beginning of the examination concerned.

4. If it is necessary from whatever cause for an Examiner or Assessor to be nominated after the normal date, the General Board or (if the nomination cannot be considered by the General Board without undue delay) the Secretary of the General Board or a deputy appointed by the Secretary shall have power, on the recommendation of the Chair of Examiners, to approve such a nomination and to make the appointment.

5. The Chair of Examiners shall call such meetings as may be necessary for considering the papers proposed to be set and settling them in common, and for drawing up the list of successful candidates, and generally shall see that the regulations for the examination are observed.

6. In an equality of votes a Chair of Examiners shall have a second or casting vote.

7. Each body of Examiners shall draw up, and the Chair of Examiners shall send to the Secretary of the Board of Examinations, a scheme showing which of the Examiners is to attend at the beginning of each session with which they are concerned.

8. Except as may be provided otherwise in the regulations for a particular examination, in a year in which a candidate for any examination (‘Examination A’) offers a paper from another examination (‘Examination B’), any Examiner or Assessor responsible for that paper in Examination B shall act as Assessor to the Examiners for Examination A and shall advise them on the candidate's performance; provided that, if no candidate for Examination B has entered for that paper, the body responsible for nominating Examiners for Examination B shall nominate for appointment in the Lent Term an Assessor or Assessors to set the paper and advise the Examiners for Examination A on the performance of the candidate. Assessors so acting or appointed under this regulation may be summoned to meetings of the Examiners for the purpose of consultation and advice, but shall not be entitled to vote.

9. The duty to examine students which is imposed by Statute C I 4 on every University officer specified in the Schedule to Special Ordinance C (i) 1 shall be restricted to the examining of candidates for any of the degrees of Master of Advanced Study, Business Administration, Engineering, Finance, Law, Corporate Law, Mathematics, Music, Natural Sciences, Philosophy, and Research, or Bachelor of Arts, Medicine, Music, Surgery, and Veterinary Medicine, or for any Certificate or Diploma of the University listed in the Table of Fees under University Composition Fees.

SCHEDULE

1. (a)Preliminary and Qualifying Examinations.
2. (b)Honours Examinations.
3. (c)The examinations for the degrees of LL.M., M.C.L., M.B.A., M.Ed., M.Fin., M.B., B.Chir., Vet.M.B., and Mus.B.
4. (d)Examinations for all Diplomas except those in International Law and Legal Studies.
5. (e)The examination for the Postgraduate Certificate in Education.
6. (f)The Examination in Law for European students.
7. (g)The Qualifying Examination in Theology for Ministry, and the First and Second Examinations for the degree of B.Th.
8. (h)The examinations for the Certificates in Humanities Computing for Languages and in Modern Languages.

PAYMENTS TO EXAMINERS AND ASSESSORS

Amended by Grace 8 of 16 July 2014

1. (a) No payment shall be made to any University officer, other than an Associate Lecturer who receives no stipend from the University, in respect of any of the examining duties specified in these regulations.

(b) No payment shall be made to any member of the staff of an institution within the Cambridge Theological Federation in respect of such duties undertaken in connection with any of the following examinations: the Qualifying Examination in Theology for Ministry; the First Examination and the Second Examination for the B.Th. Degree.

2. Any person appointed to be an Examiner who does not hold a University office, or a Fellowship or some other office or post in a College, and who does not teach any course of instruction which forms part of the teaching programme for the examination concerned, may be appointed as an External Examiner by the General Board, or other authority as appropriate, on the nomination of the body specified in the regulations for the examination concerned. Any payment to an External Examiner shall be conditional on him or her meeting the requirements of an External Examiner as laid out by the General Board from time to time.

3. Subject to the provisions of Regulation 1, payment for acting as an Examiner or an Assessor in any of the examinations specified in this regulation shall be made at the rates shown below, subject to the following provisions:

1. (i)the payment for examining or assessing components of an examination other than those specified below shall be determined by the General Board, having regard to the nature of the examining or assessment;
2. (ii)except by special permission of the General Board, no one shall receive more than one additional payment for acting as an External Examiner or Assessor under any of subsections (a)–(d) below;
3. (iii)if a person examines for a written paper or other component part of an examination which is offered in more than one examination, he or she shall not thereby be qualified to receive more than one payment for acting as Examiner or Assessor.

(a) Preliminary, Qualifying, and Honours Examinations

Examination in Law for European students

Examinations for the LL.M., M.C.L., M.B.A., M.Ed., M.Fin., M.A.St., and Mus.B. Degrees

Qualifying Examination in Theology for Ministry, First Examination, and Second Examination for the B.Th. Degree

Examinations for the Diploma in Conservation of Easel Painting, and Advanced Diplomas in Economics and Theology and Religious Studies

Examinations for Certificates of Postgraduate Study, for Diplomas and Certificates in Modern Languages, and for the Certificate in Humanities Computing for Languages

Examination for the Postgraduate Certificate in Education

4. Payment to any person for acting as Examiner, Assessor, or referee in any examination leading to one of the degrees of Master of Surgery, Science, Letters, or Studies, or to the degree of Doctor of Engineering or Philosophy or to any higher degree shall be made in accordance with the regulations for the degree concerned.

5. The Chair of Examiners or the Senior Examiner shall be responsible for notifying the Secretary of the Board of Examinations of the details of the payments to be made to those Examiners and Assessors, if any, who are qualified to receive payment.

6. An External Examiner or Assessor appointed to examine within the University shall be entitled to receive travelling expenses and a subsistence allowance, as follows:

1. (a)For the examinations specified in subsections (a)–(e) of Regulation 3, travelling expenses shall normally be equal to the return rail fare between Cambridge and the Examiner's usual place of residence or other place approved by the General Board, provided that the Board of Examinations may approve payment of a mileage allowance for travel by car or payment for alternative means of travel when travel by train is inconvenient. Travelling expenses shall not normally be paid for more than three visits in connection with any single examination; but the General Board may waive this restriction on the recommendation of the Chair of Examiners concerned.
2.   Subsistence allowance may be claimed at rates determined from time to time by the Finance Committee of the Council, provided that no payment shall be made in respect of a day or a night when the Examiner's attendance in Cambridge in connection with the examination is unnecessary.
3.   Claims for travelling expenses and subsistence allowance must be made through, and be approved by, the Chair of Examiners concerned. In addition to payment for the expenses provided for in this regulation, the Board of Examinations may approve payment of other reasonable expenses incurred by an Examiner or Assessor, whether internal or external, in connection with the execution of his or her duties.
4. (b)Examiners for other examinations may claim payment of travelling expenses and a subsistence allowance in accordance with Regulation 11 of the regulations for the Ph.D., M.Sc., and M.Litt. Degrees.