Part 3 First Public Examination

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3.1. The First Public Examination shall include Honour Moderations, Moderations, and Preliminary Examinations in the subjects respectively listed in Tables 1, 2, and 3 below. [See Table 1, Table 2, Table 3]
3.2. The examinations shall be conducted by Moderators under the supervision of the divisional and faculty boards assigned to each subject respectively in Tables 1, 2, and 3 below. [See Table 1, Table 2, Table 3]
3.3. The boards shall from time to time make and publish Special Regulations respecting the examinations under their supervision and shall publish lists of subjects and (where appropriate) of books which may be offered for examination, maintaining as far as possible a distinction between the subjects and any books prescribed in the First and Second Public Examinations respectively.
3.4. Special Regulations made and lists drawn up by boards under regulation 3.3 above shall not have effect until:
1. (1) they have been approved by or on behalf of the Education Committee of Council;
2. (2) in the case of regulations made and lists drawn up by faculty boards or other bodies within the Humanities and Social Sciences Divisions, they have also first been approved by the Humanities Board or the Social Sciences Board as appropriate;
3. (3) they have then been duly published, and if necessary approved by Congregation, in accordance with the procedure laid down in sections 13-18 of Statute VI.
Method of examining
3.5. Subject to regulation 3.6 below the examinations shall be conducted in writing.
3.6. A board may specify by Special Regulation that an examination shall be partly aural, oral, practical, or visual.
Admission to the First Public Examination
3.7. No person who is not a student member of the University may be admitted to the First Public Examination.
3.8. Candidates may be admitted to Honour Moderations at any time not earlier than the third term from matriculation, but no candidate who has exceeded the sixth term from matriculation inclusively, or the eighth term in the case of candidates for Honour Moderations in Classics, shall be capable of obtaining Honours.
3.9. Candidates may be admitted to each of the Moderations listed in Table 4 below [See Table 4] not earlier than the term from matriculation specified in each case.
3.10.
1. (1) Candidates shall not be admitted to any of the Preliminary Examinations which has the same title as any Honour Moderations or Moderations, and which is one of those marked with an asterisk in Table 3 below [See Table 3], unless they have either failed the examination for the Honour Moderations or Moderations with the same title or, subject to the consent of the Proctors, have been prevented by illness or other urgent and reasonable cause from taking that examination.
2. (2) If any member of the University is dissatisfied with a decision by the Proctors under paragraph (1) above, he or she, or his or her college, may within fourteen days of the date of the decision appeal in writing to the Chairman of the Education Committee of Council.
3. (3) The appeal shall be adjudged expeditiously by the Chairman or another member of the committee, other than one of the Proctors, nominated by the Chairman.
3.11. Candidates may be admitted to each of the Preliminary Examinations listed in Table 5 below [See Table 5] not earlier than the term from matriculation specified in each case.
3.12. No person whose name has been placed in any Class List issued by Moderators shall be admitted again as a candidate in the same Honours Examination.
Passing the First Public Examination
3.13. A candidate shall be deemed to have passed the First Public Examination if he or she has satisfied the Moderators in any one of the parts of the examination as set out in Tables 1, 2, and 3 below. [See Table 1, Table 2, Table 3]
3.14. Any person who has satisfied the Moderators in Part I of the First Examination for the Degree of Bachelor of Medicine shall be deemed to have passed the First Public Examination.
3.15. A candidate who fails to satisfy the Moderators in his or her initial examination for the First Public Examination shall be permitted to re-enter for the First Public Examination on one further occasion (in accordance with the regulations governing the resit in that subject). The sole exception to this shall be where college academic disciplinary procedures are already in process at the time of the first attempt, and the student has received a written warning which explicitly provides, at least four weeks before the first examination (and subject to the normal college appeal mechanism), that a specified number of failures on identified papers or other elements of the Public Examination at the first attempt will lead to termination of the student’s course of study.

Table 1: Honour Moderations
Subject	Board(s)
Archaeology and Anthropology	Social Sciences Division
Biological Sciences	Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division
Classical Archaeology and Ancient History	Social Sciences Division and Faculty of Classics
Classics	Faculty of Classics
Classics and English	Faculties of Classics and English Language and Literature
Computer Science	Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division
[From 1 October 2012: Computer Science and Philosophy	Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division and Faculty of Philosophy]
Mathematics	Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division
Mathematics and Computer Science	Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division
Mathematics and Philosophy	Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division and Faculty of Philosophy
Music	Faculty of Music

Table 2: Moderations
Subject	Board(s)
English Language and Literature	Faculty of English Language and Literature
Law	Faculty of Law
Oriental Studies	Faculty of Oriental Studies
Physics and Philosophy	Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division and Faculty of Philosophy

Table 3: Preliminary Examinations *(For the explanation of the asterisks see regulation 3.12)*
Subject	Board(s)
Ancient and Modern History	Faculties of Classics and History
*Archaeology and Anthropology	Social Sciences Division
*Biological Sciences	Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division
Biomedical Sciences	Medical Sciences Division
Chemistry	Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division
*Classical Archaeology and Ancient History	Social Sciences Division and Faculty of Classics
*Classics	Faculty of Classics
*Classics and English	Faculties of Classics and English Language and Literature
*Computer Science	Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division
[From 1 October 2012: Computer Science and Philosophy	Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division and Faculty of Philosophy]
Earth Sciences	Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division
Economics and Management	Social Sciences Division
Engineering Science	Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division
English and Modern Languages	Faculties of English Language and Literature and Medieval and Modern Languages
*English Language and Literature	Faculty of English Language and Literature
European and Middle Eastern Languages	Faculties of Medieval and Modern Languages and Oriental Studies
Fine Art	Committee for Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art
Geography	Social Sciences Division
History	Faculty of History
History and Economics	Faculty of History and Social Sciences Division
History and English	Faculties of History and English Language and Literature
History and Modern Languages	Faculties of History and Medieval and Modern Languages
History and Politics	Faculty of History and Social Sciences Division
History of Art	Faculty of History
Human Sciences	Social Sciences Division
Materials Science	Social Sciences Division
*Mathematics	Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division
*Mathematics and Computer Science	Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division
*Mathematics and Philosophy	Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division and Faculty of Philosophy
Modern Languages	Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages
Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry	Medical Sciences Division
*Music	Faculty of Music
*Oriental Studies	Faculty of Oriental Studies
Philosophy and Modern Languages	Faculties of Philosophy and Medieval and Modern Languages
Philosophy, Politics, and Economics	Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences Division
Physics	Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division
*Physics and Philosophy	Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division and Faculty of Philosophy
Psychology and Philosophy	Medical Sciences Division and Faculty of Philosophy
Theology	Faculty of Theology

Table 4: Admission to Moderations
Moderations	Earliest term from matriculation
English Language and Literature	3rd
Law	2nd
Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies	3rd
Physics and Philosophy	3rd

Table 5: admission to preliminary examinations
Preliminary Examination	Earliest term from matriculation
Ancient and Modern History	3rd
Biological Sciences	3rd
Biomedical Sciences	3rd
Chemistry	2nd
Classics	2nd
Computer Science	3rd
[From 1 October 2012: Computer Science and Philosophy	3rd]
Earth Sciences	2nd
English and Modern Languages:
English	3rd
Modern Language	2nd
Fine Art	3rd
History	3rd
History and Economics	3rd
History and English	3rd
History and Modern Languages	3rd
History and Politics	3rd
Mathematics	3rd
Mathematics and Computer Science	3rd
Mathematics and Philosophy	3rd
Modern Languages	2nd
Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry	2nd
Oriental Studies:
Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Turkish	3rd
Other languages	2nd
Philosophy and Modern Languages	2nd
Philosophy, Politics, and Economics	2nd
Physics and Philosophy	3rd
Psychology and Philosophy	2nd
Theology	2nd