Part 4 Second Public Examination

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4.1. The Second Public Examination shall, except in the case of the Degree of Bachelor of Fine Art, consist of a Final Examination in the Honour Schools in each of the subjects listed in Table 6.
4.2. The examinations shall be conducted by the Public Examiners under the supervision of the divisional or faculty boards assigned to each school in Table 6.
4.3. The Second Public Examination for the Degree of Bachelor of Fine Art shall consist of a Final Honour School under the supervision of the Committee for the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art.
4.4. 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.
4.5. Special Regulations made and lists drawn up by boards under regulation 4.5 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
4.6. Every candidate in a Second Public Examination shall be examined in writing; and any candidate who seeks Honours may be examined viva voce where Special Regulations made by the divisional board, board of a faculty, or other body responsible for an examination (or jointly by the relevant bodies where an examination is a joint responsibility) expressly provide.
4.7. A board may specify by Special Regulation that an examination shall be partly aural, oral, practical, or visual.
Admission to the Second Public Examination
4.8. No person who is not a student member of the University may be admitted to the Second Public Examination.
4.9. No person may be admitted to the Second Public Examination unless he or she has passed or been exempted from the First Public Examination.
4.10. No person may be admitted as a candidate in any Final Honour School unless he or she:
1. (1) has satisfied the conditions, if any, which are required by regulations (including Special Regulations) relating to the School in which he or she is a candidate; and
2. (2) will by the end of the term in which the examination is taken have kept statutory residence for the number of terms which, under Part 2 or 5 of these regulations or the Regulations for Senior Student Status, is appropriate to his or her status and to the School in which he or she is a candidate.
Maximum time allowed for Honours
4.11. No person may be admitted as a candidate in any Final Honour School after the lapse of twelve terms from the term of matriculation inclusively, except in the following cases:
1. (1) A candidate who has obtained Honours in some other Final Honour School may be admitted not more than six terms after the date on which he or she first obtained Honours in a Final Honour School.
2. (2) A candidate who has obtained Honours (or has satisfied the Moderators under the Regulations for the Conduct of Examinations) in Honour Moderations may be admitted as a candidate in Part II of the examination in Chemistry or in Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry or in Materials Science up to the end of the eighteenth term.
3. (3) A candidate in any of the following Final Honour School examinations may be admitted up to the end of the fifteenth term:
  1. (a) any Final Honour School, if the candidate has obtained Honours (or has satisfied the Moderators under the Regulations for the Conduct of Examinations) in Honour Moderations in either the fifth or sixth term, or the eighth term in the case of Honour Moderations in Classics, from matriculation;
  2. (b) the second part of any Final Honour School which is divided into two parts, except the Honour School of Biological Sciences, the Honour School of Geology, and the Honour School of Physics (three-year course);
  3. (c) the third part of any Final Honour School which is divided into three parts;
  4. (d) the Honour School of Classics and Modern Languages, English and Modern Languages, European and Middle Eastern Languages, Jurisprudence, Modern Languages, Modern History and Modern Languages, or Philosophy and Modern Languages, if the candidate is certified by his or her college to have spent an academic year of approved residence in an appropriate country or appropriate countries;
  5. (e) the examination in Chinese or Japanese, or, if the candidate is certified to have spent an academic year abroad on a course approved by the Board of the Faculty of Oriental Studies, the examination in Arabic, or Hebrew, or Persian, or Turkish, in the Honour School of Oriental Studies.
4. (4) A person whose position is not covered in any of paragraphs 4.11 (1)-(3) may be admitted as a candidate in a Final Honour School for which there is at least one other candidate, subject to the approval of the Education Committee.
5. (5) A person who is admitted under (4) above within six terms of the term in which they were originally due to be examined for a part of a Final Honour School or the relevant Part, shall normally be examined in accordance with the regulations pertaining to the orginal examination.
6. (6) A person who is admitted under (4) above seven or more terms after the term in which they were originally due to be examined for a part of a Final Honour School or the relevant Part, shall normally be examined in accordance with the current regulations.
4.12. The candidate's college shall be required to certify on the entry form, by the time determined for entry, whether or not the candidate will have met the requirement for statutory residence by the end of the term in which the examination is held, and to notify the University of any change in the candidate's status in this respect between entry and the date of the examination.
4.13. No person whose name has been placed in any class list by the Public Examiners (other than a candidate who has been declared to have deserved Honours under the Regulations for the Conduct of Examinations) shall be admitted again as a candidate in the same Final Honour School, but this regulation shall not affect the regulations concerning the Final Honour Schools of Modern Languages and Oriental Studies which enable candidates under certain conditions to offer themselves again in the same School.
4.14.
1. (1) No person whose name has been placed in any class list by the Public Examiners (with the exceptions in regulations 4.12 and 4.13 above) shall be admitted as a candidate in a second Final Honour School having papers in common with the first, except with the permission of the Proctors.
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.
Passing the Second Public Examination
4.15. Candidates shall be deemed to have passed the Second Public Examination if they either have obtained Honours, or satisfied the examiners, in any one of the Honour Schools listed in Table 5, and Table 6 or in the Final Examination in Fine Art.

Table 6: honour schools
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
Cell and Systems Biology	Medical Sciences Division
Chemistry	Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division
Classical Archaeology and Ancient History	Social Sciences Division and Faculty of Classics
Classics and English	Faculties of Classics and English Language and Literature
Classics and Modern Languages	Faculties of Classics and Medieval and Modern Languages
Classics and Oriental Studies	Faculties of Classics and Oriental Studies
Computer Science (three-year and four-year)	Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division
[From 1 October 2013: Computer Science and Philosophy (three-year and four-year)	Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division and Faculty of Philosophy]
Earth Sciences (four-year)	Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division
Economics and Management	Social Sciences Division
Engineering, Economics, and Management	Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences and Social Sciences Divisions
Engineering Science	Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division
English Language and Literature	Faculty of English Language and Literature
English and Modern Languages	Faculties of English Language and Literature and Medieval and Modern Languages
European and Middle Eastern Languages	Faculties of Medieval and Modern Languages and Oriental Studies
Experimental Psychology	Medical Sciences Division
Geography	Social Sciences Division
Geology (three-year)	Mathematical, Physical and Life 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 Modern History
Human Sciences	Social Sciences Division
Jurisprudence	Faculty of Law
Literae Humaniores	Faculties of Classics and Philosophy
Materials, Economics, and Management	Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences and Social Sciences Divisions
Materials Science	Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division
Mathematics (three-year and four-year)	Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division
Mathematics and Computer Science (three-year and four-year)	Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division
Mathematics and Philosophy	Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division and Faculty of Philosophy
Mathematics and Statistics (three-year and four-year)	Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division
Medical Sciences	Medical Sciences Division
Modern Languages	Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages
Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry	Medical Sciences Division
Music	Faculty of Music
Neuroscience	Medical Sciences Division
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
Philosophy and Theology	Faculties of Philosophy and Theology
Physics (three-year and four-year)	Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division
Physics and Philosophy	Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division and Faculty of Philosophy
[Until 1 October 2014: Physiological Sciences	Medical Sciences Division]
[Until 1 October 2015: Psychology and Philosophy	Medical Sciences Division and Faculty of Philosophy]
[From 1 October 2014: Psychology, Philosophy, and Linguistics	Medical Sciences Division and Faculties of Philosophy and Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics]
[Until 1 October 2014: Psychology, Philosophy, and Physiology	Medical Sciences Division and Faculty of Philosophy]
Theology	Faculty of Theology
Theology and Oriental Studies	Faculties of Theology and Oriental Studies