Special Regulations for the Honour Moderations in Biological Sciences

A

The subjects of the examination, the syllabus, and the number of papers shall be as prescribed by regulation from time to time by the Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Board.

B

1. 1. The Biological Sciences Steering Committee shall publish the First Year Biology Handbook not later than the beginning of Michaelmas Full Term before the examination in the following Trinity Term. Further details of the papers, data handling course, and practical requirements shall be set out in that Handbook.
2. 2. Candidates will be required to take three papers, each lasting three hours, as follows:
   1. Paper 1: Organisms
   2. Paper 2: Cells and Genes
   3. Paper 3: Ecology
3. 3. Candidates will be required to complete satisfactorily a course on data handling.
4. 4. All candidates will be required to undertake a course of practical work, including laboratory exercises, computing classes and the first year field course. Practical Class co-ordinators and the convenor for the field course shall make available to the chairman of the examiners records showing the extent to which each candidate has pursued an adequate course of practical work. The moderators may request coursework from any candidate; such candidates will be named in a list posted by the day of the first written paper. Each notebook submitted shall be accompanied by a certificate signed by the candidate indicating that the notebook is the candidate’s own work. Failure to complete the coursework to the satisfaction of the moderators, in the absence of appropriate documentary evidence, may result in a reduction of the Honour Moderation class. Under extreme conditions this may constitute failure of the examination.
5. 5. The moderators will not provide calculators, but will permit the use of any hand-held pocket calculator subject to the conditions set out under the heading ‘Use of calculators in examinations’ in the Special Regulations concerning Examinations.