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Honour School of Biological Sciences

A

  • 1. The subject of the Honour School of Biological Sciences shall be the study of Biological Sciences.

  • 2. No candidate shall be admitted to examination in this school unless he or she has either passed or been exempted from the First Public Examination.

  • 3. The examination in this school shall be under the supervision of the Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Board, which shall prescribe the necessary regulations.

  • 4. The examination in Biological Sciences shall consist of Part I (taken at a time not less than two terms after passing the First Public Examination) and Part II (taken at a time not less than five terms after passing the First Public Examination).

  • 5. The name of a candidate shall not be published in a Results List until he or she has completed all parts of the examination. The examiners shall give due consideration to the performance in all parts of the respective examinations.

  • 6. Candidates will be expected to show knowledge based on practical work. This requirement shall normally be satisfied by the examiners’ assessment of the practical laboratory work done by candidates in Part I based on attendance records and/or marks awarded.

  • 7. Exceptionally, the examiners may require a candidate to submit all their practical notebooks.

  • 8. Candidates whose overall practical performance is not deemed satisfactory by the examiners may have their degree class reduced. If the work is judged by the examiners to be insufficient to warrant the award of Honours they may either be deemed to have failed the examination, or may, at the discretion of the examiners, be awarded a Pass.

B

  • 1. The subjects of the examination shall be those prescribed in the Regulations for Parts I and II.

  • 2. The examiners will permit the use of any hand-held calculator subject to the conditions set out under the heading ‘Use of calculators in examinations’ in the Regulations for the Conduct of University Examinations.

  • 3. Supplementary Subjects

    • (a) In addition, candidates may offer themselves for examination in one or more Supplementary Subjects.

    • (b) Candidates for Supplementary Subjects may offer themselves for examination in the academic year preceding that in which they take the Part II written examinations of the Final Honour School.

    • (c) Candidates awarded a pass in a Supplementary Subject examination may not retake the same Supplementary Subject examination.

    • (d) The Supplementary Subjects available in any year will be published, together with the term in which each subject will be examined, in the Final Honour School Handbook (Section 1) at the start of Michaelmas Term of the academic year in which the Supplementary Subjects may be taken.