Undergraduate Student Guide 2012-2013 - Selwyn College ...

You might begin, however, by visiting the Centre’s website at:
http://www.langcen.cam.ac.uk
The Language Centre also provides on-line language learning materials for University of Cambridge
users. Resources include audios, videos, text, image and interactive exercises in a range of languages.
The resource library catalogue can be found at:
http://lconline.langcen.cam.ac.uk
NB: This site is only accessible from computers connected to the University network.
3.3 EXAMINATIONS
In this section it has sometimes been necessary to adopt the University’s technical terminology. The
terms used may seem unduly complicated or obscure, but you will appreciate that this is an area where
the precise formal position must be stated.
Examinations are the responsibility of the University, not the colleges, and are held in various central
locations. Most take place in the second half of the Easter Term, i.e. sometime after the middle of May.
You will be sent your own personalized timetable by the University at the beginning of that term.
Undergraduates in a minority of subjects sit some or all of their papers at the beginning of the Easter
Term and, in a very small number of cases, in mid-January. You will be given due warning by your DoS
if this is the case in your subject.
3.3.1 Tripos and Preliminary Examinations
Each subject has its own Tripos, divided into two or three parts. To qualify for the BA degree, you need
successfully to have passed both Part I (often divided into a Part IA and a Part IB) and Part II of either
the same Tripos or two different Triposes.
The College requires all undergraduates to sit an exam at the end of each year. These are normally Tripos
or University Prelim exams. Where there is no University exam, or where the DoS judges it more
appropriate, a College exam will be set.
In order to proceed with your studies at Selwyn, you must each year achieve at least the minimum
honours standard (Class Three or above).
3.3.2 Examination Entries
The submission and checking of examination entries is a huge operation involving a number of different
individuals in addition to the candidates themselves. The University is obliged to operate a very tightly
controlled system. It is therefore vital you precisely follow the procedures outlined below. You will,
however, receive at the appropriate time a separate document spelling out what you have to do and
when.
In the Michaelmas Term, you will be asked by your DoS to complete an examination entry form on-line
via CamSIS (see above: 2.6.5). In the Lent Term, the University will send you by email an ‘examination
entry verification form’ listing the papers for which you have been entered. If the entry is correct, you are
asked to confirm this on-line. If it is incorrect, you must immediately give details to the Senior Tutor’s
Assistant.
No corrections to exam entries are accepted by the University after the end of the Lent Term.
A fine of £30 will be levied on all those who fail to verify their exam entry by the due date and whose
entry is subsequently found to be incorrect. In such circumstances, the University will normally insist on
the candidate sitting the papers as entered on the form. In the exceptional event of a late change of paper
being allowed, the University will always insist on that paper being taken in College, in which case the
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