2025-26 Part A Examination in Mathematics

4. Examination Conduct

You will receive advice from the examiners before each part of your finals examination. These notices provide information on the conduct of the examinations including the use of calculators and how to complete and submit answer booklets. Notices from examiners from previous years can be found on the Mathematical Institute's website. 

Penalties for Non-attendance

Rules governing non-attendance at examinations and any consequent penalties are set out in full in the Examination Regulations (Regulations for the Conduct of University Examinations, Part 14). If you will be prevented by illness or other urgent cause from attending one of your examinations you should contact your college office or college tutor as soon as possible. In cases where the Proctors do not believe there are satisfactory reasons for non-attendance or an application to the Proctors has not been submitted, this will result in the technical failure of that exam paper. The examiners will award a mark of 0 for that paper.  A student with a technical fail on one paper may  enter to resit that paper on at most one subsequent occasion, at the time of taking their Part B examinations. The University Standardised Mark for the resit of the exam paper will be capped at 40.  A student with a technical fail on two or more papers will be considered not to have completed Part A and will have to resit all of the Part A exam papers before proceeding to Part B.  The marks of a student resitting all papers will not be capped.