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A Tripos (/ ˈ t r aɪ p ɒ s / ⓘ, plural 'Triposes') is an academic examination that originated at the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England.They include any of several examinations required to qualify an undergraduate student for a bachelor's degree [1] or the courses taken by a student to prepare for these.
In its classical nineteenth-century form, the tripos was a distinctive written examination of undergraduate students of the University of Cambridge.Prior to 1824, the Mathematical Tripos was formally known as the "Senate House Examination". [2]
The Classical Tripos is the taught course in classics at the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge.It is equivalent to Literae Humaniores at Oxford University.It is traditionally a three-year degree, but for those who have not previously studied Latin and Greek, a four-year course has been introduced.
The Natural Sciences Tripos is the framework within which most of the science at the University of Cambridge is taught. The tripos includes a wide range of Natural Sciences from physics, astronomy, and geoscience, to chemistry and biology, which are taught alongside the history and philosophy of science.
At the University of Cambridge in England, a "Wrangler" is a student who gains first-class honours in the Mathematical Tripos competition. The highest-scoring student is the Senior Wrangler, the second highest is the Second Wrangler, and so on.
Results for parts II and III of the Mathematical Tripos are read out inside Senate House, University of Cambridge and then tossed from the balcony.. Part III of the Mathematical Tripos (officially Master of Mathematics/Master of Advanced Study) is a one-year master's-level taught course in mathematics offered at the Faculty of Mathematics, University of Cambridge.
Tripos (BA) An Archaeology and Anthropology Tripos has been taught at Cambridge for more than one hundred years. A Politics, Psychology and Sociology Tripos (previously known as Social and Political Sciences, "SPS") has been running at Cambridge University, in some form, since 1970. In 2013 the PPS and A&A Triposes were replaced by the Human ...
The Faculty of Classics is one of the constituent departments of the University of Cambridge.It teaches the Classical Tripos.The Faculty is divided into five caucuses (i.e. areas of research and teaching); literature, ancient philosophy, ancient history, Classical art and archaeology, linguistics, and interdisciplinary studies.