This is to acknowledge receipt of your request for information. Your reference number is given in the subject line of this email. We will respond on or before 17 December 2021.

Regards,

Information Compliance Office
University of Cambridge
Governance and Compliance Division, The Old Schools Trinity Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1TN
E: [University of Cambridge request email]

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Dear Ciara,

This message is in response to your FOI request for mark schemes and
solutions for the last 5 years of Maths Tripos exams. (We are assuming
here that you are the current Part II student of the same name and
apologise if that’s not the case.)

Faculty policies on the availability and distribution of "model answers"
have been agreed with the best educational outcomes for all students
firmly in mind. In particular, we believe that there are sound reasons for
not simply making all examiners' solutions more widely available, and this
raises obvious problems, on grounds of fairness, if they should become
available to a subset of students.

We are therefore concerned about the adverse implications of your request
for students generally, and we would like to understand better your
reasons and motivations for making the request. We would be more than
happy to discuss this and hear any views you may have on the way the
current policy operates (you are also able to raise such issues with the
student representatives on Faculty Board or the Teaching Committee).

It would be very helpful to hear back from you so that we could see if
there are more constructive ways to proceed.

Best wishes

Jonathan Evans

John Lister

(in our roles as

Director of Undergraduate Education and

Chair of the Teaching Committee)

Further to your request for information, please find attached the University’s response.

Regards,

Information Compliance Office
University of Cambridge
Governance and Compliance Division, The Old Schools
Trinity Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1TN
E: [University of Cambridge request email]

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