Miss Zoe Al wood
FOI Manager
Qianli Xia
By email
Reference: FOI-2023-1072
17 January 2024
Dear Qianli Xia,
Your request was received on 18 December 2023 and I am dealing with it under the terms of the
Freedom of Information Act 2000 (‘the Act’).
You asked:
Could you please kindly release the model solutions of Part IB mathematics tripos from 2012 to
2016?
If possible, could you please also release the model solutions of part IB mathematics tripos from
2018 to 2022?
The materials for 2012-2016 and 2018 have been compiled and are ready to be disclosed to you.
However, the file is around 390MB, which is not feasible to email, even across split files. If you could
supply us with a personal email address (e.g. a Gmail address) we can upload them to a Google Drive
for you to download a copy. Please note that, once you have accessed the file, the documentation
should not be copied, reproduced or used except in accordance with the law of copyright.
The materials for 2019-2022, being within the last 5 academic years, are refused under section 43(1) of
the Act as the information constitutes a trade secret (within the meaning of this term in the Act) and
under section 43(2) of the Act on the grounds that its disclosure would be likely to prejudice the
commercial interests of the University and/or individual academics by infringing the IP rights that they
own in the information. These materials are protected under the copyright and intellectual property
rights of the University and the individual academics involved in creating them. They are made
available in specific ways to registered students on the course, with whom they are used under specific
pedagogical conditions. As this is a qualified exemption, the University has considered whether, in all
the circumstances of the case, the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public
interest in disclosing the information. The University is aware of the general arguments concerning
transparency in its teaching and examination activities. However, the high degree of intellectual content
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in the materials, the extensive effort made by the individual academics to create them, and the need to
maintain teaching standards and quality assurance in its courses through the dissemination of
copyrighted materials at a time (and to the audience) of the University’s choosing, are collectively
considered to be decisive factors in favour of the maintenance of the exemption in this case.
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number above. The University would normally expect to receive your request for an internal review
within 40 working days of the date of this letter and reserves the right not to review a decision where
there has been undue delay in raising a complaint. If you are not content with the outcome of your
review, you may apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a decision. Generally, the
Information Commissioner cannot make a decision unless you have exhausted the complaints
procedure provided by the University. The Information Commissioner may be contacted at: The
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(https://ico.org.uk/).
Yours sincerely,
Zoe Al wood
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