Tripos
Sign in to saveA Tripos (, plural 'Triposes') is an academic examination that originated at the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. The term encompasses both the examinations required for undergraduate students to qualify for a bachelor's degree and the courses of study undertaken to prepare for such examinations. Undergraduate students studying mathematics, for instance, ultimately take the Mathematical Tripos, and students of English literature take the English Tripos.
Key facts
- Examination.name
- Cambridge Tripos
- Examination.image_name
- Cambridge-University-Senate-House.jpg
- Examination.caption
- Tripos results were posted publicly outside departments and the Senate House until 2021.
- Examination.duration
- 3 or 4 years
- Examination.regions
- University of Cambridge
- Examination.language
- English language
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- Etymology
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- List of Triposes
- Triposes recently abolished, renamed or restructured
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A Tripos (, plural 'Triposes') is an academic examination that originated at the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. The term encompasses both the examinations required for undergraduate students to qualify for a bachelor's degree and the courses of study undertaken to prepare for such examinations. Undergraduate students studying mathematics, for instance, ultimately take the Mathematical Tripos, and students of English literature take the English Tripos.
==Etymology== The word has an obscure etymology, but may derive from the three-legged stools, known as tripods, on which candidates once sat during oral examinations. According to an unverified tradition, students are said to have received one leg of a stool during each of their three years of exams, and the complete stool upon graduation. Another tradition holds that the name derives from the three brackets printed on the back of the voucher.