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What is a tripos?

What is a tripos? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (obsolete) A three-legged structure; a tripod.
  2. Any of the final examinations for a BA honours degree at Cambridge University.
  3. The list of successful candidates in such an examination.
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Ansell, at the end of his third year, got a first in the Moral Science tripos.
I became interested in Renaissance while studying for the tripos in Cambridge.
He was the first ever to take both parts of the law tripos examinations in the same year, and in both he came first.
He was a Chinese immigrant at the University of Cambridge, and he needed to pass Part One of the mathematical tripos examination in order to go further.
During the second semester language support classes will continue, but UAG students will take relevant courses from the University of Siegen History tripos.
This 'consolation stakes' is regarded as a better test of originality than the tripos.

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