Catalogs & Handbooks

Exams

The Incomplete

Students must provide notice of absence from a final examination to the student to the Associate Dean of Academic Success, the Registrar, and the instructor of the course before the scheduled time of the examination.

Regular Examinations

Instructors may give quizzes and tests with sufficient frequency to enable students to have a reasonably accurate measure of their level of work in a course as the semester proceeds. This rule applies with special force to first-year and sophomore courses.

Final Examinations
Course final assessments should only be given during finals week, at the day and time specified in that semester’s final exam schedule. No tests or exams may be given in the last week of courses (immediately preceding finals week), unless the course also has a mandatory comprehensive assessment during finals week.
 
The duration of final examinations should not exceed two- and one-half hours (except as enabled for particular students by OAS accommodations). Take-home examinations may be distributed at the last class meeting for submission to the instructor during the final examination period.
 
The Registrar’s Office sets the final examination schedule. Change in the established time of a final examination may be requested, in exceptional cases only, subject to approval by the Registrar.  Final examinations should be retained by the faculty member at least until the middle of the semester following their administration, to permit students to review them if they are interested in doing so.
Making Up Work

Responsibility for handing in all announced papers, reports, and projects on time rests entirely with the student. Instructors may penalize late work. A student who has missed an examination or test is responsible for making it up and must take the initiative to reach out and plan to make-up examination/test with the instructor. Instructors are not obliged to prepare make-up exams unless the student’s absence was occasioned by serious and unavoidable reasons. Students who are members of varsity sports teams and who must miss an exam because of a scheduled sports event may make-up exams. In such cases, responsibility for informing the professor of an absence for an exam and for scheduling a make-up exam date rests solely with the individual student.