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Final Exam Policies

The following information pertains to the Business, Education, Engineering, Liberal Arts and Sciences, Nursing, and Graduate Colleges.

General Plan:

This examination schedule specifically separates the time listing of single- and multi-sectioned courses. Most single-sectioned courses have their examinations scheduled according to the time of the first weekly class meeting time. A multi-section course is defined as a course which does not have a common meeting time for all sections.

Conflict Adjustments:

During fall semester, courses having lower department numbers, or lower course numbers when the conflict is within a department, will take precedence.

During spring semester, courses having higher department numbers, or higher course numbers when the conflict is within a department, will take precedence.

No student is required to take more than three examinations in one day. A potential problem may be eased by students closely checking the exam schedule. An undergraduate student who has (a) two examinations scheduled for the same period or (b) more than three examinations scheduled for the same day, may file a request for a change of schedule at the Registrar Service Center, 17 Calvin Hall. Please see the academic deadlines calendar for the last day to file for final exam conflicts. Graduate students arrange for necessary adjustments directly with their instructors.

Names of students for whom changes have been approved and copies of their final examination schedules will be forwarded to instructors. By analyzing these schedules, instructors can plan alternate periods so that they fall at times that are free on the students' schedules. Instructors are to announce alternate arrangements to all students involved.

Should a student have more than one alternate exam scheduled at one time, the lower number course will have precedence in the fall and in the spring the higher numbered course will have precedence. However, alternate examinations never have precedence over regularly scheduled ones.

Schedule Regulations Regarding Final Examinations:

1. Instructors must announce their classes the times and locations of their examinations.

2. Instructors must give final examinations at the time specified in the schedule unless a change is approved in advance, in writing, by the Dean of the College. (The Registrar's Office will attempt, but cannot guarantee, a requested date/time change.)

3. Final examinations of classes meeting at times not listed in the schedule will be arranged and announced by the instructors.

4. Multi-sectioned courses without a common lecture time and which are not listed in the Final Examination Schedule are treated as single-sectioned courses with each section giving a seperate test. Courses that have a single lecture will test according to the meeting time of the lecture.

5. Examination periods are two hours in length and begin at the following times: 7:30 a.m., 9:45 a.m., 12:00 noon, 2:15 p.m., 4:30 p.m., and 7:00 p.m.

6. Schedules for classes meeting for the first time on Monday daytime* apply also to classes meeting for the first time on Wednesday and Friday. Schedules for Tuesday daytime* classes apply to classes meeting for the first time on Thursday.

7. Classes meeting at a time other than on the half-hour are tested with classes of the preceding half-hour. Example - 8:05 a.m. classes are tested at the same time as the 7:30 a.m. classes, or 6:00 p.m. classes are tested at the same time as 5:30 p.m. classes.

8. Only final examinations will be given during the final examination week.

9. The official room assignment schedule will be published at a later date. Instructors of multi-section courses and single-section courses with enrollments of 100 or more should not assume that the final examination will be given in the classroom(s) scheduled for regular class meetings.

10. Instructors who have a test in a period in which single section times are combined should contact Space Planning at 335-1243 to reserve a room.

The examination schedule is prepared by the Office of the Registrar, 1 Jessup Hall, 335-0238.

*Daytime classes are classes that meet before 4:30 p.m.