(1) Requirement for final examinations: Final examinations will
be given during the scheduled final examination period for each
course, except in a course that has a character that renders a
final examination unnecessary or impracticable. The head or chairperson
of the academic department in which the course is offered determines
when a final examination is not required.
(2) Change in final examination schedule: The Schedule of Final
Examinations for all colleges (except
Law and Veterinary Medicine), and the Institute of Aviation is prepared and published by the
Office of Facility Management and Scheduling. The schedule is
found online at www.fms.uiuc.edu/FinalExams.
Instructors must give final examinations at the time specified
in the Schedule of Final Examinations unless a change is approved
in advance by the Office of the Provost. Requests for change should
be submitted through the executive officer of the department in
which the course is offered and the dean of the appropriate college.
Permission will not be granted to those instructors wishing to
change final examinations to a time outside the final examination
week.
(3) Take-home final examinations: If take-home final examinations
are assigned, they are to be submitted at the time and date of
the regularly scheduled final examination. If instructors wish
to depart from this practice, they must follow the procedure for
changing the final examination schedule as outlined in the preceding
item.
(4) A student having more than two consecutive examinations:
No student should be required to take more than two consecutive
final examinations. In a semester, this means that a student taking
a final examination at 8:00 a.m. and another at 1:30 p.m. on the
same day cannot be required to take an examination that same evening.
However, the student could be required to take an examination
beginning at 8:00 a.m. the next day. Similarly, a student having
a final examination at 7:00 p.m. one day and another at 8:00 a.m.
the next day cannot be required to take an examination at 1:30
p.m. that second day. Any student having more than two consecutive
final examinations is entitled to rescheduling as follows if he
or she takes the following action no later than the last day of
classes:
(A) The student must investigate whether a conflict examination
is being held at another time for any of the examinations involved.
Note: Instructional staff members are urged to announce any
conflict final examinations by the last day of classes.
(B) If a conflict examination has been scheduled for any of
the courses, the student must take one or more of these conflict
examinations. If conflict examinations are offered for more
than one course, the student must take the conflict for the
course that has the largest number of students.
(C) If no conflict examinations have been scheduled, the student
must contact the instructor of the course having the largest
number of students. The contact must be made no later than the
last day of classes, and that instructor must provide a makeup
examination.
(5) Normally in a semester several combined-sections, conflict,
and noncombined examinations are given at the same time. As a
guide to resolving conflicts, an order of priority has been established
within each examination period, and a student should resolve a
conflict using the published examination schedules and the following
priority guidelines.
(A) National and state professional examinations (e.g., CPA,
actuarial science, Architecture Registration Examination) take
priority over campus final examinations. An instructor must
offer a conflict examination to a student scheduled to take
a national or state professional examination and a campus final
examination at the same time.
(B) A noncombined course examination has precedence over any
combined-sections or conflict examination.
(C) A department offering a combined-sections final examination
must provide a conflict examination if required to accommodate
student conflicts.
(1) Undergraduate students must obtain the approval of the dean
of their college to defer a final examination. Undergraduate students
who must miss a scheduled examination should report this fact
to the dean of their college as soon as possible and before the
examination period.
(2) For satisfactory reasons, students may be “excused”
by the dean of their college and examined later by their instructor.
Absence from a final examination for any other cause is reported
as a final grade of “absent” (ABS) in the course and
counts as a failure. (See § 3-103.)
