(1) Information concerning proficiency examinations may be obtained
from the student’s college or from the department concerned.
Except as provided in subsection (2)(E) below, a student must
secure the consent of the head or chairperson of the department
concerned to take these examinations.
(2) Departmental proficiency examinations may be taken only by the following:
(A) Students who are enrolled for courses on the Urbana-Champaign campus.
(A person attending as an auditor only is not considered to be a current student.) For the purpose of this rule, a current student who has completed the work of a semester is considered to be under registration for fifteen days after the close of the final examination period, except that a student who has completed the work of the spring semester or the summer session is considered to be still under registration for the purpose of this rule up to the end of the registration period for the fall semester.
(B) Proficiency examinations for advanced standing and special examinations in courses that have been failed may be taken by graduating seniors at any time designated by the instructor within the time limits of subsection (2)(A) above. (See § 3-204 on special examinations.)
(C) Persons who have been previously registered in a degree program and are currently registered in guided individual study or extramural courses.
(D) Persons not registered in the University at the time but who are candidates for undergraduate degrees at the University of Illinois and who need no more than ten semester hours to complete the requirements for their degrees. (See subsection (2)(B) above.)
(E) Prospective students who participate in the advanced placement and proficiency testing sessions offered during the New Student Registration. Credit earned by this method does not become a part of the student’s University record until after he or she has completed registration.
(3) A proficiency examination may not be taken either to raise
a grade or to earn credit in a course that has been failed. (See
§ 3-204 on special examinations.)
(4) An examination for credit in a college subject of elementary
character is not granted to a student who has received credit
for more than one semester of work in the subject in advance of
the course in which the examination is requested.
(5) The grade in proficiency examinations is PS or F, but students
are not given a grade of PS unless they have made at least C-
in the examination. No official record is made of failures in
these examinations, but some departments may prohibit a student
from retaking the examination.
(6) Proficiency examinations are generally given without cost
to the student; a fee may be charged to defray the cost of proficiency
examinations prepared by agencies outside the University.
(7) Students wishing to take a proficiency examination in a
subject not offered at the campus at which they are or have been
registered, but offered at another campus of the University, may
do so upon satisfying the above conditions, provided they obtain
approval from their primary campus (the campus at which they were
last registered) for concurrent registration prior to taking the
examination.
(1) Proficiency examinations for advanced standing are offered
in all University courses normally open to freshmen and sophomores.
A student may take proficiency examinations in more advanced undergraduate
courses on recommendation of the head or chairperson of the department
and approval of the dean of the college.
(2) Undergraduate students who pass a proficiency examination
are given credit toward graduation for the amount regularly allowed
in the course, provided such credit does not duplicate credit
counted for admission to the University and provided the credit
is acceptable in their curriculum.
(3) Credit earned by a proficiency examination does not count
toward satisfying the minimum requirement of sixty semester hours of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign credit, of which at least 21 hours must be 300 or 400 level courses at the Urbana-Champaign campus. (See § 3-801 on credit requirements for degrees.)
Graduate students may satisfy specific requirements by proficiency
examinations, but such credit cannot be applied toward graduate
degrees.
