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Final Examinations

Next-to-Last Week

No instructor may schedule an examination — comprehensive or noncomprehensive — except for laboratory and practicum courses, during the week preceding the last week of a fall or spring semester.

Final Week

With the exception of those courses classified as individual instruction, clinic, studio, practice teaching, research, or distance courses and those offered for zero credits, each class is expected to meet for a two-hour session during the last week of each fall or spring semester. The two-hour session may be used for

  1. a final examination,
  2. a last, non-comprehensive examination,
  3. submission of out-of-class examination or assignments, or
  4. a regular class meeting.

Conflicts

If you

  1. are scheduled to take more than two final examinations in one day,
  2. have conflicting final-examinations, or
  3. are scheduled to take a state, national, or professional licensing examination,

you may contact the instructors involved prior to the last week of a fall or spring semester to obtain appropriate rescheduling.

If you and the instructors cannot agree upon a rescheduling, the vice chancellor for academic affairs shall investigate and issue a binding schedule.

Absences

If you miss a final examination because of an emergency, you must contact the instructor as soon as possible. If you miss a final examination, you may receive a grade of F for the course.

Purdue University