Student Procedures for Exams

Failure to Abide by Exam Procedures

Procedures for taking final exams are established by the Registrar’s Office. Each final exam period the Registrar’s Office publishes the procedures for examinations. Students are responsible for knowing and following these procedures.

All courses require a final paper, final project, final exam, or other equivalent final piece of work. At least one portion of this assignment must be due during the exam period.

If you have any questions about final assignments or exams, please contact your class dean.

Breaches of exam procedures include, but are not limited to:

Bringing a cell phone, ipad/tablet/laptop, smart watch or any device with internet connection into an exam classroom.
Exceeding the time permitted on the exam (i.e. turning the exam in past the three hours allotted to take the exam).
Communication of any kind in the exam classroom.
Taking a special exam in a non-designated classroom or taking a regular exam in a special writing classroom.
Using extra material in Hood Dining Room if you have only been permitted to be in the room for timer use and your exam does not allow extra material.
Taking an exam in Hood Dining Room without a timer device and timer stamp.
Leaving the designated exam areas or leaving the building before the completed exam has been returned to the Exam Distribution Center.
Bringing outside materials, including calculators, cell phones, or internet connected devices into exam classrooms. Exams with special permissions (i.e. use of a calculator) must be taken in the designated special writing exam classrooms. The calculator may not be an internet connected device (i.e. smartphone).
Using a cell phone, smart watch, or other internet connected device as a timer.
Excessive noise within the exam building.
Using substances in an exam building.

The following pledge must be signed on every exam before it is handed in for grading:

“I promise neither to give nor receive any aid on this examination.”

Students must complete final exams in designated classrooms. All exam material must be returned to the Exam Distribution Center, sealed in the envelope with the Honor Pledge signed.

The Honor Code applies to all students enrolled at the College.

Additional information about taking exams at Connecticut College can be found here.


Self-Scheduled Exam Procedures The instructor supplies sealed exam envelopes with exams for each student enrolled for credit. The exam envelope must display the student's name, course number and instructor's name. To check out an exam, the student comes to the Exam Distribution Center, completes an online check-out form, and provides identification (license with photo or other picture ID required). Except for special exams (identified with a colored extra material label on the envelope) which must be written in designated classrooms, the student selects a writing classroom in the building in which the exam was distributed and may not leave the exam building until the completed exam in a sealed exam envelope has been checked back in and handed to an Exam Distribution Center staff member. Students who have been issued a timer device must take their exam in Hood Dining Room (identified with a timer stamp or a timer stamp and extra material label). Cell phones, ipads/tablets/laptops, smart watches or any devices with internet connection are never permitted in any exam rooms. No outside materials, including calculators, are permitted, except for special examinations where the material is explicitly indicated. You may use a cell phone in the Exam Distribution Center to scan the QR code to check out & check in your exam. Students must leave their cell phones, any other internet connected devices, and backpacks in the Exam Distribution Center and collect them after they have returned from taking their exam. Cell phones and other internet connected devices may not be used as timers. The exam writing time is three hours. All exams must be checked back in and handed to an Exam Distribution Center staff member at the end of three hours to be in compliance with exam procedures. A student may not have an exam in their possession for more than three hours. All exams must be returned no later than 5:30 p.m. on the first four days, or 12 p.m. (noon) on the last day. Students who check out exams after 2:30 p.m. on the first four days, or after 9:00 a.m. on the last day will only have the remaining time (less than three hours) in the exam period to complete and return their exam. Students must sign the honor pledge on the exam envelope. When the exam has been completed, all exam material including the exam sheet or test booklet and blue book(s) used must be placed in the envelope provided. The envelope must be sealed with the label available in the Exam Distribution Center indicating "sealed by student". The student completes an exam check-in form and hands the envelope to the Exam Distribution Center staff member. Exam Reminders You may not leave the building with an exam Place all exam materials in the envelope, check in the exam, and return the sealed envelope to the Exam Distribution Center staff member All exams MUST be returned no later than three hours after the exam has been checked out in order to be in compliance with exam procedures. Students who check out exams after 2:30 p.m. on the first four days, or after 9:00 a.m. on the last day will only have the remaining time in the exam period (less than three hours) to complete and return their exam. Cell phones, ipads/tablets/laptops, smart watches or any devices with internet connection are never permitted in any exam classrooms. You may use a cell phone in the Exam Distribution Center to scan the QR code to check out & check in your exam. Students must leave their cell phones, any other internet connected devices, and backpacks in the Exam Distribution Center and collect them after they have returned from taking their exam.

Self-Scheduled Exam Procedures

The instructor supplies sealed exam envelopes with exams for each student enrolled for credit. The exam envelope must display the student's name, course number and instructor's name.
To check out an exam, the student comes to the Exam Distribution Center, completes an online check-out form, and provides identification (license with photo or other picture ID required).
Except for special exams (identified with a colored extra material label on the envelope) which must be written in designated classrooms, the student selects a writing classroom in the building in which the exam was distributed and may not leave the exam building until the completed exam in a sealed exam envelope has been checked back in and handed to an Exam Distribution Center staff member. Students who have been issued a timer device must take their exam in Hood Dining Room (identified with a timer stamp or a timer stamp and extra material label).
Cell phones, ipads/tablets/laptops, smart watches or any devices with internet connection are never permitted in any exam rooms. No outside materials, including calculators, are permitted, except for special examinations where the material is explicitly indicated. You may use a cell phone in the Exam Distribution Center to scan the QR code to check out & check in your exam. Students must leave their cell phones, any other internet connected devices, and backpacks in the Exam Distribution Center and collect them after they have returned from taking their exam. Cell phones and other internet connected devices may not be used as timers.
The exam writing time is three hours. All exams must be checked back in and handed to an Exam Distribution Center staff member at the end of three hours to be in compliance with exam procedures. A student may not have an exam in their possession for more than three hours. All exams must be returned no later than 5:30 p.m. on the first four days, or 12 p.m. (noon) on the last day. Students who check out exams after 2:30 p.m. on the first four days, or after 9:00 a.m. on the last day will only have the remaining time (less than three hours) in the exam period to complete and return their exam.
Students must sign the honor pledge on the exam envelope. When the exam has been completed, all exam material including the exam sheet or test booklet and blue book(s) used must be placed in the envelope provided. The envelope must be sealed with the label available in the Exam Distribution Center indicating "sealed by student". The student completes an exam check-in form and hands the envelope to the Exam Distribution Center staff member.

Exam Reminders

You may not leave the building with an exam
Place all exam materials in the envelope, check in the exam, and return the sealed envelope to the Exam Distribution Center staff member
All exams MUST be returned no later than three hours after the exam has been checked out in order to be in compliance with exam procedures. Students who check out exams after 2:30 p.m. on the first four days, or after 9:00 a.m. on the last day will only have the remaining time in the exam period (less than three hours) to complete and return their exam.
Cell phones, ipads/tablets/laptops, smart watches or any devices with internet connection are never permitted in any exam classrooms. You may use a cell phone in the Exam Distribution Center to scan the QR code to check out & check in your exam. Students must leave their cell phones, any other internet connected devices, and backpacks in the Exam Distribution Center and collect them after they have returned from taking their exam.


Incompletes Students who have participated in class and completed the majority of the work in the class but not completed all course requirements because of emergency or illness may request a temporary grade of Incomplete. Incompletes may only be granted after Limited Withdrawal ends and through the end of the examination period. Students should consult both the instructor and their class dean, and must submit the request officially to the instructor no later than the end of the examination period. Leave/Other Departures If you will not be enrolled in the College for the next semester, you will need to file paperwork with the Dean of the College’s office. Please contact your class dean as soon as possible. Filing this paperwork will prevent you from receiving bills for the next semester and will allow the College to plan appropriately for your leave.

Incompletes

Students who have participated in class and completed the majority of the work in the class but not completed all course requirements because of emergency or illness may request a temporary grade of Incomplete. Incompletes may only be granted after Limited Withdrawal ends and through the end of the examination period. Students should consult both the instructor and their class dean, and must submit the request officially to the instructor no later than the end of the examination period.

Leave/Other Departures

If you will not be enrolled in the College for the next semester, you will need to file paperwork with the Dean of the College’s office. Please contact your class dean as soon as possible.

Filing this paperwork will prevent you from receiving bills for the next semester and will allow the College to plan appropriately for your leave.