Examination Procedures

  1. All examinations are governed by the honor system. See paragraph 2.4.
  2. Each semester, the dean will post updated exam policies and procedures. The following general rules apply:
    1. Students may handwrite exams using bluebooks or type exams using a laptop computer with security testing software approved by the law school.
    2. Students may not bring any written material into the examination room unless (l) the instructor announces otherwise in advance, and (2) the instructions on the examination state that students may refer to written materials during the examination.
    3. For in-person exams, in order to permit timely distribution of examination materials, students must be seated in the examination room at least 15 minutes before the start of the examination.
    4. Examinations are identified by an anonymous number system. For identification, students are required to use their assigned exam number in lieu of their name on exams. Students shall not write anything else until the administrator tells students to start the examination.
    5. Students who leave the room during the examination may not take their question sheets or answer booklets with them.
    6. Except for placing their exam number on the exam, students shall not begin to write or type until the administrator tells the students to start. When the administrator announces that the time is up, students must stop writing or typing immediately even if in mid-sentence. Answer booklets and question sheets shall be placed one inside the next and turned in immediately to the administrator. The administrator will not accept the answer booklets of students who violate these time rules; such students must turn them in at the dean's office where the violation will be noted on the cover of the answer booklets. If a student violates these time rules, the instructor must lower the grade by the amount the instructor deems justified in the circumstances.
    7. After receiving the grade in a course, a student may look over the final examination. Final examinations are kept on file for one year; after one year they are destroyed unless the instructor or the dean directs otherwise.
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