Make-up Tests
It is the faculty member's prerogative to allow a student to make up an exam. It is understandable that students sometimes have legitimate reasons (e.g., family emergencies) that make rescheduling necessary. If a student should miss an exam without notifying the instructor in advance, the student may, at the instructor's discretion, receive a failing grade for that exam. If the student makes such notification prior to the exam, the instructor will determine whether a make-up may be given.
1. Faculty should include explicit guidelines for make-up exams in their syllabi. Conditions under which make-up exams may be taken and in which they may not should be explicit. Faculty should discourage students from taking make-up exams, and those students who are granted make up exams should take the exam in a timely manner. Division Heads can work with faculty to craft appropriate language to express the faculty member’s make-up exam policy.
2. To ensure the best possible proctoring of make-up exams, faculty should make every effort to proctor their own make-up exams, during their office hours or at whatever time, in whatever location, best suits the needs of the student and the faculty member.
3. If scheduling issues prevent the student and the faculty member from finding a time for the faculty member to proctor the make-up exam, faculty may contact the Testing Center to arrange for the exam to be taken in the Testing Center, Room 223 Sutherland. Exams should be sent to the testing center via interoffice mail, and must be accompanied by the testing center form, which can be downloaded here. Cameras in the Center allow the student to be observed; if cases of apparent cheating, a copy of the video will be forwarded to the instructor for whose course the make-exam up is being taken.
4.Students may schedule and cancel make-up exams online. They may also contact the testing center by phone at 215-881-7588 or by email.
5. If a student misses or cancels a scheduled day and time for a make-up exam without contacting the Testing Center beforehand and rescheduling, the exam will be returned to the faculty member. Students who excessively cancel and reschedule an exam may also be denied additional appointments at the testing center
