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Advances in pedagogy and variations in practice across fields have broadened the range of commonly used end‐of‐semester evaluative exercises beyond traditional sit‐down final examinations. The rules and guidelines governing exams aim to protect students from unreasonable demands on their time while simultaneously providing instructors the flexibility to design evaluative exercises appropriate to their courses.
The Academic Calendar sets aside, after the last week of classes, a study period followed by a period for final examinations. The Office of the University Registrar assigns a specific day and time for a course’s final exam or final deliverable due date within the final examination period.
The designated final exam days and times are scheduled carefully to minimize conflicts and spread students’ workloads as evenly as possible over the exam period. In addition, it is university policy to discourage more than two examinations for a student in one twenty‐four hour time period. No traditional final examination may be administered at a time other than that assigned by the Office of the University Registrar without prior written permission of the Dean of the University Faculty: deanoffaculty@cornell.edu.
Members of the faculty are urged to grant student requests for a make‐up examination, particularly if their course is the largest of the three involved and thus has the strongest likelihood of offering a makeup for other valid reasons.
For additional information, see faculty legislation on Final Exam Policy, or contact the Office of the Dean of the Faculty: deanoffaculty@cornell.edu.
For information regarding the role of the Office of the University Registrar in final exam scheduling, see registrar.cornell.edu/exams/final-exam-policies.
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