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Regulations - End of Semester Reminders
TEST AND EXAMINATIONS
Lab tests and semester project reports and presentations are permissible during the final week of classes. Papers and homework may have a due date during the final week of classes only if scheduled in the syllabus. However, in order for students to prepare for final examinations, faculty members may not assign other tests, quizzes or additional papers during the final week of classes. Assignments should not have a due date during the final exam period unless the assignment constitutes a part of the final exam. Exceptions to this policy must be approved in advance by the department head and the dean of the college involved. Students should contact the appropriate instructor or department head if they believe an assignment is not in compliance with this regulation.
See Academic Regulation
at http://www.ncsu.edu/provost/academic_policies/exams/reg.htm
PROGRESS TOWARDS DEGREE WARNING LETTERS TO STUDENTS – After grades are posted this semester, students that entered in the Fall 2004 cohort who did not did not register as full-time students (a minimum course load of 12 semester hours) for both Fall 2004 and Spring 2005 semesters and/or who did not successfully complete at least 24 semester credit hours that count toward graduation in their major will receive progress warning letters directing them to confer with their departmental advisers. Though these students will be flagged for “Progress Warning” status, the academic units will have the authority to determine whether the flag remains or is waived for individual students. The process for making those determinations will be coordinated by the academic associate deans in each of the colleges.
FINAL EXAMINATION POLICY
Except
for research, seminar, tutorial, or studio courses, final examinations
should be given in all courses. Exemptions may be granted by the faculty
member responsible for a particular course or section provided prior
approval is obtained from the department head. Exemptions may be applied
to whole courses, sections, groups of students, or individual students,
provided that these exemptions are applied equitably to the students
in a particular course or section and comparable procedures are applied
to all sections of multiple-sectioned courses. http://www.ncsu.edu/provost/academic_policies/exams/reg.htm.
FINAL EXAMINATION SCHEDULE
Examination periods are
scheduled for three hours, and examinations must be given within these
scheduled periods. Exceptions require approval by the dean of the
college in which the course is taught.
See Academic Regulation
at http://www.ncsu.edu/provost/academic_policies/exams/reg.htm
THREE FINAL EXAMINATIONS
IN 24 HOURS
No student is required to
take more than two consecutively scheduled final examinations in a 24 hour
period. Should the scheduled examinations result in this situation
for an individual student, the student must consult Registration and Records
for schedule verification and to obtain a form approving an alternative
examination time for the course designated by the student. The form
is to be presented to the teacher in the course noting the alternative
exam date and time, and the student must return the signed form to Registration
and Records.
See Academic Regulation
at http://www.ncsu.edu/provost/academic_policies/exams/reg.htm
FINAL EXAM REVIEW POLICY
Teachers are not required
to return final examinations to students. However, if they elect
not to return final examinations to students, teachers must retain the
examination at least until mid-semester of the next regular semester and
must, during that period permit the student to schedule time to review
the examination at a mutually convenient time. In cases for which
the teacher is not on campus in the next regular semester, the department
head is expected to make reasonable efforts to assure that the examinations
are maintained in the department and to make provision for scheduled student
review. However, such opportunity to review examinations not being
available is not a basis for reexamination.
See Academic Regulation
at http://www.ncsu.edu/provost/academic_policies/exams/reg.htm
REEXAMINATION FOR SENIORS
Subject to the approval
of the department head and dean of the college in which a course is taught,
a senior who would graduate at the end of a given semester but for the
grade in a single course earned within the immediate past 12 months may
be given a reexamination and have the reexamination grade, if higher than
the original course grade, replace the course grade. The reexamination
grade can only be C+, C, C-, D+, D, D-, or F. This provision may be utilized
only once and only for one course.
See Academic Regulation
at http://www.ncsu.edu/provost/academic_policies/exams/reg.htm
GRADING SCALE
All courses and all students
in courses are subject to the use of the +/- grading scale. Teachers
are responsible to determine the performance recognizable by each grade.
See Academic Regulation
at: http://www.ncsu.edu/provost/academic_policies/grading/reg.htm
POSTING GRADES
Instructors are to remember to ask students
for consent before posting grades. Instuctors may also tell students to
check their grades from the Department
of Registration and Records web site using the TRACS LINK -- where
final student grades are posted less than 24-hours after they are received.
The students also have access to grade distribution reports from this site.
See Academic Regulations at http://www.ncsu.edu/provost/academic_regulations/grading/post/reg.htm
INCOMPLETE GRADES
The IN grade must only be
given in cases in which the student was unable to complete work, not
due to his or her own negligence,
in a course when the student's record in the course supports a projection
that passing the course is possible upon completion of the work. It
is NOT a substitute for an F or an LA. An IN is only appropriate
when the student's record in the course is such that the successful
completion of particular assignments, projects, or tests missed as a
result of a documented serious event would enable that student to pass
the course. INs
must be made up before the end of the next regular semester in which
the student is enrolled and in no case may be made up more than 12 months
after the end of the semester in which the IN is awarded, unless the
teacher or department offering the course is not able to provide the
student with an opportunity to make up incomplete work , in which case
the period can be extended. Make up work is to be limited to accomplishing
the work not completed.
See
Academic Regulation at: http://www.ncsu.edu/provost/academic_policies/grading/reg.htm
LATE GRADES
The LA grade is to be given
only in emergency cases where it is not possible for the instructor to
complete the determination of the grade by the deadline. It is not
interchangeable with the IN and it is the teacher's sole responsibility
to remove the grade with the determined grade. It results in students
receiving grade reports that are not final and is expected to be corrected
by the teacher within a few days.
See Academic Regulation
at: http://www.ncsu.edu/provost/academic_policies/grading/reg.htm
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