Postponement of Final Examinations
The residential college dean may authorize the postponement of a final examination missed because of an incapacitating illness, because of a family emergency requiring the student's absence from New Haven, because of the observance of religious holy days, or because of participation required in an intercollegiate athletic event scheduled out of town on the day of the examination. The residential college dean may also authorize postponement of a final examination if a student has three examinations scheduled during the first two days of the final examination period, or three final examinations scheduled consecutively.
A student's end-of-term travel plans are not a basis for the postponement of a final examination. If the postponement of a final examination is occasioned by a conflict or by a crowded examination schedule, and if one of the examinations involved carries the published examination group number 0, the residential college dean must postpone that examination rather than an examination governed by a regular examination group number. See "Final Examination Schedules and Restrictions" and "When No Examination Time Is Assigned" under "Reading Period and Final Examination Period." Permission to postpone a final examination does not authorize a student to submit other work late in the course. See "Work Incomplete at the End of Term."
When a makeup examination has been authorized, the instructor is informed as promptly as possible. The authorization form serves both to notify the instructor and to request the instructor to prepare a makeup examination. Makeup examinations may be administered by the instructor or by the registrar at the choice of the instructor. Instructors who choose to have the registrar administer the makeup examination should promptly furnish the registrar with a copy of the examination to be given. After the student has taken the examination, it is returned to the instructor for grading.
Makeup examinations for the fall term are administered at the beginning of the following spring term. Makeup examinations for the spring term are administered to freshmen, sophomores, and juniors at the beginning of the following fall term. For seniors, makeup examinations for the spring term are administered immediately after final examination period in the spring term.
