Final Examination Schedules and Restrictions
The Registrar's Office has assigned a specific time and date for the administration of final examinations in most courses in Yale College. The time of the final examination is determined by the meeting time of a course during the term and is indicated by the examination group number included in the course data line in chapter IV of the YCPS. Examination group numbers are assigned particular days and times within the final examination period. These may be found tabulated on the page "Final Examination Schedules" at the front of the YCPS.
If the meeting time of a course is changed from that published for the course in the YCPS, the time of the examination is defined by the new meeting time.
Before the last week of classes, the Registrar's Office publishes a final examination schedule which lists the time and place of each regularly scheduled examination. The schedule is posted on line. Instructors should be sure to announce the date and location of the final examination two or three times during the last week of classes. If a change is necessary (e.g., the addition of an examination, a change in room, the cancellation of an examination), the instructor should e-mail Diane Rodrigues so that a correction may be issued.
Since the final examination schedule has been carefully designed to make efficient use of the entire final examination period and to minimize overcrowding of students' schedules, a final examination must be administered on the date and at the time specified. On occasion instructors have administered final examinations at times different from those shown on the final examination schedule. This is permitted under the following conditions: (a) that two final examinations be administered; (b) that one of these examinations be administered at the regularly specified time within final examination period; and (c) that the alternative examination be administered during final examination period. No student should be required to obtain special permission to sit for the alternative examination.
