Please read this information carefully before the exam period begins. If you need further information or have any questions, please contact Deans DeVigne, Juni, or Monroe at 202.994.8320 or fax at 202.994.3696.
Exam Schedule
The Fall 2010 exam period begins Tuesday, December 7, and ends Friday, December 17. Exam locations are posted on the first-floor Stockton Hall chalkboard one hour before the scheduled start time of each exam. Student misunderstanding about the date or time of an exam is not a valid excuse for missing an exam.
Exam Administration
The Records Office and Dean of Students Office administer exams. During the exam period, the Records Office is open from 9 am until evening exams conclude Monday through Thursday, and 9 am until 5 pm on Fridays. A dean is available to students at all times when exams are administered. The Records Office telephone number is 202.994.6261, and the Dean of Students can be reached at 202.994.8320.
Rescheduling Exams
Students may not reschedule an exam. The exam schedule is provided at the time of registration, and students are responsible for avoiding exam conflicts. Professors cannot reschedule exams for individual students under any circumstances. All questions about exam scheduling must be addressed to the Office of the Dean of Students. Do not contact professors.
Emergencies Before the Exam
In the event an emergency (such as hospitalization or a death in the family) prevents you from taking an exam, to be excused from the exam you must immediately contact the Dean of Students Office. Students are not to contact professors. Documentation will be required. Students who are absent from an exam and not officially excused will receive a grade of F for the course. For more information, please see pages 14 of the Law School Bulletin.
Emergencies During the Exam
Immediately inform the proctor if an emergency, such as severe illness, occurs during an exam. The proctor will contact the appropriate Law School officials. Students who leave an exam without contacting the proper Law School officials will not be eligible to finish or otherwise retake the exam at a later time.
Equipment/Computer Emergencies During the Exam
The Law School is not responsible for any equipment failure during an exam, will not provide a back-up laptop, and will not allot extra time to enable students to address equipment failure. Students who experience equipment failure will simply continue by writing in exam booklets in the laptop room. The following tips may help to ensure a trouble-free experience:
- Security check failure: Run a practice exam every time you download a new version of Extegrity; all users should run the practice exam for at least five minutes.
- Mid-exam freeze: Shut down ALL pop-up programs, including instant messengers, security alerts from antivirus software, and language translators.
- Saving freeze: Discontinue use of the personal timer or time alerts, as they cause a freeze when in a menu optinon. Let the computer rest before submitting wirelessly. The program may take a minute to re-establish a network connection once the exam is closed.
Academic Integrity Matters (Note: integrity violations may result from non-compliance)
Anonymity
Students are prohibited from contacting their professors regarding personal exam issues/emergencies or providing professors with any information that would compromise anonymity. All issues, questions, or emergencies that arise regarding exams must be directed to the Dean of Students Office.
Breaks
If you need to leave the exam room, you may not take any materials with you and you may not bring any new materials back into the exam room. You may not confer with anyone about the exam or consult materials while you are outside the exam room.
Materials
Strictly adhere to the professor’s rules about notes, outlines, and other materials that are allowed in the exam. Laptop computers or any other electronic data storage devices are not allowed under any circumstances in an exam room for accessing notes or other information. Cell phones must be turned off and may not be used during an exam. Please sit every other seat in the exam room to the extent possible.
Questions
Proctors will contact the professor, via the Records Office, to ask any questions about the content of an exam question. Under no circumstances should you ask for assistance from another student taking the exam or other officials.
Controlled Exams
"Controlled" exams must be returned to the proctor at the end of the exam. Students who fail to return controlled exams risk receiving an F or No Credit.
End of Exam
Each student is responsible for monitoring the time during the exam. Proctors are not required to remind students of elapsed time. At the conclusion of the exam, as announced by the proctor, all writing must stop immediately. Students may not continue to write after time has been called except to exit the Extegrity program. Specifically, do not finish a sentence.
Numbering books or adding your student number can be done only in the presence of the proctor. In addition, students are responsible for ensuring that all flash drives, blue books, scantron sheets, and/or other exam responses are turned in to the proctor.
Identifying Exams
Do not write your name anywhere on flash drives, blue books, scantron sheets, or via laptop. Only use your GWID number to identify yourself.
Take-home Exams. Adhere to take-home exam instructions and return the exams in a timely manner. The Records Office and Law School officials are not responsible for submitting a student’s take-home exam to a professor if the exam instructions are not followed. Please note that the Records Office closes on Friday evenings at 5pm.; therefore, a 24 hour take-home exam must be picked up no later than 5pm on Thursday evening.
Use of Laptop Computers for Final Exams
To use the exam software for your Fall 2010 final exams, download Exam4 from www.extegrity.com. The software will be available beginning Monday, November 29. Please complete a practice exam to be sure that your computer passes the security check and can properly connect to the exam server to submit exams wirelessly. There is no "practice exam question", just a blank page where you type your exam answer which will be encrypted. Run the practice exam for at least five minutes.
Exam4 software is available for Windows XP, Windows VISTA, Windows 7, or Apple Macintosh.
Exam ID - Use your GWID (e.g. G12345678). You can find your number on the GW Law Portal.
Exam Mode - While practicing or during an exam, type CLOSED at the prompt.
At the completion of your exam, you will be asked to submit your answers through the law school wireless network. The auto save on Exam4 saves your exam every 10 seconds, with an additional five minutes of backup so there is no risk of losing your work. Make sure you computer is connected to the wireless network (gwlaw_peap) before launching Exam 4. If you do not have wireless access, you may save your exam on a USB drive provided by the proctor.
Laptop exams are the default. If you wish to write your exam in provided booklets, please request this via e-mail to rec@law.gwu.edu. Students writing their exams in bluebooks will be in the same exam room as laptop users. Please e-mail the Records Office at rec@law.gwu.edu if you have any questions about Exam4. For technical troubleshooting issues related to the software itself, contact Extegrity directly through their website at www.extegrity.com, and clicking on "User/Tech Support" under the "for Law School" menu on the top, left hand side of the homepage.
The Law School is not responsible for any equipment failure during an exam, will not provide a back-up laptop, and will not allot extra time to enable students to address equipment failure. Students who experience equipment failure will simply continue by writing in exam booklets in the laptop room. All other exam rules above pertain to laptop users.