Conduct During Exams
1. All personal property including PDA’s and palm pilots must be placed at the front of the room, except:
- writing instruments
- such materials as the professor's instructions allow
(if calculators are permitted, students may only use generic/basic accountin calculators (ones that only do
division, subtraction and multiplication). Strictly prohibited are calculators that can be used on cell phones, PDA's, graphing/engineering calculators, and any other potentially internet enabled or memory storing devices). - personal computers with Securexam software
(a laptop IS NOT considered an open book material. The only function the laptop has in an exam room is for typing an exam using the Securexam software. Any and all other uses for a laptop are strictly prohibited).
2. Cell phones must be turned off - they may not be on vibrate mode unless you have the Associate Dean's prior consent.
3. You may not wear headphones.
4. For those students handwriting their examination, please be sure to print your 5 digit exam number, course name, professor, and date on the cover of each bluebook, immediately upon receipt. For those students who are typing, only enter the professor’s last name in the header. Do not type “professor” before the name.
5. LLM and MSJ students must indicate “LLM” or “MSJ” after their exam number.
6. If a Scantron answer sheet is being used, be sure to write and darken in the ovals for your exam number using a number two pencil. No name or other personal identification may appear on your bluebooks, handwritten or typed answers, examination questions or any other answer sheet which has been provided.
7. If there are page limits for answering an exam question, unless the professor specifies otherwise, the pages are to be double spaced using Times New Roman font size 12 with 1 inch margins at top, bottom and sides.
8. Any conduct which will interfere with the administration of the examination is not allowed before, during or after the examination.
9. Inform the proctor(s) immediately of any complaints concerning procedures, materials distributed or cheating.
10. If a student experiences a laptop problem or malfunction prior to, during, or upon exiting an exam, he or she must immediately notify the proctor. The Law School will attempt to provide immediate technical support if the student alerts the proctor. If a student’s laptop fails during an examination, the student must continue answering the exam by hand-writing it. No additional time will be allowed for attempting to resolve computer problems during the exam.
After the exam has concluded, an attempt may also be made to retrieve exam answers from the student’s hard drive. The retrieved exam portion, together with the hand-written portion, will be submitted to the professor for grading.
Only if exam answers cannot be retrieved within 24 hours, may the Associate Dean, in consultation with the professor, determine any additional remedial options, if any. However, no relief will be given to a student who failed to alert the proctor at the time of the difficulty.
11. While the exam is in progress, no student shall leave an exam room without an escort.
12. No one shall be absent from the exam room for more than ten minutes unless there is a valid medical reason; only one person shall leave the room at a time.
13. You must surrender your questions to the proctor(s) if you wish to leave the room during the examination. All personal materials taken from the room during the examination are subject to search.
14. You may not speak, or, in any other way, communicate with one another, 1) during an examination, or 2) after an examination while in the examination room.
15. After the proctor(s) announce(s) that there are 5 minutes remaining, no one may leave the room for any reason until the examination is over.
16. Do not contact the professor in any way regarding the exam until the grades are posted.
17. Violation of any of these rules by students will result in sanctions up to and including dismissal from the school. Misconduct during examinations will be reported to the Associate Dean.
18. Any student who continues to type or write at the end of the exam once the announcement is made to “stop typing or writing” will be reported to the Associate Dean.
19. Upon completion of your examination and prior to leaving the examination room, you will be required to sign an honor code certification.