Postponing Exams
Do not contact your professor. While the natural reaction may be to contact the professor if you are unable to take an exam, it is not the proper procedure at the law school. Exams are graded anonymously, and in order to preserve anonymity, students should contact the Student Affairs Office with questions regarding exam postponement.
All students are expected to take exams as scheduled. We realize that sometimes it may be necessary to postpone an exam. We allow postponements for three reasons:
- illness documented with medical verification;
- family emergency, such as a death in the family, which may require verification; and
- once-in-a-lifetime special event for an immediate family member, such as a sibling graduation.
Attendance at a wedding, even if you are in the wedding party, is not a valid reason for a postponement. Work reasons are also not valid reasons for a postponement. If it is necessary for you to postpone an exam, you are to call the office of the Assistant Dean for Student Affairs at 232-1313. Please do not panic if you cannot immediately speak to the Assistant Dean. If you are sufficiently ill to need a postponement, it will be necessary to see a doctor immediately. Rest assured that with the medical verification, your exam will be postponed.
Postponed exams are administered only during the official postponement times listed on the exam schedule. If you have a valid reason to postpone an exam but decide to take the exam as scheduled, please be aware that the grade will count.
Law school policy prohibits the administration of an exam prior to the scheduled exam date.