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Deferred Exams

Policy for Deferred Final Examinations (effective March 2012)

Effective immediately, the economics department will be using a new procedure for deferred final examinations. Please read this message carefully.

 

You are very strongly encouraged to write your final examinations at the scheduled time and place. If you have compelling evidence that you are unable to write a final examination at the scheduled time then follow this procedure. Note that a legitimate but crowded final examination schedule is NOT a reason to defer a final examination.

 

1. Print and complete the Deferred Final Examination request form on the economics department's web site dated March 2012 (http://economics.uwaterloo.ca/documents/DeferredExamForm-13mar12.pdf).

 

2. Submit the completed form and all necessary documentation to the economics department Undergraduate Program Assistant in HH-214 within three (3) business days of the scheduled examination you missed; electronic submissions will not be accepted. And, do NOT submit your request to your instructor. As a courtesy to your instructor you may email her/him to tell her/him that you are submitting a request for a deferred final examination.

 

3. If you miss more than one final examination in your economics courses, repeat this procedure for each economics final examination you did not write.

 

4. Read the Registrar's policy on accommodation due to illness at:

 

http://www.registrar.uwaterloo.ca/students/accom_illness.html

 

Note that this policy refers to a different form and gives you only 48 hours (not 3 business days) to submit your request. For an economics course use the Deferred Final Examination request form on the economics department's web site.

 

5. If your request is successful you will be informed at your UW email address of the day/time/place of the deferred final examination.  If your request is unsuccessful you will be informed at your UW email address of the reason the request was rejected. Note that writing a deferred final examination is a privilege not a right.

 

6. The economics department will assume that you have received the message in item 5. If you have not received an answer to your request by the end of the first day of the next term, email econdefexam@uwaterloo.ca immediately. If you are given the opportunity to write a deferred final examination, you alone are responsible for writing this examination on the scheduled day and at the scheduled time and place.