Graduate students should refer to the heading `Special (deferred) examinations'
in the chapter called `The graduate program'.
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Special examinations are only allowed in the circumstances set out in Regulation 4.5 of the Examination regulations.
4.5 The faculty board of enrolment or the appropriate board of examiners may allow a candidate to sit for a special examination where:
4.5.1 a candidate has been prevented by illness or other serious cause from presenting for all or part of a terminal examination; or
4.5.2 the candidate's work during the academic year or performance in an examination or other assessment has been gravely affected by illness or other serious cause.
The Rules made by the faculty board in pursuance of Regulation 4.1 of the Examinations regulations set out the circumstances in which a student may be allowed a supplementary examination. Rules 9 and 10 provide for the award of supplementary examinations as follows:
9 Supplementary examinations Subject to Rule 10, where a student has failed to pass a subject, an academic progress committee shall allow the student to sit for a supplementary examination in that subject provided:
(a) the subject is a compulsory or a quasi-compulsory year-long subject for the degree of Bachelor of Laws or, in the case of a student enrolled as a candidate for the degree of Bachelor of Jurisprudence, is a first-year non-law subject;
(b) the student obtained a final mark of not less than 40 per centum in the subject;
(c) (i) where the subject failed is a first-year non-law subject, the student has not previously sat for a supplementary examination in a first-year non-law subject; (ii) where the subject failed is a law subject, the student has not previously sat for a supplementary examination in a law subject.
10 A student enrolled as a candidate for the degree of Bachelor of Laws who
(a) needs to pass only one more law subject in order to qualify for that degree;
(b) has failed to pass that subject but has obtained a final mark of not less than 40 per centum in that subject; and
(c) has not, since the end of the preceding semester, been granted a supplementary examination under this rule or rule 9;
shall upon application to the dean within fourteen days of the publication of the results in that subject be allowed to sit for a supplementary examination in that subject.
Copies of a booklet detailing eligibility for supplementary and special examinations are available from the general office and from the student administration general office. In exceptional cases, applications may be made in writing to the university examinations manager for permission to sit examinations outside the appointed venue.
Students who want to see their examination scripts after the results have been published should consult the lecturer in the first instance. The lecturer will normally allow the student to read the examination script and discuss it with them. If the student wishes to obtain a copy of the examination script it can be arranged by application through the general office within forty-eight hours of lodging the application form with the general office. A fee of $5.00 for each examination script is charged.
Examination regulations prohibit students from communicating with examiners about their marks prior to results being published. Once published, marks will be final; the only circumstance in which a mark will be changed is where it is established that an error has occurred in the arithmetic (eg omission of a class test result). Students are not entitled to negotiate a higher mark for a passed paper or to request a re-assessment either from the same examiner or from another person.
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