OFF-CAMPUS EXAMS

If you are living far from the MSU campus at the time of the exam, beyond a reasonable commuting distance, or if you are traveling with an MSU-sponsored program, you may be able to arrange a proctored off-campus exam. Arrangements must be made well in advance of the exam -- last minute requests will not be accommodated. You must arrange for a proctor to administer the exam.Acceptable proctors include college professors, the supervisors of MSU-sponsored program, testing centers at community colleges and universities; and librarians at your local Public Library may be used to proctor exams. Students traveling abroad will need to find a college/universty faclty member to proctor their exams.

There is a consortium of testing centers in the United States and Canada. Any participating center may be used as a proctor. Here is a link to its homepage: http://www.ncta-testing.org/cctc/find.php Regardless of who proctors your exam, arrangements must be made prior to the deadline below or you will have to take the exam at MSU.

K-12 school teachers and tutoring service centers cannot be used to proctor exams.

In a proctored exam, I will send the exam to the proctor via email or FAX. The proctor will give you the exam on the scheduled date of the exam and stay with you for two hours while you do the exam. Then the proctor will send your exam answers back to me by FAX or email attachment. Both you and the proctor must sign a form stating that the exam was taken without help.

To schedule a proctored exam, you must send me the name of the proctor, the proctor's job title, place of employment, telephone number at work (no home or cell phones), the proctor's email address and the proctor's FAX number.

Arranging an off-campus exam can, in some instances take a significant amount of time, therefore they must be made well in advance.

The deadline to arrange an off-campus exams is:

If I have not received ALL of your proctor's contact information by the deadline, you must take the exam at MSU. Also, if you are taking a regular, non-online class meeting at MSU during the session (i.e. PHY 252), you must take your exams here at MSU. Missing an exam due to not finding and arranging for an appropriate proctor to administer the exam on its scheduled date will result in a score of 0 for the exam.

Previous page

Last updated: May 6, 2015