Repository: UIHistories Project: Student Regulations - Undergraduates - 1944 [PAGE 13]

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tion is to be given and who need no more than ten semester hours to complete the requirements for their degrees. A proficiency examination may not be taken to raise a grade or to remove a failure in a course. 31. Entrance Examinations Closed to Upperclassmen No matriculated student may take entrance examinations after beginning his second year in the University. 32. Semester Examinations Examinations must be taken at the close of each semester on the work of the semester in all subjects except those, the character of which renders it unnecessary or impracticable. A student who has pursued a study with a class in the University and has been absent from the regular examination for satisfactory reasons may be excused by the dean of the college and examined by the instructor at his convenience. Absence from such an examination for any other cause counts as a failure. "A grade of 'excused' which is not removed during the first semester that a student is registered following the givingf of such a grade automatically becomes a grade of E / 33. Special Examinations Special examinations may be had only upon the recommendation of the head or chairman of the department concerned or or some person duly authorized by him, and with the approval of the dean of the college in which the student is enrolled. Special examinations are reported as "passed," or "not passed," but no student is given a grade of "pass" unless he has made at least "C" in the examination. Grades earned in special examinations do not enter into any computation of averages. These examinations may be taken only for the removal of failures in courses taken at the University of Illinois. A special examination to remove a failure in a course should be taken before the end of the next semester in which the student is registered following such failure. For each special examination a fee of five dollars must be paid in advance. Additional provisions with reference to special examinations are as follows: (1) No special examination! may be given during the period beginning ten days before and continuing for ten days after each final lamination period. except that special examinations may be given on and after the first Friday of the second semester. (The pro/i ions of this paragraph do not apply in the

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