Repository: UIHistories Project: Student Regulations - Undergraduates - 1948 [PAGE 11]

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reference, reserve, and pqr'mtVu-a\ shelves, as well as some special collections, are subject to a fine of twenty-five cents for the first hour and fire cents for aeh additional hour if leapt overtime Hooks recalled for Univeraity work must be returned at once upon receipt of notice. If they arc not returned within two days after notice ia mailed, a fine of twenty-five cents a day is charged. All hooka lost or damaged must be replaced or paid for. EXAMINATIONS 30. Proficiency Examinations Proficiency examinationa for advanced standing are offered in all courses normally open to freshmen and sophomores. Except in Rhetoric 101 and 102 and Hygiene 10J and 10.-), the student must secure the consent of the Head of the Department concerned. A student may obtain the privilege of taking proficiency examinations in more advanced undergraduate courses on recommendation of the Head of the Department, and approval of the Dean of the College. A student who passes a proficiency examination is given credit toward graduation for the amount regularly allowed in the course, provided such credit does not duplicate credit counted for admission to the University. An examination for credit in a college subject of elementary character will not be granted to a student who has received credit for more than one semester-course in the subject in advance of the course in which the examination is requested. The grade in proficiency examinations is "pass" or "not pass," but no student is given a grade of "pass" unless he has made at least " C " in the examination. No official record is made of failures in these examinations. Proficiency examinations are provided without fee. The examinations in rhetoric and hygiene ordinarily are given each semester in the week preceding the registration of upperclassmen. Examinations in other subjects ordinarily are given early in each semester. Information concerning these examinations may be obtained from the Director of Admissions and Records or from the department concerned. Proficiency examinations may be taken only by persons who are in residence; except that they may be taken by persons who are not registered in the University at the time but who are candidates for degrees at the close of the college year in which the examination is to be given and who need no more than ten srtnester hours to complete the requirements for their

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A profieiency examination may not he taken to raise | a grade oi to r< move a failure in a course. 31. Entrance Examinations Closed to Upperclassmen ' No matrictilat I Student may take entrance examinations after beginning his second year in the University.

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