Exams

• Exams take place in different rooms and at different times than regular class. Is is very important to double-check your exam schedule on HEC en ligne.
  
• To avoid confusion, you must go to the proper exam room. Use the Campus maps.
  

• You must present your student card in order to access exam rooms.
  
• No student arriving to an exam more than 45 minutes late will be admitted.
  
• Regardless of the reason presented, no student may leave the exam room within the first 45 minutes of the exam.
  

• Portable computers: Unless explicit authorization is provided on the exam booklet, the use of a portable computer is strictly forbidden. If you do use a computer, make sure that you have with you all necessary components (battery, network cable, USB key, etc.). If you forget any of them, you will still be required to sit the exam. Students are encouraged to keep a network cable on them at all times in order to use the school’s wired network, which is always faster than the wireless network.
  
  
• Electronic devices: Students are also forbidden to use any electronic or communications device of any nature, such as a mobile phone, pager, pocket computer, watch with data entry capability, agenda, electronic dictionary, portable CD player, etc.
  
  
• Translation dictionary - paper format only (and not a dictionary of definitions):
  

  MBA

•  at all times
  

  Others programs (excluding language courses)

  if the language of instruction is

• English or Spanish	at all times
  French	with autorisation Only students whose mother tongue is not French may obtain a sticker at the information counter at the Registrar's office (student card required)

• Documentation: During an exam, students may not exchange or share a calculator, portable computer or any other device or documentation. If you are authorized to bring documentation (electronic or otherwise) to the exam, make sure to bring only the authorized material with you.  Failing or forgetting to bring it, you will still be required to take the exam.
  
  
• Scrap paper: Students are not permitted to bring scrap paper into the exam room (except when it is allowed), but rather, must use the specially designated ‘rough draft’ pages in the exam booklets. Students may not un-staple the exam question booklets.
  
  
• Baseball caps: If you are wearing a baseball-style cap, you will be asked to remove it or to turn it so that the visor points backward.
  
  
• Beverages: For very practical reasons, water is the only beverage permitted in the exam room: other drinks can damage or otherwise degrade an exam paper. Moreover, other drinks are often sticky or may stain paper, whereas spilled water is less harmful.
  
  

Infractions relating to documentation and materials allowed during exams fall under Article 12 – Plagiarism and Fraud of the Rules and Regulations (document available in French only for all program except MBA).

• No student may leave the exam room while an exam is in progress except in case of emergency, when the student will be accompanied by an invigilator.

• I feel sick. What should I do?
  If you do not feel well, it is better not to attend the exam because once you enter the exam room, you will not be allowed to leave.
  However, should you take ill during an exam, we could give you some time to rest and offer you an equivalent time to complete your exam. Because your exam cannot be voided, it is important nonetheless to attempt to answer as many questions as possible.
  
  
• Missing an exam:
  Missing an exam for any serious reason must be justified in writing (along with supporting documents) within five (5) business days of the exam date. A student who misses an exam must complete the form entitled Notice of absence from an examination. 
  

  Note that a doctor’s note must specify that the student in question was physically unable to write an exam on THE DATE OF THE EXAM. A doctor's note indicating only that you were seen by a doctor on a given date is not valid.

  The Office of the Registrar reserves the right to accept or reject the reason given. Reasons such as travel, part-time work, car breakdowns or claims of illness lacking the requisite medical evidence are not acceptable.