Teaching this fall? You should know . . .

. . . the Faculty regulates examinations and assignments for all subjects.

View the complete regulations at web.mit.edu/faculty/teaching/termregs.html. Select requirements are provided below for reference. Contact Faculty Chair Krishna Rajagopal at exam-termregs@mit.edu with questions or requests for exceptions.

No required classes, examinations, oral presentations, exercises, or assignments of any kind may be scheduled after the last regularly scheduled class in a subject, except for final examinations scheduled through the Schedules Office. The last class day for all subjects is Wednesday, December 14, 2016.

Undergraduate Subjects

By the end of the first week of classes, faculty must provide:

• a clear and complete description of the required work, including the number and kinds of  assignments
• the approximate schedule of tests and due dates for major projects
• an indication of whether or not there will be a final examination, and
• the grading criteria and procedures to be used

By the end of the third week, faculty must provide a precise schedule of tests and major assignments.

Regularly scheduled academic activity between 7 and 10pm always takes precedence over evening review sessions or exams/quizzes. Hence:

• Evening review sessions should be optional, and should be described as such. It is good practice to announce them explicitly as being for those students who do not have classes on the evening in question; some instructors schedule two review sessions to provide alternate times.
• In the case of an evening exam/quiz, you must make available an alternate time for any students with such a conflict. (Note: Evening exams/quizzes may be scheduled only on a Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday)

When held outside scheduled class times, tests must:

• not exceed two hours in length
• begin no earlier than 7:30 p.m. when held in the evening, and
• be scheduled through the Schedules Office

In all undergraduate subjects, there shall be no tests after Friday, December 9, 2016. Unit tests may be scheduled during the final examination period. For each undergraduate subject with a final examination, no other test may be given and no assignment may fall due after Friday, December 9, 2016. For each subject without a final examination, at most one assignment may fall due between December 9 and the end of the last regularly scheduled class in the subject.

Graduate Subjects

By the end of the third week, faculty must provide:

• a clear and complete description of the required work, including the number and kinds of  assignments
• the schedule of tests and due dates for major projects
• an indication of whether or not there will be a final examination, and
• the grading criteria and procedures to be used

For each graduate subject with a final examination, no other test may be given and no assignment may fall due after Friday, December 9, 2016. For each subject without a final examination, at most, either one in-class test may be given, or one assignment, term paper, or oral presentation may fall due between December 9 and the end of the last regularly scheduled class in the subject.

Student Holidays

There is a student holiday on Friday, September 23, coinciding with the Fall Career Fair. Monday, October 10 (Columbus Day) and Tuesday, October 11 are also student holidays.

Collaboration Policy and Expectations for Academic Conduct

Due to varying faculty attitudes towards collaboration and diverse cultural values and priorities regarding academic honesty, students are often confused about expectations regarding permissible academic conduct. It is important to clarify, in writing, expectations regarding collaboration and academic conduct at the beginning of each semester. This could include a reference to the MIT Academic Integrity Handbook.

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