Self-Scheduled Exams

Once a student decides to attend Agnes Scott, she agrees to uphold and live by our Honor Code.

“The Honor Code is founded on the support, the mature judgment and the personal integrity of each student. By entering Agnes Scott, a student voluntarily pledges her support to the regulation and spirit of the community. The Honor Code is an expression of trust in students and in their willingness to uphold the ideals of the community. Under the Honor System, regulations—both social and academic—are based upon their value to the community and to the individual student.”

When upholding the Honor Code, students pledge to not steal, lie, cheat or plagiarize writings. Students also commit not to engage in illegal activities, discrimination, or violent behavior. Because the Honor Code is integral to our way of life at Agnes Scott, our professors trust that we will not cheat or plagiarize our academic work. As part of the honor code, we have self-scheduled, un-proctored final exams. After the last day of classes, we have two reading days were students are allowed to write, study and review for upcoming exams. Following the reading days, there is a one week period in which students are allowed to take exams. The students gets to decide what day to take the exam and at what time. The exams are offered at 9 AM and 2 PM on most of the testing days, and there is also an additional 6 PM testing period that is offered on one testing day. A student has plenty of options for exam taking. We receive our tests from a central testing location, and then we take the exam in any classroom in Buttrick hall, the main academic building. If we want to take our math exam first to be done with it we can or we can allow ourselves extra days to study by taking the exam at a later day and time during the exam period. There are no professors or faculty present in the classrooms while we take our exam because they trust that students will uphold the Honor Code. While a classroom could be filled with students taking final exams for the most part each is taking an exam of her choosing. It is wonderful to live in environment where everyone trusts the academic integrity of others. It is also nice to be able to take the time that we need to study and write our final papers. Since we get to pace ourselves and we are not under a time constraint, we do not feel as much pressure and stress during finals time.