Dead week for Bison allows for only one exam or quiz to be given, per course, during the last two weeks of the semester (prorated accordingly for variable length courses), which includes finals week. Exceptions include summer classes, self-paced/correspondence courses, make-up exams, courses in which a laboratory is incorporated with a lecture, one-credit courses, block-taught courses, approval of students enrolled in a course, and quizzes that account for less than 5% of the students’ overall grade. If a professor gives an exam during the last week of classes, he/she is expected to make some instructional use of the final examination time. 

No student shall be obligated to take more than three (3) final examinations on the same calendar day. In the event that a student has four (4) or more final examinations on the same calendar day, the student shall notify the instructor(s) from the highest numbered course(s) no later than two weeks before the last day of class to schedule a make-up examination to be administered at a mutually acceptable time.