Missed Mid-Term and Final Exam Procedure

All students of The G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education are expected to complete their assignments, tests, and exams within the time frames and by the dates indicated in your course outline. However, Toronto Metropolitan University policies allow a student who misses a mid-term or final exam for one of the following reasons only – religious observance, health reasons, or compassionate grounds (generally, normal employment commitments and vacations will not constitute grounds for academic consideration) – to request an alternate arrangement to write a makeup exam.

Submission of Documentation

Students are required to submit their requests for academic consideration through the online system. Students are also required to submit appropriate documentation (a completed Toronto Metropolitan Student Health Certificate or a letter from an appropriate-regulated health practitioner) through this system.

Students must submit the request within three working days of the missed test/exam.

When a student submits an academic consideration request through the online system, the instructor and Program Department will receive a notification through their Toronto Metropolitan e-mail. Once the Program Department has verified the student’s health documentation, the instructor will once again be notified of the verification.

Please note: Starting May 1, 2023, the university will no longer offer the use of a special COVID-19 category in the online Academic Consideration Request (ACR) system. 

The option to select COVID-19 will remain under “extenuating circumstances” in case of future need to track these requests. If a student submitting an ACR opts to use their “one-time-only” no documentation option for these requests, all future ACR requests in the same semester will fall under the parameters outlined in Policy 167, Procedures section 2.5.3.

Approval for a student to write a makeup exam (as opposed to re-weighting the marks) is at your discretion, providing your decision is in compliance with Toronto Metropolitan policy; that is: 

1. The student has submitted the request online and in a timely manner.
2. The student has submitted the required originally-signed documentation as per Senate Policy 167: Academic Consideration.
3. The makeup term test should be written before the final exam.
4. The makeup exam does not have to be in the same format as the original in-class exam.

All communications with the student must be via Toronto Metropolitan email.