Do large numbers of students have three or more final exams per day?
On the four-exam-per-day schedule, less than 3% of students had three exams scheduled in one day in fall 2010, and only a very small handful of students had four exams scheduled in one day. This is less than half of what we might expect from a random distribution, suggesting that, for the most part, students are able to optimize their exam schedules successfully. An effort is made to distribute exam groups across the week to minimize these percentages, particularly for students taking large, lower division courses in which written final examinations are common. Instructors can help maintain these low percentages by not requesting a change in final exam times except under exceptional circumstances; if such circumstances do apply, instructors should request such a change at least two weeks before the first day of instruction for that semester (see Final Exam Time Change FAQ below).
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