5.4.11 Time Limits for Retaking the Qualifying Examination

(Approved May 5, 1995)

If a student, on first attempt, fails the qualifying examination, he or she may be re-examined only once, and only if the departmental Ph.D. committee, or those acting in its behalf, so recommend.

No student may take the oral qualifying examination more than twice.

The departmental Ph.D. committee, or those acting on its behalf, may recommend that only prescribed parts of the examination be repeated. If the privilege of re-examination is granted, the time period within which it must be accomplished is specified by the departmental Ph.D. committee, but it shall not exceed 12 months.