EXAMINATION INSTRUCTIONS
A.
NO STUDENT WILL BE ALLOWED TO ENTER AN EXAMINATION ROOM WITHOUT THE FOLLOWING DOCUMENTATION:
1)
Official personal examination timetable
2)
Student card/temporary student card and identity document
PLEASE NOTE:
1)
You shall, in all cases, be seated in the examination venue at least fifteen (15) minutes before the examination session commence. You shall be permitted to enter
the examination venue after the commencement of an examination session, in exceptional circumstances only, but in no circumstances after the examination has
already been in progress for thirty (30) minutes or longer. No candidate may leave an examination venue before at least thirty (30) minutes have expired after the
commencement of the examination.
2)
Examination sessions will start at 08:45 (morning session) and 13:45 (afternoon session), respectively. Please arrive on the correct date and time as indicated on
your examination timetable.
B.
EXAMINATION TIMETABLE
1)
The final examination timetable is available on the TUT website and personal examination timetables will be obtainable from Student Services, by request.
2)
Only registered theoretical subjects with examination admission are listed on your personal examination timetable. A minimum predicate mark of 40% per subject is
needed to be able to write examination in a particular subject.
3)
If examination dates coincide, you must report it three (3) working days prior to the examination date concerned at Student Services. Special arrangements will be
made, subject to the provisions or Regulation 4.2.17.3 (Distance Education students should report the matter to the Distance Education Assessment Department)
C.
SPECIAL EXAMINATIONS
A special examination may be granted, with the permission of the Registrar, to a student who was prevented from preparing for an examination as a result of
circumstances beyond his or her control, or as a result of illness before the commencement of the examination, or who was prevented from writing an examination
during the main or the supplementary examination period. A student shall submit a written appeal within five (5) days after the date or the specific examination session,
at Student Services. Please refer to the TUT Prospectus, Part 1, Students’ Rules and Regulations, Chapter 4, regulation 4.4.4. (Distance Education students should
report the matter to the Distance Education Assessment Department).
D.
EXAMINATION VENUES
Particulars of examination venues will appear on personal timetables.
E.
EXAMINATION ROOM REGULATIONS
1)
Please read and follow the instructions on the cover page of the examination script, as well as those on the question paper, carefully and ensure that you comply
with those instructions.
2)
While an examination is in progress, you may not help or try to help another student, obtain assistance or try to obtain assistance, or communicate or try to
communicate with any person.
3)
You may not disregard the instructions of the invigilator.
4)
Unless stipulated otherwise for an examination, you are not allowed to have in your possession, while you are in the examination room, a book, memorandum,
notes, sketch, a map, film or any other document or paper (including blank paper) or any other aid bearing on the examination subject, with the exception of your
personal examination timetable and whatever is handed out to you in the examination venue.
5)
Ensure that no notes appear on any of your stationery, timetable, pocket calculator, etc.
6)
You may not use a pocket calculator in an examination unless expressly authorized to do so in the instruction appearing on the question paper concerned - and
then only the pocket calculators that are specifically permitted.
7)
You are not permitted to make notes or to do calculations on your question paper or personal timetable.
8)
No explanation or examination questions may be requested or provided.
9)
As soon as you have handed in your work, you may leave the examination venue, but you will not be allowed to leave the examination venue before at least thirty
(30) minutes of the examination time has expired.
10)
All examination scripts and aids handed out to you must be handed in again before you leave the examination venue. Unless otherwise stipulated, you may take
your question paper with you when you leave.
11)
Please complete the cover of your examination script, as well as the attendance slip that appears on the back page of the examination answer script, in full and
correctly.
12)
Cellular phones/smart watches are under no circumstances allowed in the examination rooms, not even if switched off. Being in possession of a cellular phone/
Smart watches can lead to disciplinary action against you. Firearms are prohibited.
13)
Students should bring their own calculators or scientific calculators, if such calculators are permitted, and their own stationery.
14)
No pencil bags, pencil cases, or any other bags or containers will be allowed in the examination room.
15)
Candidates must bring their own watches (smart watches excluded) to the examination room. All alarm clocks must be switched off.
16)
You are not allowed to make any notes before or during an examination on any body part (e.g. hands} or on any piece of clothing, stationary or equipment.
PLEASE NOTE:
Should you not comply with these instructions, you will be liable to disciplinary measures in terms or the Examination Rules of TUT.
TUT shall NOT accept responsibility for incorrect information regarding examination arrangements supplied by unauthorised persons. All enquiries must be made to
Student Services. Distance education students to refer all examination and result enquiries to the Distance Education Assessment Department. Although TUT, at all
times, deals with care and responsibility with the receipt, distribution and safekeeping or examination scripts, documents or objects for practical examinations, disk
and micro disks that bear relation to an examination, as well as portfolios, reports, scripts, dissertations and theses. TUT does not accept any liability in the case or
such examination scripts, documents or objects for practical examinations, disks or micro disks that bear relation to the examination, or portfolios, reports, scripts,
dissertations or theses, being lost or destroyed. If the loss of the said examination material should prevent the evaluation of your examination performance, TUT
reserves the right to request you to undergo a re-evaluation.
F.
RESULTS
1)
Examination results are available on the TUT website: www.tut.ac.za according to the daily publication schedule.
2)
Examination results may not be provided telephonically to students by staff members. In cases or uncertainties, please consult with Student Services.
3)
Supplementary examination dates are also included on the publication schedule on the TUT website: www.tut.ac.za. All supplementary examinations will be
written on the campus where a student is registered. No alternative arrangements will be made.
REGISTRAR
