Graduate Program
Cumulative Exams
2007 - 2008 Exam Schedule |
Proctor |
| 8 September 2007 | Tucker |
| 6 October 2007 | Lever |
| 3 November 2007 | Tanner |
| 8 December 2007 | Atwood |
| 2 February 2008 | Cooley |
| 1 March 2008 | Keller |
| 12 April 2008 | Thompson |
| 10 May 2008 | JiJi |
| 7 June 2008 | Jurisson |
ALL EXAMINATIONS ARE GIVEN FROM 9:00 - 11:00 A.M. IN 201 SCHLUNDT
Failure to show up for an exam will result in a failed attempt.
Additional time will not be given for tardiness.
Policies
- The purpose of the cumulative exams is to test the graduate students’ ability to apply advanced methods in their field of interest to relevant problems in modern chemistry, and the capacity for independent study.
Students may start taking cumes after they have selected an advisor, and research advisors are not officially declared before the end of the first semester. Therefore, the earliest a student can start taking the cumes is the first cume given in their second semester. Cumes are administered once a month during the academic year. Students must pass 5 cumes prior to the end of their fourth regular semester (four semester rule) in the graduate program. (This does not include summer.) The four semester rule holds from the time of entry into the graduate program, NOT the time of qualification. - Administration of exams will occur collectively on Saturday mornings at 9:00 am, preceded by at least two weeks with an announcement of the exams that will be offered.
- The faculty of each Division maintains responsibility for formulating their exam and grading the exams taken within that Division. The pass or fail decision remains within the Division.
Cumes are given in the following areas of Chemistry
- Analytical Division
- Organic Division
- Biological Division
- Physical Division
- Inorganic Division
- Radiochemistry Division