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ACADEMIC POLICIES AND REGULATIONS
The Registrar’s office forwards applications to the appropriate
School for evaluation of each student’s request. This evaluation
determines if credit for the course may be obtained in this
manner. If an appropriate examination format is approved for the
applicant by the School, the School then notifies the Registrar’s
office of the nature, format and schedule for the exam. This
information is then communicated to the student by the Registrar
in writing with any further related instructions from the School.
If the student wishes to proceed with the challenge exam as
prescribed, he/she will be required to confirm his/her agreement
in writing and to pay a non-refundable tuition fee equivalent
in amount to the fee for one course credit for the semester in
question.
7.2 Challenge Examinations Regulations
Receipt of payment of the applicant’s required tuition fee by the
Cashier, following written confirmation of the Challenge Exam
availability from the Registrar, shall constitute an official request
for a Challenge Examination. The applicant is then entitled to
challenge the course in question for credit through the agreed
upon examination.
• Challenge for Credit is available only to students formally
admitted to, and registered in, a program leading to a
Certificate or Diploma.
• A maximum of five (5) credits towards a Marine Institute
Diploma may be acquired by challenge exam at the Marine
Institute or elsewhere. A maximum of two (2) credits may be
obtained towards a Marine Institute Certificate.
• A challenge credit may not be used as a substitute for grade
raising or to replace a failed course.
• The Challenge Examination shall be worth 100%.
• A student may not challenge a course (or its equivalent) in
which he/she has been previously registered or which he/she
has already challenged.
• The passing grade for a challenge will appear on the transcript
as CH. Challenge grades are not, therefore, computed in
averages and are not used in evaluating scholarship standing,
but are counted as course attempts. Failures (FA) will be noted
on the transcript.
• A student may not withdraw the challenge once he/she has
officially requested a Challenge Examination. Failure to
complete the exam as approved will constitute failure of the
exam in question.
• Applications to write challenge examinations are to be filed
in accordance with deadlines for Supplementary Exams. The
Registrar shall notify the student of the status of the Challenge
examination result by way of a Challenge Exam Report and
the final result will be included as part of he student’s end of
semester grade report.
8. PROGRAM/COURSE REGISTRATION
The registration schedule for each semester or technical session,
for each program, is set by the Registrar. For the Fall Semester,
the registration period commences late July or early August. For
the Winter Semester, registration commences in December. For
Technical Session, the registration period is normally the two
weeks immediately preceding the first day of Technical Session.
The dates for registration for each semester and start of classes
are published each year in the Marine Institute Academic Diary.
The specific registration schedule for each program is published
prior to the start of each semester or session and is posted or
distributed to students.
Students are required to register before the published registration
deadline. Students who do not register before the deadline may
be denied permission to register. If in such cases, a student is
permitted to register late, the student must pay a late registration
fee. No student may register following the last date to officially
add courses. Specific deadlines are listed separately under the
regulations for course changes.
9. COURSE CHANGES
A student who wishes to officially drop or add a course prior
to the official add or drop date can do so online through the
student self service website at https://www5.mun.ca/admit/
twbkwbis.P_WWWLogin. A student who wishes to drop or
add a course after the official add or drop date must obtain and
complete an official Course Change Form from the Office of
the Registrar or the Institute’s Information Centre, complete the
form, have each course change approved by his/her Program
Chair, and return the Course Change Form to the Office of the
Registrar for final approval. Any course changes outside the
official dates of drop and add will be reviewed on a case by case
basis and only approved in exceptional circumstances.
9.1 Term or Semester
The official date for adding courses is TWO WEEKS from the first
day of classes in a semester.
The official deadline for dropping courses is SIX WEEKS from
the first day of classes in a semester. For students in Primary
Technology in the Fall Semester, in their first semester at the
Marine Institute, the deadline for dropping courses is EIGHT
WEEKS from the first day of classes.
9.2 Technical Session
In a Technical Session, the official deadline to add courses is
the end of the FIRST DAY of classes. Courses may be added
beyond this deadline only with the written permission of the
School Head and the Registrar.
In a Technical Session, the official deadline for dropping courses
is the end of the TENTH DAY of classes for courses which are of
21 days duration or longer. For Technical Session courses which
are less than 21 days in duration, the following table applies:
Length of Course:
up to Five days
Six to Ten days
Eleven to Fifteen days
Sixteen to Twenty days
Deadline for Dropping Courses
End of Second day of Classes
End of Fourth day of Classes
End of Sixth day of Classes
End of Eighth day of Classes
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