Taking Final Exams
Students in online courses are required (when a take-home or a paper is not assigned) to take the same final exam as students in a corresponding traditional course, and they will be graded along the same grading curve as all other students in the course (including, where applicable, J.D., full- and part-time Graduate Tax students, and students in other LL.M. specialties). When an online course is administered independently of a traditional course, the Professor will make the determination about the content of the final exam, but all students are treated equally and grading is performed by the Professor without knowledge of the identity of any student.
Final exams are scheduled and administered by the Office of Academic Services, and students will be required by that office to use ExamSoft software for in-class exams and THES software for take-home exams. Students in the E-LLM who are located too far from the Greenwich Village campus of NYU to take the exam in the assigned room(s) will work with the Office of Academic Affairs to locate an appropriate site in which to take their final exam.
Where an examination in absentia is necessary, the student will be responsible for his or her share of the associated expenses such as the hourly wages of the proctor, the additional cost of printing an exam on security paper, and mailing the exam to and from the exam site. These costs should be relatively modest, less than $50 per exam. If the student is from the same geographic area as other students in the E-LLM, the Office of Academic Affairs will work with the students to consolidate the costs.
For additional exam information and scheduling details, click here.