Exam information for students – Fall semester 2024

Exam information for students – Fall semester 2024

Exams at Bar-Ilan are held either on campus in person or remotely online, in the format determined for the particular course by the instructor or department.

Exam time

Exam scheduling and format for your registered courses can be seen on the In-Bar portal (Exams and grades menu). 

Exam entry permit

         
You must bring a photo ID with you to your exam.

Students with tuition debts will not be permitted to take their exams. You may verify your payment status on the In-Bar portal (menu: Authorizations -> Documents >  אישור כניסה לבחינה).

Schedule       

You may enter the exam until half an hour after the exam begins.  

For online (Tomax-based) exams: Students must log in to the Tomax system 45 minutes before the exam start time and make sure that their video and audio devices are operating properly. Latecomers will not be granted extra time.

Students eligible for extra time accommodations must verify that the accommodation is updated in the In-Bar system.

Exam conduct

Bringing cellphones, electronic earphones and smart watches into the exam room – is prohibited, and may result in appearance before the Disciplinary Committee. For those wishing to use earplugs, they must be presented to the proctor before the beginning of the exam.

Restroom breaks are permitted accompanied by a proctor, beginning 45 minutes after the start of the exam, until 30 minutes before the end time. Only one restroom break will be permitted in the course of the exam.

In the last half hour of the exam, no restroom break will be permitted for any student, even those eligible for additional time.

Pregnant women who have submitted a medical note to the Office of Student Support and Accessibility are eligible for restroom breaks at any time, and additional time of 25% for each hour of the exam. This addition will not be granted to women who have additional time accommodations for other reasons (learning disabilities, etc.).

Restroom breaks during online exams – students taking their exams at home may not take restroom breaks for exams that are up to two hours long. Pregnant students and students with specific medical problems who cannot meet this requirement, and students eligible for a time extension for exams that exceed two hours and wish to take advantage of that eligibility and also to leave to the restroom during the exam, must take their exams on the Tomax platform on campus-based Bar-Ilan computers. They will then be able to leave to the restrooms during the exam.

Overlapping exams

Students with two classroom-based exams (that is, that are not conducted online) on the same date and at the same time who would like to take both exams, must register via the In-Bar portal beginning 17 days before the exam date until 7 days before the exam, not including the exam date. After registration, it is recommended that you update your instructor by sending a message via email.

Overlapping exams are held in Building 605 – Classroom 61. Exams scheduled for the third and fourth exam time block, will be moved back by two hours.

Exams scheduled for 4 PM, will begin at 2 PM in the overlapping exam classroom.

Exams scheduled for 6 PM, will begin at 4 PM.

Students who change their mind and wish to take one exam only, may only leave the room starting from one half hour after the official start time of the exam.

For online exams, students may not take overlapping exams scheduled for the same date and time.

One of those exams may be taken in Moed Aleph and the other in Moed Bet; if necessary, a request may be made for a special Moed from the Status Office/Committee for Graduate Degrees. In such a case, students shall be eligible for a special exam period in the same academic year that the course was held.

 

Instructions for online Tomax-based exams

You must execute a trial exam on Tomax and periodically update the version on your computer and your smartphone.

Detailed technical requirements and preliminary instructions for online Tomax-based exams are available in the following link: Exam Office website.

Moed Bet

The right for grade improvement is granted to all students who wish to do so in accordance with the following general rules:

Students who did not take an exam in Moed Aleph at all or who received a grade of 70 or lower – appear automatically on the Moed Bet list and need not register explicitly.

Students who received a grade above 70 in Moed Aleph and would like to register for Moed Bet may do so via the In-Bar portal > under the column Register. The registration window opens 17 days before the exam date and closes 7 days before the exam date, not including the exam date itself. After registration is closed, you may register with the classroom proctors. Handling fee – 80 NIS, to be debited from your student tuition account. Please register in time and avoid handling fees.

Students who register for Moed Bet and would like to cancel, may do so via In-Bar, until one week before the exam date.

If an exam was taken in two exam periods (two Moeds), only the latter of the two counts.

Students who were already given an exam booklet and decided not to take the exam, for any reason, must wait 30 minutes in the classroom, and will receive a failing grade. This policy applies to exams in every exam Moed.

Grade improvement in a different semester or the following academic year:

A request must be submitted to the Status Office or to the Committee for Graduate Degrees through In-Bar.

 The complete guidelines for exams and additional details on the subject of exams and grades may be found on the Exam Office website.

Wishing you the best of luck on your exams!

 

                                                                                                Odelia Azany

                                                                                                Head of Exam Office