Centrally scheduling your exams

The Progression, Assessment and Awards Office will manage centrally scheduled examinations. All other examinations are considered school scheduled examinations. These will be managed by the relevant School, unless centrally scheduled by the Progressions,
Assessment and Awards Office. OUA examinations will be scheduled and supported by the Progression, Assessment and Awards Office in accordance with the OUA study periods.

Students will make themselves available for scheduled examinations. Centrally scheduled examinations may occur on any day or evening during the examination period or other centrally scheduled assessment period, including weekends where required. Centrally and school-scheduled examinations will not be held during study weeks or tuition free weeks.

Your personalised draft and final timetables will be made available in OASIS.

Six weeks prior to the examination period a draft timetable will be published
You will have one week to provide feedback to your schools or faculty about the timetable
Four weeks prior to the examination period a final timetable will be published
Two weeks prior to the examination period your examination venue will be published (if you have a face to face exam).

Exceptions

Exceptions may apply where alternative arrangements have been made under the following processes.

Assessment extension and deferred exam application

Apply for deferred exam using the assessment extension process.

An application for an Assessment Extension should be submitted prior to the assessment due date/time. An application may be accepted up to five working days after this at the discretion of the decision-maker, where the student is able to provide a reasonable explanation as to why they were not able to submit their application prior to the assessment due date/time.

Approval for an Assessment Extension will only be given where the decision-maker is satisfied that the reason a student was not able to complete an assessment task was due to exceptional circumstances beyond the student’s control. The existence of exceptional circumstances does not in itself mean that an application for Assessment Extension will be approved.

Some assessments may allow you to self-certify your assessment extension application. View further information in our FAQ What is self-certification for an assessment extension application?

Examination arrangements for external students

Based on your address in your eStudent account, if you are externally enrolled and residing within 100 kilometres linear distance of a Curtin campus, you will have to sit your exam(s) at that campus, unless you have approved Curtin Access Plan (CAP) that states otherwise.

If you are externally enrolled and residing more than 100 kilometres linear distance from a Curtin campus, then you will be advised to sit your exam(s) as an online invigilated exam using Respondus. The university will contact you prior to final exam timetable publication to advise you of the details.

If you are internally enrolled, you are not eligible to sit an external exam and must sit your exam(s) at the campus of your enrolment.

Further Assessment eligibility

A Further Assessment is when an eligible student is given the opportunity to meet the required learning outcomes of a unit by completing an additional assessment task. This task may be different to that which was originally completed.

Further Assessments are not offered to all students and are awarded on a case-by-case basis by the discretion of the Board of Examiners (BoE). Not all units are eligible for a Further Assessment. A unit’s eligibility for Further Assessment will be detailed in the Unit Outline.

Please note that the criteria in which the BoE consider when awarding Further Assessments varies depending on when you commenced the relevant study period:
View the criteria applicable for study periods that commenced prior to 1 June 2022.
View the criteria applicable for study periods that commenced after 1 June 2022.

If you are granted a Further Assessment you will notified of the details via your Official Communications channel. It is your responsibility to be available to attend or complete the Further Assessment based on the instructions provided by the organising area. If you pass the Further Assessment, you will retain your initial mark but will be awarded a pass for the unit.

If you have concerns regarding your academic studies, including appealing your marks, please contact Student Wellbeing or the Guild Student Assist for support.

Alternative assessment and examination arrangements

The process for arranging an alternate assessment or examination will vary depending on the reason for needing one; disability or medical support requirements, on religious or social inclusion grounds, or because of commitments to an elite athlete program.

To find out more, view Curtin’s Alternative examination arrangements page.

Examinations for other institutions

Curtin facilitates examinations for various Australian and overseas universities, colleges, institutions of further education and training.

Find out more about hosting exams at Curtin