比较日期
For the 2024-2025 academic year, the comprehensive exam dates are as follows:
November 16th - Fall 比较
4月12日——春季比赛
7月12日-夏季比赛
There is an established pattern for comprehensive exam dates so students can plan for them well ahead of time. Here are the dates in perpetuity:
3rd Saturday of November - Fall 比较
2nd Saturday of April - Spring 比较
2nd Saturday of July - Summer 比较
We are currently in discussion with 特瓦 concerning the dates of comprehensive exams for Jewish 古典教育 Concentration students, as Saturdays are the Jewish 安息日. We will have the correct dates for 特瓦 students up on the website soon.
Frequently Asked Questions
你 can only take comps once you have finished coursework or are in the last semester of coursework (usually no more than 4 credits).
你 can take no more than 3 credits in the semester in which you take comps. 比较 do not count towards your active status. Therefore, if you plan to only take comps this semester, you must also be registered for a readings course. 毕业阅读 course is a placeholder course to ensure active status. Please coordinate with the 布兰尼夫办事处(braniff@gdlheng.com)关于注册.
你 can take comps during any three hour window during normal business hours. 你 will receive an email informing you of the default time 关于考试 sometime during the semester in which you take comps. 你 don’t need to take it at this time, but 上午比较好. 你 can adjust the start time 关于考试 up to four hours in either direction, but to do so, you must notify classical_ed@gdlheng.com with the time and time zone in which you intend to take your exam. 无论何时 you take it, you have three hours from the time you first see the exam. 时钟 does not stop if you take a break.
The exam is to be completed on a computer,* either in Word or in another word processor—starting with blank documents only—and then converted to a PDF. Each exam answer should be saved as a separate file and all the answers, together with the signed 普洛克特形式, 应该寄回吗 Dr. Weinhold by the proctor, with the student's email copied, by 3.5 hours after the exam has 开始. All of these directions will also be included on the exam.
Ideally, this exam is not to be taken on the student's own computer, and the student should not be signed into any of their accounts. Students will receive 副本 of their answers well in advance of the defense date, so they need not worry about retaining 副本. If a student must use their own computer, this should be indicated on the 普洛克特形式.
请电子邮件 classical_ed@gdlheng.com 有问题吗？.
Please use the soon-to-be-provided form to give the department the information for your proposed exam proctor. The paper form which you may have seen as a PDF is not to be completed now but on the day 关于考试. 请寄给 classical_ed@gdlheng.com your proposed proctor's information via the 谷歌的形式 a month before the exam date.
Comprehensive exam defenses occur online in twenty minute slots. 一个Google表单 be sent out after the comprehensive exams take place for you to sign up for your slot. 您可以联系 classical_ed@gdlheng.com 对于考试的答案.
监考须知
Thanks to all proctors for agreeing to help. The 普洛克特形式, which will be filled out on the day 关于考试 (not now) will be linked here. 你的工作是确保 quiet environment, to ensure that the test-taker uses no outside resources, and to send the director of the department (pweinhold@gdlheng.com) the exam answers when the student has completed the exam. 你会收到考试结果的 early in the morning on the day 关于考试.
The exam is to be completed on a computer,* either in Word or in another word processor—starting with blank documents only—and then converted to PDF. Each exam answer should be saved as a separate file and all the answers, together with the signed 普洛克特形式, should 被送回 Dr. Weinhold by the proctor, with the student's email copied, by 3.5 hours after the exam has 开始. All of these directions will also be included on the exam.
Ideally this exam is not to be taken on the student's own computer, and the student should not be signed into any of their accounts. I will send the students 副本 of their answers well in advance of the defense date, so they need not worry about retaining 副本. If a student must use their own computer, this should be indicated on the 普洛克特形式.
Note for the proctors: Please follow the instructions on the first page 关于考试 and send the student's answers back to pweinhold@gdlheng.com with a signed copy of the 普洛克特形式. 你 need not strictly follow the start time indicated on the exam, but please limit the student to three hours from the start 关于考试. Do not stop the clock for any breaks.
*If a student must use their own computer, this should be indicated on the proctor form.