4.7.12 Examination Irregularity A student who is involved in any examination irregularity shall be suspended immediately by the Registrar (Academic) upon receipt of an incident report pending appearance before the Students’ Disciplinary Committee. The following constitute examination irregularities: a) Passing or receiving verbal, written or electronic communication (relevant to the examination) to or from other candidates or any other source during the examination. b) Unauthorized possession of used or unused examination answer booklet(s) outside the examination room or unauthorized possession of used or unused examination answer booklet(s) inside the room, other than the one issued during that particular examination. c) Possession / having any unauthorized written, graphic or recorded material or otherwise in the examination room. d) Copying and / or referring to other candidate's answer booklets or any other source e.g. parts of the body, clothing etc e) Possession of any notes recorded on paper, parts of the body or clothing. f) Possession and /or use of mobile phone, i-pods, electronic note book or any other unauthorized electronic gadget(s) or source inside the examination room. g) Returning examination answer booklets with written answers the examination. h) Plagiarism, i.e. falsely accessing another person's work and appending one's name and signature, claiming it to be one's own. This includes but not limited to copying other candidate(s) written, published or unpublished materials. i) Disrupting the conduct of examination. j) Destroying evidence pertaining to examination irregularity. k) Failure to one’s registration number or deliberately writing the wrong registration number on the answer booklet. l) Presenting oneself for an examination in a unit in which one is not registered for. m) Claiming for marks in a unit one knows he/she did not register for and/or sit for the examination. n) Writing on the examination question paper. o) Reading from other candidate’s answer script or question paper p) Permitting any other candidate to read or copy from one’s examination scripts. q) Impersonation of candidates or being impersonated during examination. r) Deliberate failure or refusal to hand in the examination script at the end of the examination. s) Assaulting and /or threatening an invigilator in the course of his/her duty. t) Involvement in and /or tampering with examination data. u) Any other offence that is deemed to constitute an examination irregularity.
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