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Important Information for CGA Students Writing CGA National Exams for Session 2 2009/2010
Dear Students:
The following is important information you will require prior to writing Session 2 09/10 National Exams. You can find an updated exam location schedule on our website. Please note there are some new locations for Calgary and Edmonton. A link to the location schedule can be found on the CGA Alberta website: www.cga-alberta.org.
Exam Room Rules:
- Students may not enter the exam room until instructed to do so. This will be no sooner than 15 minutes before the exam is scheduled to begin.
- Upon entering the room, students must place all belongings except allowable exam materials at the front of the room. This includes, but is not limited to cell phones and other electronic devices, coats, bags, knapsacks, and briefcases.
- Once seated you must leave your exam question booklets face down. You may enter your personal information in the answer booklets.
- Not all exam rooms will have clocks. Please bring a wristwatch to reference the time. Cell phones, PDAs and other electronic devices are NOT permitted to be on your person under any circumstance during the exam.
- Students must supply their own pens, HB or number 2 pencils, erasers, rulers and calculators. All necessary stationery is provided.
Any breach of exam regulations will result in a zero grade on your exam.
Allowable Exam Room Material
The intent of these restrictions is to ensure no student has an advantage over any other student writing the same examination.
Course materials
Students may only bring allowable materials into the examination room (see below). No other course material will be allowed. A student who brings other items to the examination room, including coats, bags, knapsacks, briefcases, cell phones, PDAs or other electronic devices will be required to leave them at the front of the room during the examination. The invigilator is not responsible for these items.
Calculators
Students must use their own calculators in examinations, which meet the following guidelines:
- The calculator is silent, battery-operated, and non-printing.
- The calculator has only one line of display.
- The calculator does not have alpha keys (no keys allowing text entry).
Students are responsible for ensuring their calculator batteries are fully operational. There will be no exchange or borrowing of calculators or batteries during the examination. No operating instructions will be allowed in the examination room.
No other mechanical, electronic, or other type of aid or material is permitted in the examination room.
Allowable TX1 and TX2 materials
Personal & Corporate Taxation (TX1) and Advanced Personal & Corporate Taxation (TX2) students may also bring copies of the CCH Canadian Income Tax Act with Regulations. The Income Tax Act may be highlighted, underlined, cross-referenced, tabbed or indexed. It may also contain any subjective or descriptive comments or notations. However, the Act may not contain any additional inserted pages of any type, from any source. More specific information with respect to the Act will be provided with course material.
The edition allowed for Session 2 2009/2010 exams is the Canadian Income Tax Act 88th Edition.
Allowable CM1 Materials
Business Communication (CM1) students may bring into the examination room an English dictionary, thesaurus, single-bound combination English dictionary/thesaurus, or a translation dictionary. The reference document must be paper-based and may be highlighted, underlined, cross-referenced, tabbed, or indexed. Study notes, module notes, or loose papers within the reference document are not permitted.
Allowable materials for Laurentian University courses (MM1, OR1, OM1, SP1, HC1, IN1, MM2, OR2, OM2, SP1, GM2, OL2, RM2)
Laurentian University students are allowed to use a dictionary or a translation dictionary or a thesaurus (dictionary/thesaurus) in the examination room for all Laurentian University courses. No electronic version of a dictionary/thesaurus is permitted. The dictionary/thesaurus can be highlighted or underlined. Any student whose dictionary/thesaurus contains additional pages, or in any other way contravenes the allowable examination room materials, will have his or her dictionary/thesaurus confiscated by the invigilator at the end of the examination upon turning in the examination booklet. If the dictionary/thesaurus is found to breach regulations, the student will be penalized in terms of the regulations outlined in the Laurentian University Policy Statement on Academic Dishonesty.
Allowable RM2 materials
Research Methods in Management (RM2) students are allowed to bring the course textbook - Business Research Methods by Donald Cooper and Pamela Schindler - into the examination room. Annotations are allowed and must be in the student's own handwriting. Students may not insert or affix any original or photocopied pages from any source, including textbooks, module notes, prior or practice examinations, assignments, marker comments sheets, lecturer handouts, and so on.