Every effort will be made to avoid the scheduling of examinations on Saturdays, Sundays, or public holidays observed in the country in which the course is being offered.
Examinations scheduled over multiple subsequent days, with different time windows for individual students, such as most Practical Course Examinations (OSPEs, OSCEs), may include Saturdays or Sundays, but not public holidays observed in the country, if the individual student does not spend more than 4 hours total (individual testing time plus sequestration time) under examination conditions.
It is the responsibility of the Course Director to ensure that there is no new material, with new learning objectives, taught on the day prior to an examination. There are no restrictions on review sessions, such as Interactive Multiple Choice Question sessions (IMCQs), Themed Office Hours (TOHs), or similar scheduled class events that are focused on application of previously taught material, rather than presentation of new course material during this time window.
For written Course Examinations of courses that are being offered simultaneously in multiple countries (for example Grenada and the UK in year one of the Basic Sciences), the timing is simultaneous (same UST), including download windows and CHECK IN times.
In case different cohorts of students require different start times, a different version of the examination has to be produced for each cohort, with equivalent (content and difficulty), but not identical test items.