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New York Course Final Exam and Proctor Policy

*IMPORTANT*

The State of New York requires that the final exam for this course be proctored.

New York State Rules and Regulations 19 NYCRR, Section 176.23 (g) states: The course must include a proctored final examination which must be held at a location within New York State approved by the Department.

All examinations must be administered under supervision in accordance with the following policy to ensure that total security is provided for the examinations prior to, during, and after administration, as required by New York Law. Students are prohibited from copying or otherwise duplicating or reproducing examinations and examination questions. Examinations taken without proper supervision (as detailed below) may be not be credited toward the required passing score in the course. A student must score at least 70% and adhere to this final exam and proctor policy in order to pass the course.

Please note the falsifying proctor information will invalidate your examination score and may possibly forfeit your right to be licensed in the State of New York. Students who take an examination without an acceptable proctor (as detailed below) will be required to complete an pass an additional attempt in compliance with the policy before they will be awarded credit for the course examination. Students are given two chances to pass the proctored course final exam. Exam taken without an approved proctor or outside the following guidelines will be scored as a 0% and will count as a failed exam attempt.

Attempts to defraud exam results or proctoring will be reported directly to the Division of Licensing Professionals (DOLS), Real Estate Division and access to your course will be removed immediately.

General Proctoring Guidelines Each attempt at the final exam must be supervised by a proctor from our list of locations approved by the State for our school to utilize. A proctor from our list must be present immediately before, during, and immediately after the exam. Additionally, proctoring appointments must be scheduled through our school, not the proctor location directly (more information below).

In-Person Proctoring Guidelines

Our school provides a list of proctors that we have had approved by the Real Estate Division of the New York Department of State to proctor exams for our students. The list is sorted by city and includes the address of each facility as well as their general availability for proctoring. You will need to use the information in this list to select a location where you would like to take your exam. Proctoring appointments must be scheduled in advance and must be made through our school.

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Scheduling an Exam 1. Complete at least 75% of your course. You should refer to the progress bar on your dashboard for this information. 2. Go to your Supplemental Material tab, and open the "Course Final Exam Proctor Instructions" document. 3. Click on the link for the New York Proctor List as well as the link next to the line that reads, "To Schedule Your Proctored Exam ? Click HERE." 4. Read the information at the top of the NY Proctor Appointment Scheduling form, then complete all fields on the form: a. Choose your Appointment Type ? i. If you are scheduling your initial appointment for an exam attempt, select "Initial Appointment Setup." ii. If you had an appointment, cancelled that appointment, and are submitting a request for a new appointment, select "Reschedule Previous Appointment." b. Enter your first and last name as it appears on your account. You can verify the name on your account by going to My Account > Account Information from your dashboard. i. If you need to update the name on your account, please contact Customer Service. c. Enter your address as it appears on your account. You can verify the address on your account by going to My Account > Account Information from your dashboard. i. If you need to update the address on your account, you can edit that information from Account Information. d. Enter your email address as it appears on your account. You can verify the email address on your account by going to My Account > Account Information from your dashboard. i. If you need to update the email address on your account, please contact Customer Service. e. Enter your Course Registration Date. This information is located underneath the progress bar on your dashboard. f. Enter your Course Expiration Date. This information is located underneath the progress bar on your dashboard. i. Your exam must be scheduled and taken before your course expires. Depending on your desired testing date and the expiration date of your course, a course extension may need to be purchased in order to take your final exam. Note that courses cannot be extended beyond 1 year from the registration date of your course. ii. We recommend scheduling your first exam attempt at least two weeks before your course expiration date. g. For the "Appointment Details" section of the form, refer to the New York Proctor List to select a Preferred Proctor Facility and enter the name of that facility in the corresponding field on the NY Proctor Appointment Scheduling form.

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h. Enter the address of that facility as it appears on the proctor list in the corresponding field.

i. Using the general availability parameters for the facility on the proctor list, enter three different dates and times AT LEAST FOUR TO FIVE (4-5) BUSINESS DAYS AWAY during which you can take your exam. i. Please pay special attention to the facility's general availability on the proctor list as requests outside these parameters cannot be accommodated. ii. The date and time combinations must be unique for the three options and should be entered in order of preference.

j. Please use the Special Requests field to include any additional information that is relevant to scheduling your exam. This could additional locations that would also work for you, more specific information about what times/timeframes work for you or do not work for you, etc.

k. Once all fields are complete, click Submit.

Once we receive this form, we will use the next 4-5 business days to try and schedule your proctored exam. Calling our office will not expedite this process. You will receive an email from our Grades Department confirming the exam date, time, and location once the appointment has been scheduled. We will make every attempt to accommodate your request; however, due to proctor limitations, we cannot guarantee the proctor will be available at the times/dates you request. We will contact you for additional availability, if necessary.

If you are unable to keep your scheduled appointment, it is your responsibility to contact the proctor to cancel. To reschedule your exam, you must re-submit the electronic scheduling request form. Every student is allowed one complimentary reschedule of the exam. After the first rescheduled appointment, there is a $25.00 fee for each subsequent change. Rescheduling fees must be paid before a new proctor appointment will be scheduled.

Exam Information The final exam has 100 questions and is the last chapter of the course. The course final exam must be taken and passed with a score of 70% in order to complete the course. Do not enter the course final exam until you are with the designated proctor at the appointed date and time or that exam attempt will be marked as failed.

On the day of your exam, please report to the appointed location at the date and time on your confirmation email. Make sure to bring a photo ID for verification. You may bring a simple calculator to use with no advanced functions or letters on the keypad. You should not bring any other materials as they are not permitted while testing ? this is a closed-book exam. You will not be allowed to leave the exam area for any reason during the exam. The proctor must monitor you during the entire exam process.

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The proctor will check your photo ID to verify your identity before allowing you to start your exam. When you and the proctor are ready for you to begin the exam, you will log into your account on our website and navigate to the pre-exam affidavit. You must complete the pre-exam affidavit in order to gain access to the course final exam.

If you do not receive a passing grade, you will be shown your score as a percentage and prompted to return to your account home page. If this was your first attempt at the final exam, you will need to set up another appointment using the NY Proctor Scheduling form. If this was your second attempt at the final exam, your course has been failed. Contact Customer Service for re-registration information.

If you receive a passing score on your exam, an online proctor form will appear on the screen. Your proctor must fill out and submit this information immediately and completely. Once the online proctor form has been completed, a copy of this form is sent to our Grade Department via email. If the form is not completed or if it is completed in violation of our final exam policy, then the exam attempt will be marked as failed. The Grades Department sends an email to the proctor's email address that was entered on the online proctor form requesting confirmation that the exam was monitored in accordance with our policies. The proctor must reply back to that email with a positive response in order for us to accept the exam attempt as valid.

Post-Course Affidavit and Certificate of Completion In addition to receiving proctor confirmation, we must receive a signed affidavit from the student after he/she has completed the course. A copy of this required affidavit is located in the Supplemental Material tab as well as accessible through a purple button on the account homepage after the final exam has been completed.

Once we have received proctor confirmation and the signed affidavit, we activate the corresponding course completion certificate on the student account homepage. Student completion information is also included on a weekly roster submitted to the state.

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