Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine (KPCOM)—Osteopathic Medicine Program 2025–2026 158 of the examination area, except the proctors or faculty members present. Non-approved materials are any materials for which the student has not received prior permission from the course director or chief proctor to use during an examination. Students may not bring pens or pencils into any examination. If needed, pens and pencils will be provided by the proctors. All examinations have a time limit. Students are not permitted to memorialize examination questions in any form for distribution to others. Any violation of this policy will be considered academic dishonesty and the student will be subject to referral to the SPC. a. Electronically Administered Examinations When an examination is administered electronically, students are required to arrive with their testing device appropriately configured to take the exam and fully charged. It is also recommended that students download the examination prior to the day of the exam. Students arriving without their testing device, or with a testing device that is not correctly configured, will be assigned an unexcused absence and will not be allowed to sit for the examination at that time. b. Hard Copy (Paper) Examinations Students are not permitted to write on the examination or in the examination booklet prior to the announced start of the examination, with the exception of providing the student’s name and required demographic information on the answer sheet. On paper exams, it is the student’s responsibility to complete all demographic information, examination answer form identification, and examination form answers on the optical character recognition (OCR, e.g., Scantron®) form or any other testing instrument prior to the end of the allotted examination time. Any writing on any examination materials after time has been called by the chief proctor will be considered academic dishonesty and the student is subject to referral to the SPC. Test forms submitted represent a student’s final answer and will be scored as marked. Answers not marked on the OCR form during the allotted examination time will be scored as incorrect. Examinations will be scored based on the test form identified by the student on the OCR form. Students turning in examination materials with insufficient demographic information bubbled in for the Testing Center to score the materials will be contacted by the Office of Preclinical Education and required to come to the office and complete bubbling in the necessary demographic information prior to the examination being scored. During the combined M1 and M2 years, offending students will have one point deducted from that examination grade at the first such offense, two points for the second offense, and five points plus notation in the MSPE at the third and subsequent offenses. The student will be referred to the SPC at the third and subsequent offenses. For integrated examinations where multiple courses are tested, the requisite points will be deducted from each course examination. Written examinations will not be returned to students and students will not be permitted to review their examinations. This is applicable to regularly scheduled course examinations, makeup examinations, reexaminations, and remediation examinations.
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