MISE Exam Details
The MISE exam will be offered during the fall and spring semesters. Students
expecting to graduate in the summer should take the exam during one of the previous
two semesters. The exam will be given to all students at the same time and outreach
students will coordinate with their respective proctors to take the exam during
a fixed time window.
The exam will include one "section" for each core course and students will complete
the three sections associated with the required core courses and the two sections
associated with the courses they took as part of the "choose 2" part of the core.
As such, each student will complete five sections of the exam. Each section should
nominally require 30 minutes to complete and the questions will be roughly equivalent
to "final exam" questions. Sections will be equally weighted so each will count
20% of the overall exam grade.
"Passing" the exam means scoring at least 60% on the overall exam. There is
no requirement related to individual exam sections (i.e., a student could score
100% on three sections and 0% on the other two and still pass). If a student
fails the exam one time, s/he may repeat the exam at the next offering. The student
may also opt for the project option after failing the exam the first time. Any
student who fails the exam twice in any combination (exam option and project option)
is immediately dismissed from the program.
Students will sign-up for the exam at the beginning of the semester during which
they wish to take it. The exam sign-up process will be via email. There is no make-up exam. If you miss the exam during a given semester for any reason, you will need
to take the exam during the next offering (or later).
Fall 2009 Implementation
- The MISE exam will held on the afternoon of Friday, October 30 for on-campus students. Outreach students can take the exam any time between
October 23 and October 30 and the completed exams must be returned by the proctor
no later than November 1.
- All portion of the exam will be "open book" and "open notes".
- You must sign-up for the exam no later than October 1. To sign-up for the exam,
send an email to the Graduate Coordinator (Jeff Smith ) indicating that you plan to take the exam and specify the two "optional" core
courses that your exam should cover. Note that your sign-up is not complete until you receive an acknowledgement email. The acknowledgement email will be your "admission ticket" for the exam.
