Leyte Normal University

Office of the Graduate School

ORIENTATION FOR THE ONLINE WRITTEN COMPREHENSIVE EXAM

 Below is the scheme for the Online Written Comprehensive Examination (OWCE):

November 13 & 14, 2021 (Saturday and Sunday)

Start -End
Day 1: 8:00 am – 2:00 pm Foundations Courses
Day 2: 8:00 am - 2:00 pm Specializations Courses
With no lunch break

● The GS Office shall issue a Google Meet link, which serves as the virtual examination room, to the test takers a day
before the scheduled examination wherein they have to join 30 minutes before the scheduled OCWE.

● PLEASE BE ON TIME (students must join the exam room by 7:30 AM.)

On the OCWE day and 30 minutes before the examination will commence, the following protocols will be read:

● Turn ON your video camera for the entire duration of the examination.
● Microphones must be turned OFF for the entire duration of the examination.
● The file containing the examination will be shared in the Google Meet Chat Box five (5) minutes before the
scheduled examination.
● The examination must be turned-in in PDF format via electronic mail sent to gradschool@lnu.edu.ph
● BE ON TIME. The online proctor will advise the test takers at exactly 8:00
o’clock that they can already open the examination file and that they may
already begin answering the examination. Attendance will be checked before
the start of the examination. Students who are late beyond 30 minutes will no
longer be accepted.

● A 30-minute grace period for the GS Office to accept late submissions is

allowed. This is to give some leeway to account for technical glitches, multiple
folder submissions, and other issues that may arise. All submissions are
automatically time-stamped by the GS Office and a reply acknowledging
receipt and access thereof will be sent to the test takers.

● All responses will be subjected to plagiarism checker before they will be sent
to the examiner for checking. NEVER COPY FROM THE INTERNET ANY IDEA.
● The identified team of faculty teaching the foundation and the specialization
courses shall collaboratively construct, confer, and decide as to what
questions shall be given during the Online Written Comprehensive
Examinations (OWCE). The identified team of faculty for the foundation and
the specialization courses shall also check and rate the said examinations
using a rubric.

● Multiple checkers, the professors who collaborated in making the integrative

test, will evaluate the responses using a rubric.

● The average of the scores will serve as the final mark of the student in the
examination covering the courses in the integrative test.
● In the case of no submission, the student automatically receives a failing mark,
except in cases of medical emergency situations for which proof, e.g. medical
certificate, must be submitted.

● The examination for the foundation courses and the specialization courses should
be taken by all examinees within the day given to avoid leakage. An examinee who
cannot take such examination within the day will fail that examination by default.

● For those students who are taking the comprehensive examination of one subject
for the second time, they will take the exam only for that subject during the day
the specific subject is scheduled.

● For those students who are taking the comprehensive examination of some
subjects (specialization) for the second time, they will take the integrative exam
only during the day the specialization courses are scheduled.
● Examinees are strictly NOT ALLOWED to write their name or write any
markings that may lead to their identity on any page of the answer sheet.
Student numbers will, instead, be used to identify the test papers.

● As this is a Comprehensive Examination, examinees are expected to show

their mastery of their field of study through their clear and complete
explications of ideas. No question should be left unanswered.

● Examinees are discouraged to be going out of the testing room unnecessarily

while the test is in progress. The examinees are advised to go to the comfort
room before the examinations begin.

● Cheating will not be tolerated and may result in the erring student’s
permanent disqualification from taking the comprehensive examination.
● A student is allowed one re-take of the written comprehensive examination. If the student
still fails in the first retake, he/she is allowed to officially audit the subject(s) he/she failed;
he/she will have a second chance to retake the examination for that particular subject.
Should the student fail once more, he/she is advised to enroll the subject/s again with
another teacher in which he/she should get a passing grade and take the comprehensive
examination for the last time.

● All examinees are issued the certificate indicating the ratings obtained in the different
subject areas tested with descriptive ratings of high pass, pass, low pass, or fail. Below is the
distribution of percent with the corresponding descriptive rating:

89-100 High Pass

88-70 Pass

50-69 Low Pass

Below 50 Fail
Should there be any questions that wasn’t discussed in the presentation, please
message the Office of the Graduate School thru:

Email: gradschool@lnu.edu.ph

FB Page: LNU Graduate School 2021

But by the grace of God I am what I am: and His grace which was bestowed upon me
was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God
which was with me.

1 Corinthians 15:10

MAY GOD BE WITH YOU IN YOUR EXAMINATIONS!

Josephine C. Pelingon, PhD

Dean, Graduate School