MISSED LABORATORY WORK

As per the Calendar and the Faculty of Science regulations (3.6 A “Missed Components of Term Work), students are required to notify the laboratory coordinator within 48 hrs of missing a laboratory section.

Students are required to make up any absences e.g., those for which an official documentation have been provided to the Laboratory Coordinator.  

At the Laboratory Coordinators discretion, you will be allowed to make up other laboratory sessions that were missed for reasonable reasons. 

All absences must be made within ONE WEEK of returning to the university, and by prior arrangement with the Laboratory Coordinator.  No absences can be made up once the same graded work has been returned to other students in the course.

Each student is allowed one laboratory make up opportunity per semester (except where prearranged special permission has been granted). 

In order to make up a missed laboratory section, you must first complete the "Temporary Change of Laboratory Section" form.
The information on the course website will allow you to find another laboratory section in your normal room (so you can use your own glassware) that you can attend.  Once the form is completed and ideally at least 24hrs in advance (to enable the appropriate experiment to be available for you), email this form to your laboratory coordinator to be approved and signed by the Laboratory coordinator before you make up the experiment. 

When you attend the make-up session, you must get the TA in the section you attend to sign the form at the beginning of the laboratory period.

This sheet must then be stapled to your report when you submit your report for grading.

Notes

• If you try to make up an experiment without the having the form first approved by the Laboratory Coordinator, then the TA will not allow you to start work in the laboratory.
• Any report submitted without the Temporary Change of Section form attached for an experiment that you missed in your regular section will not be graded.

In order to obtain a prerequisite pass the course (i.e. C-), a minimum passing mark in the Laboratory (50%) is required.

Students are required to complete a minimum number of experiments (i.e. attend laboratory session and submit a report, see the appropriate manual for details). Students who fail to do so will be judged to have failed the laboratory component and therefore will be ineligible for a prerequisite pass (C- or better).Therefore any student who has concerns about satisfying this requirement should talk to the laboratory coordinator as soon as possible.