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Most units require you to sit a final exam at the end of each semester.
Exams are held during a 14 day period that commences one week after teaching ends.
The exam timetable is published to the CDU website two weeks prior to the exam period.
Your exam/s can be scheduled on any day during the exam period and you may be required to sit more than one exam in one day.
You will be emailed a personalised exam timetable to your CDU email account when the timetable is published and it will reflect your local timezone.
The Summer Semester special exam period will be held between 14-17 April 2020.
The Final Exam Timetable is now available. Personalised timetables were sent to CDU student email accounts on 19 March 2020.
It is recommended that you arrive at the exam no later than 15 minutes prior to the exam start time.
Some exams have specific conditions, such as materials that you can bring. These will be explained on your exam timetable so ensure that you read all the information carefully when preparing.
General rules are:
If you live within a designated radius of a CDU campus, you are required to attend your exam at that campus.
Exams at these venues will be referred to as on-campus exams and is mandatory regardless if you are studying as an internal or external (online) student.
If you live outside of the designated radius from a CDU exam campus, these will be referred to as an off-campus exams.
CDU Casuarina
Ellengowan Drive
Casuarina, Northern Territory
Casuarina campus map (PDF, 956.93 KB)
CDU Alice Springs
Grevillea Drive
Alice Springs, Northern Territory
Alice Springs campus map (PDF, 806.21 KB)
CDU Sydney
Level 10, 815 George Street
Haymarket, Sydney, New South Wales
CDU Melbourne
Venue to be advised
CDU has several approved University Exam Centres around Australia.
The centre closest to your home residence will be allocated as your off-campus exam centre. You will be advised of your allocated exam centre via an email sent to your CDU student account.
If another approved off-campus venue is more appropriate for you, you can request to sit your exam/s at that location however, this is subject to CDU approval.
You must confirm your allocated exam centre or nominate an alternative by the deadline provided in the email notification.
Not doing so means you will not be scheduled to sit your exam/s.
If you live outside of the radius of an approved University Exam Centre, you can nominate a tertiary institution in your area. If there is no appropriate local tertiary institution you can nominate a private invigilator. Details on how to do this will be provided in the email.
It is important to ensure that your address is correct on your student record so that we allocate the closest off-campus exam centre. To check or update your address visit MyStudentInfo.
All correspondence regarding exams and their locations will be sent to your CDU student email account. It is your responsibility to check your CDU email account or set up mail forwarding through Managing My Student Account.
Charles Darwin University reserves the right to amend the kilometre radius to facilitate exams as needed.
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