UNILAG Notice On Penalties/Sanction Over Examination Misconduct

The Senate of the University of Lagos has approved penalties and sanctions for various cases of examination misconduct as well as instructions to guide students during
examinations.

All Deans and Heads of Departments are requested to inform their students about the new development.

INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES
1.Candidates must attend a minimum of 65% of the lectures for the course; examiners have the
right to prevent defaulters from sitting for the examinations.
2.Candidates must be ready to enter the examination hall ten minutes before the time the examination is due to start. Candidates who
arrive more than half an hour after an examination has started shall be admitted only at the discretion of the invigilator(s).
3. Candidates may not leave the hall during the examination.
4. Candidates must come with their own writing materials to the examination hall.
5. Communication between candidates is strictly forbidden.
6. The only permissible way of attracting the attention of the invigilator is by the raising of
hand.
7. All rough work must be done in the answer booklets and crossed neatly throughout.
8. Candidates are to write legibly. Names are not to be written on the answer booklets. The answers to each question must be started on a
separate page.
9. Attendance register is to be signed at the commencement of the examination and as each candidate hands in the script to the invigilator.
10. Candidates must ensure that they have inserted at the appropriate places on the front cover of their booklets, their matriculation
numbers and the number of questions answered.
11. Mobile phones must be switched off in examination hall.

Candidates are hereby informed that any student caught or implicated in any act of misconduct would automatically cease to continue with the examination until the case has been declared.

The following prescribed penalties will be imposed on anyone cause committing the under listed acts of
misconduct. No plea will be entertained.

PENALTIES/SANCTIONS FOR EXAMINATION MISCONDUCT
1. Impersonation

Expulsion

2. Smuggling and Possession of Answer Script

Expulsion

3. Destruction of unauthorised Material

Expulsion

4. Attacking or threatening Invigilators

Expulsion

5. Tendering unauthentic document

Expulsion

6. Failure to submit answer script

Rustication (two semesters)

7. Recidivism:

Expulsion. Except cases listed in 15-19 below

8. Copying from Unauthorised material

Rustication (two semesters)

9. Possession of written materials : 1st Time;

Rustication (two semesters)
Recidivist: Expulsion

10. Aiding and Abetting others to copy

Rustication (two semesters)

11. Refusal to submit offending materials

Rustication (two semesters)

12. Collaborative Copying

Rustication (two semesters)

13. Refusal to complete Malpractice Forms

Rustication (two semesters)

14 Unauthorised communication

1st Time; Warning
2nd Time; Rustication(1 Semester)

15. Disruptive Behaviour

1st Time; Warning
2nd Time; Rustication(1 Semester).

16. Influencing Examination Official

1st Time; Warning
2nd Time; Rustication(1 Semester)

17. Unauthorised Changing of Sitting
Position 1st Time; Warning
2nd Time; Rustication(1 Semester)

18. Disobeying Examination Instructions

1st Time; Warning
2nd Time;Rustication(1 Semester)

19. Other related acts of Examination Misconduct not
specifically stated

Penalty shall be determined by the
Misconduct Panel.