When you are ready to write your examination, you must complete and submit an Examination Request Form. You do not require permission to write an examination; however, we recommend that you discuss your preparedness with your tutor or learning facilitator. You will first need to contact the examination centre or your invigilator and select a date and time to write, and to discuss possible fees. You must submit your Examination Request Form well in advance of your requested write date.

   Exam Request Deadlines

When you are ready to request an examination, complete and submit the online Examination Request Form (available as a PDF below, or through myAU), or use the form included in your learning resources package.

Before you submit the form, it is important that you continue to review the following sections.

  Online – Examination Request Form
  PDF – Examination Request Form

Students with Disabilities

If you are a student with a disability or you are registered for services through Access to Students with Disabilities (ASD), and you require accommodations for your examinations, please use the Access to Students with Disabilities Examination Request Form.

  ASD Examination Request Form

If you are a student with a disability who requires exceptional examination accommodations, you must request your examination 30 days before your write date to allow additional time to prepare the examination. In rare circumstances these time limits may be extended for specific examinations.

  ASD website

Where do I write?

Students can write at an examination centre located in the University's Athabasca, Edmonton, or Calgary, Alberta offices. In addition, a Canada-wide Examination Invigilation Network has been established and is comprised of many post-secondary institutions that are AU approved invigilation sites.

Students who do not have access to an examination centre, may propose an invigilator; a person approved by Athabasca University to oversee the writing of examinations. Athabasca University students living outside Canada write their examinations at an approved post-secondary institution or Canadian Embassy.

  Examination Centres
  Invigilators

When do I write?

All examination requests, with the exception of supplemental examinations, must be received by AU on or before your course contract end date. Examination requests received prior to the course contract end dates, but not within the examination request deadlines, will be treated as a Late Exam Request. You cannot write an examination before your course contract start date.

After you submit your Examination Request Form, the University aims to have your exam arrive at the examination centre or your invigilator, approximately one week before your requested write date. For exam security reasons, the University also reserves the right to delay the shipment of examinations that have write dates scheduled well into the future.

Students are able to write their examinations after their Contract Start Date, but after their requested write date, if the invigilator can accommodate them.

Athabasca University cannot guarantee that your examination will arrive before your requested write date. Timelines are dependent on your geographic location.

Examination Request Form

Exam Request Deadlines

If you are requesting to write an exam at an AU location (i.e. AU Athabasca, AU Edmonton, or AU Calgary), you must request your exam 10 days before your requested write date.

If you are requesting an exam within Canada or the United States at an established AU Approved Invigilation Centre you must request your exam 20 calendar days prior to your requested write date.

If you are outside of Canada and the United States and requesting an exam to be invigilated at an established AU Approved Invigilation Centre, your request must be received 30 calendar days prior to your requested write date.

If you are requesting to write an exam at an invigilator not established as an AU Approved Invigilator, your request must be received 60 calendar days prior to you requested write date.

  Examination Centres
  Invigilators

If your examination request is received prior to or on your course contract end date but not within the Exam Request Deadlines your request will be considered a Late Examination Request. You will be charged the Late Exam Fee. Your exam will then have to be completed not later than 30 calendar days after your course contract end date. This is not an extension; tutor support will not continue and all other coursework must be submitted prior to your course contract end date.

For exam security reasons, Athabasca University reserves the right to delay the shipment of examinations that have a write date scheduled well into the future. Whenever possible, examinations are shipped to an approved invigilator or an approved invigilation centre so that the exams arrive approximately one week before the requested write date.

Examinations are not shipped during the last week in December when the University is closed.

Examination requests that are received prior to the University closure for courses with a course contract end date of December 31 are allowed additional time to write their examinations without being charged the Late Exam Fee. Exams requested prior to the University closure for courses with a contract end date of December 31 must be completed no later than January 15 of the following year.

This additional time does not apply to other course work such as assignments and quizzes, which must be completed on or before the December 31 course contract end date.

Any examination requests received after the university closure, but prior to the course contract end date of December 31 will be processed as a Late Examination Request.

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