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Current Students
Current Students
Online Doctoral Exam Requests
Beginning in Spring Quarter 2009, the Graduate School moved its process for requesting General Exams and Final Exams online.
Those who completed General Exams prior to Spring 2009 might recall having to fill out a Request for Exam form and then obtain signatures and/or e-mails from committee members. The online Request for Exam will eliminate these time-consuming tasks and replace them with a faster, more transparent process. Another advantage of this online process is that students will be alerted to any concerns while submitting the exam request, rather than learning of the concerns afterwards.
After logging in with the UWNetID and password, doctoral students will proceed through 3-4 steps to schedule their exams. Students should keep in mind, however, that the online exam request is only one part of the process for completing the General Exam or Final Exam. For an overview of those processes, visit http://education.washington.edu/current/graduation/index.html.
PLEASE NOTE: students must schedule the exam date, time, and location with their supervisory committee members prior to submitting the online exam request. Signatures and/or e-mails are no longer required, but committee members must agree, in advance, to the date, time, and location.
To submit a General Exam or Final Exam request, visit http://www.grad.washington.edu/mygrad/student.htm.
Frequently Asked Questions
Please see below for a list of frequently asked questions about the online Doctoral Exam Requests. We will update this information as we learn more about doctoral student experiences with this process.
What does the series of numbers mean when it asks me to review my degree?
The series of numbers you see following the EDUC (or EDUCX) major constitute your “pathway code” and will be in the form “xx – y – z.”
- The first two digits (“xx”) are your pathway, or what we refer to in the College as your program or study option – Learning Sciences, Early Childhood Special Education, Organization & Policy Studies, Mathematics Education, and so on. Your pathway is based on the program or study option you selected when you applied to the College of Education (unless you have petitioned to change your program or study option since you began your doctoral studies). There are over 60 different pathways in the College — too many to list here. In general, however, the following guideline should be helpful:
- Curriculum & Instruction pathways are numbered 10-19;
- Educational Psychology pathways (including Learning Sciences) are numbered 20-29;
- Educational Leadership & Policy Studies pathways are numbered 30-39; and
- Special Education pathways are numbered 40-49.
- If you are concerned that your pathway is not correct, please contact your Area Office to verify.
- The third digit (“y”) is your degree level. Students with degree level “3” are pre-candidacy doctoral students (have not yet passed general exams); students with degree level “4” are doctoral candidates (have passed general exams).
- The final digit (“z”) is your degree type. Students with degree type “1” are Doctor of Philosophy students; students with degree type “8” are Doctor of Education students.
If your degree level and/or degree type are not correct, please contact the Office of Student Services.
My Supervisory Committee and/or Reading Committee are not listed in the exam request steps or are not listed correctly; what do I do?
- Discontinue your online exam request*;
- Complete a Request for Supervisory/Reading Committee form and obtain your faculty advisor’s signature on the form;
- Submit the Request for Supervisory/Reading Committee form to the Office of Student Services in 206 Miller;
- Once you receive an automated e-mail message indicating that your committee has been established or revised, submit the online exam request again.
* If you submitted the online exam request already, please contact the Office of Student Services to ask that your exam request be cancelled.
What is a contingency and why does the online exam request audit indicate that I have one?
If you receive a message indicating that you have a contingency, it means that you have not yet completed one or more of the minimum requirements for taking either the General Exam or the Final Exam. We recommend that you follow these steps:
- Review the minimum Doctoral Degree Requirements for clarification.
- Consider whether or not you will meet the minimum requirements by the end of the current quarter.
Example: if you have completed 25 dissertation credit hours and are enrolled for 2 in the current quarter, then you will have met the minimum requirement of 27 by the end of the current quarter.
- If the contingency/ies still doesn’t make sense in light of steps 1 and 2, contact the Office of Student Services for clarification.
I’ve heard that exam requests had to be submitted three weeks before the date of the exam – is that still true?
While this is no longer a strict requirement, we continue to use it as a guideline and strongly recommend that you adhere to it. Not only does the three week time period allow for careful resolution of any concerns, but it gives you peace of mind knowing that it is already done!
PLEASE NOTE: When an exam request is submitted less than ten calendar days before the date of the exam, we cannot guarantee that the request will be processed in time for the exam.
Other Questions?
- For technical difficulties or system error messages, contact Graduate Education Services.
- For questions related to your pathway code or program of study (see above), contact your Area Office.
- For questions related to your degree type/level (see above), your committee(s), or any contingencies, contact the Office of Student Services
