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Seton Hall Law's policy says that if a student's laptop fails during an exam, the student must finish the answer by hand, and no extra time is allowed for computer problems.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“the student must continue answering the exam by hand-writing it. No additional time will be allowed for attempting to resolve computer problems during the exam.”
Laptop Policy, Seton Hall University School of Law, n.d., Laptop failure section.
Open the original- What it measures
- The policy covers laptop exams. It tells students to notify the proctor, and it says exam answers may be retrieved from the hard drive after the exam, then combined with the handwritten part.
- What it does not show
- A school's own rule, read on 2026-10-17. Other schools set their own fallback rules, so the rule at your school is the one that counts.