Can a student, in a FOIP request, receive a copy of his or her own completed examination papers?
• The answers to examination questions are a part of the student’s educational history and are personal information (section 1(n)(vii)). However, if the examination paper is going to be used again in the near future and the institution can document this fact, then the questions may be severed from the record before releasing the answers to the student (section 4(1)(g) and section 26(b)). • Order F2002-012 contains the first consideration of section 4(1)(g). A school’s English 10-H final exam questions, instructions and the reading passages on which the exam questions were excluded from the application of the FOIP Act by section 4(1)(g), the exclusion for a question that is to be used on an examination or test. • Is it permissible to post in the halls of the institution the student names and numbers of those who are “eligible to graduate” to ensure that students know whether or not they have successfully completed or are registered in all the courses required for graduation? • No, lists
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