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Final Comprehensive Examination

A candidate for a degree must make a satisfactory standing in a final
comprehensive examination on his Field of Concentration, set by the
faculty of his Major School. This examination shall be in lieu of separate
final examinations in all courses in the Field of Concentration, taken in the
session of graduation, which the Major School may include in it. It may be
wholly a written examination, or partly written and partly oral.