Eligibility for Make-Up Examinations
A make-up examination may be available after a genuinely unavoidable absence, subject to the applicable academic year, faculty, campus, and eligibility requirements.
When a Make-Up Examination May Be Held
For the 2026 academic year, at the Saitama Hatoyama Campus Faculty of Science and Technology and the Tokyo Senju Campus Faculty of Engineering, a make-up examination may be held for a student who could not take a semester-end or midterm examination because of a genuinely unavoidable circumstance, such as sudden illness. The examination is held when the instructor responsible for the course considers it necessary. The same rule is stated for the 2025 academic year at the Tokyo Senju Campus Faculty of Engineering. For the 2026 academic year at the Faculty of Future Science, a make-up examination is available when acute illness or another genuinely unavoidable circumstance prevented the student from taking a semester-end or midterm examination, and it may be held when the course instructor considers it necessary.
Reasons That Are Not Accepted
For the 2026 academic year at the Tokyo Senju Campus Faculty of Engineering, misreading the Academic Assessment Implementation Guidelines or oversleeping is not accepted as a genuinely unavoidable reason for a make-up examination.
Eligibility and Required Procedure
For the 2026 academic year at the Faculty of System Design and Technology, a student considered for a make-up examination must meet the eligibility requirements for the semester-end examination and complete the prescribed procedure within the period designated by the faculty administrative office.
Official sources
The following official Tokyo Denki University materials were used to prepare this page.
- 2026 Student Handbook — School of Engineering (2026 academic year) — PDF page 121
- 2026 Student Handbook — School of Engineering (2026 academic year) — PDF page 297
- 2025 Student Handbook — School of Engineering (2025 academic year) — PDF page 297
- 2026 Student Handbook — School of Future Science (2026 academic year) — PDF page 232
- 2026 Student Handbook — School of System Design and Technology (2026 academic year) — PDF page 216
- 2026 Student Handbook — School of Science and Engineering (2026 academic year) — PDF page 307