To better assist educators in giving advice to students on examination completion methods, this study aimed to explore the relationship between the time a student utilizes uses to complete an exam and the score the student receives on that exam. This study analyzed exams from an introductory animal science course, taught by the same professor, offered within the Department of Animal Sciences within the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences (CFAES) during three different terms. The objective of this study was to determine the correlation between the amount of time students spend on an exam and the score received. This study also considered the effects of gender, rank, and educational plan on the scores received on these exams. It was hypothesized that students completing the exam with an intermediate submission time would score higher than students completing the exam with an early or late submission time. The purpose of this study was to allow educators in a natural sciences course to better advise students on exam taking techniques. Analysis showed no significant difference in any of the above categories except for on one exam. Students with a major within CFAES that was not Animal Sciences took longer to complete the final exam that did students of an Animal Sciences major or a major outside of the college.No embarg
