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Fall 2008 Candidate Information
The Fall 2008 Professional Geologist (PG) examinations will be held at California State University Long Beach.
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The final filing date for applications for the Fall 2008 examinations is June 24. All application and examination fees, application forms, references and transcripts must be received by this date.
Please do not contact the Board for the status of your application; admission notices will be mailed in early September.
Admission tickets will be made available only by mail, so it is imperative that your address on file is current. If your address has changed, you must submit a Change of Address form, available on the Board's website.
Postponements
Deadlines for Postponement - The Board for Geologists and Geophysicists (Board) will accept postponements for reasonable cause with supporting documentation prior to August 13, 2008. Requests for postponement received after the deadline must establish the extenuating circumstances in addition to providing reasonable cause with supporting documentation. Non emergency postponements received after the deadline will be rejected. Please see the below link for eligibility information.
Policies from the ASBOG® candidate handbook (available at http://www.asbog.org)
Institution Codes
Candidates will be asked to provide on their answer sheet(s), for both the FG and PG examination administrations, the "Institution Code" for the college/university from which they received their geological science degree(s); i.e., (BA/BS and MA/MS or PhD/DSc). This information will be used only to provide institutions with aggregate data on how their students – on the average – performed on the National Geology Examination(s). Individual candidate examination scores are considered confidential information and will not be provided to the institutions (See "RELEASE OF CANDIDATE SCORES" on Page 5 of this Handbook). Candidates who do not find their institution(s) on the InstitutionCodes List will be given instructions by the Examination Administrators' Proctor(s) on how to proceed; e.g., there will be a place on the cover of the examination booklet for you to write the name of your institution(s). The Institution Codes List with Index is available on the ASBOG® Web site (www.asbog.org), under Examination. This List will be updated as changes/new codes are assigned.
References/Hand Instruments
The FG and PG are closed-book examinations. No references are permitted; however, portable (battery-operated or solar-powered), silent, non-printing, non-alpha programmable calculators are allowed. Please note that calculators, or any other wireless electronic devices that have email/ Internet/text messaging capability will NOT be allowed and will be confiscated if policy is violated. This applies to cellular phones and scanning pens as well. A protractor, straight edge, engineer's scale, and colored pencils may be brought to the examination. ASBOG® provides Number Two pencils which will be distributed by the Examination Proctor.
Special Accommodations
The Examination Administrator will provide for reasonable accommodations to qualified candidates with disabilities. If you have a disability and require special accommodations to take the examination, contact your Examination Administrator as soon as possible and inquire about any necessary "documentation of disability" to be submitted with your application. If special accommodation is not requested in advance, the Examination Administrator cannot guarantee the availability of accommodation on site at the time of testing. Any request for modification to the examination(s) must be submitted in writing by the Examination Administrator and received by ASBOG® no later than ninety (90) calendar days prior to the scheduled examination.
