Bypass exam

Look for information on Canvas and signs posted in the Jacobs Science Building. Send an email to chemistry@uky.edu to sign up.

  • Offered in the first week of the Fall and Spring semesters for CHE 105 and 107
  • Students may sign up by emailing chemistry@uky.edu
  • Times and locations are posted in Canvas courses, on flyers in JSB, and available from chemistry@uky.edu 
  • Other info
    • Free to take
    • Score to pass depends on normed data from the American Chemical Society
    • Graded as pass/fail
    • No record of the exam for students who don’t pass
  • Information about the ACS exams we use is available at https://uwm.edu/acs-exams/

Students who have AP credit for CHE 105 and 107 may be eligible to take a CHE 113 bypass exam with appropriate record of high school lab experiments. Bring your lab notebook to JSB 261A to be reviewed by the Director of General Chemistry to determine eligibility for the exam.