Terms & privacy

BruinExams is a free, non-commercial collection of past UCLA exams, run by students. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or run by UCLA. Exams come from older student test banks and from uploads. They are rebuilt from scans into clean text, with answers removed where possible.

The site has no paywall, ads, sponsors or donations, and never will. Exams are not sold and may not be sold, in keeping with the UCLA Student Conduct Code.

Rebuilt exams can contain mistakes. Each exam says how carefully it was processed and reviewed. Check anything important against your own course materials, and use “Report a problem” when you spot an error.

BruinExams exists to help students study from past exams, the way student test banks always have. It is not a way to cheat, and it won't be used as one.

Where the exams come from. The initial archive was seeded from older student test banks of exams that were handed back to students after they were graded. New exams come from uploads checked by moderators. We don't knowingly host stolen, leaked or confidential exams. If you believe an exam here was obtained improperly, tell us and we'll take it down.

Not accepted, ever:

• an exam that is still being given, including make-ups, other lectures or other sections that haven't taken it yet;
• a leaked or stolen exam, or one photographed or copied during the test;
• an exam taken from an instructor, TA or course site without permission;
• an exam the instructor has said must not be shared;
• answer keys or solutions that were never released to students.

It's also against these terms to use the site during an exam, or to ask for, trade or pass around current exams through it.

Consequences. Anyone who uploads such material, or uses BruinExams to cheat, will have the material removed and their account permanently banned. Instructors can always ask for any exam to be removed (see Removal requests).

• It's for current UCLA students signed in with a @g.ucla.edu Google account.
• Use it to study. Don't use it during an exam, or in any way your instructor or UCLA's academic integrity rules don't allow. Cheating with it gets your account banned.
• Don't copy the collection in bulk, republish it elsewhere, or sell it.
• Don't try to get around the sign-in, the limits, or the moderators' checks.

Also not allowed:

• threatening, harassing or abusing moderators, other students or instructors;
• attacking or misusing the site: probing its security, overloading it, scraping it with bots, or uploading malware;
• uploading anything hateful, harassing, sexual, violent or illegal, or anything that isn't an exam;
• posting other people's personal information, or pretending to be someone else.

We may remove content, limit what an account can do, or suspend or permanently ban any account, at our discretion, including for reasons not listed here. We'll usually explain why, but we don't have to. BruinExams is a free service run by students and may change, pause or shut down at any time.

When you upload an exam, you confirm that:

• it's a real exam, quiz or practice exam from the UCLA course you picked;
• it was handed out or returned to students, or released to the class, and it follows the academic integrity rules above. Uploading a current, leaked or stolen exam gets your account banned;
• you're fine with it being shared with UCLA students on this site;
• the course, instructor and quarter you entered are correct, as far as you know.

What happens next:

• Your files stay private. Only moderators can open them. Students never see your scan or photos, your handwriting, or your answers.
• A moderator checks the upload. If it's approved, the exam is rebuilt into clean text, with names, student IDs, scores and filled-in answers removed. It's reviewed again before anyone can see it. This rebuilding may use an AI tool, which receives the file for that purpose.
• You give BruinExams permission to store your files and to publish the rebuilt version on this site. You can ask for your upload, or its rebuilt exam, to be removed at any time.
• Credit: if you leave “Credit me as a contributor” ticked, you may be listed on a contributors page later, under a display name you choose. Untick it to stay anonymous. Your email is never shown.
• Uploads can be rejected for any reason, for example a wrong label, a duplicate, a file that isn't a UCLA exam, or an instructor who has asked not to be included. Exams already in the archive can't be uploaded again.
• Each person can upload up to 10 exams a day.

What we keep, and why:

Your account

Your UCLA email address (from Google sign-in) and whether you're a member or moderator. We don't keep your Google password, photo or contacts.

Access requests

Your request message, and when you were let in. This is a log of who was given access.

Uploads

Your files, the details you entered, your note to moderators, whether you want credit, and the moderators' decision.

Feedback and reports

What you wrote, and the page you were on.

Moderator activity

Moderator decisions and every opening of an original scan are logged, so mistakes can be traced and undone.

On your device

A sign-in cookie so you stay signed in, and your light/dark choice, which stays in your browser. No analytics, advertising or tracking cookies.

Who can see it: only the site's moderators. Other students can see the published exams, and later the names of contributors who asked for credit, nothing else. We never sell or share your data for advertising.

Services we use to run the site, which handle data on our behalf: Google (sign-in), Supabase (database and accounts), Vercel (hosting), Cloudflare (file storage, domain and email forwarding), and, for rebuilding exams, an AI service (see above).

Your choices: you can ask for a copy of your data, or for your account and uploads to be deleted, by emailing us. Some records, like the moderator logs, may be kept in shortened form after your account is deleted.

Instructors, TAs and anyone else can ask for an exam, or all of an instructor's exams, to be removed. We act on these promptly and without argument. Request removal.

When these terms change, the date at the top changes; for significant changes we'll also say so on the site. Questions, data requests or concerns: contact@bruinexams.com.