This is only due to the poor communication policy by Udacity. They should really kepp the news section up to date. At the moment, the latest news item is the final exam reminder / extension -- however it should be that a) submission for the final exam is closed and b) exam grades are due in a few days time. Then let us subscribe to this by RSS and simply post and announcement when the grades are up. I've noticed this weaknesses throughout the course and think Udacity could benefit from shifting the official communication from the forums or hidden announcements under the homework tab to the news section so everyone is able to read it.

Yup.

Please Udacity, put up a release date for the results next time. Unless your want your progresspage "naturally DDos'ed" by all our clicking!!!

I just keep telling myself that in a real college class I wouldn't get my final exam results immediately either. (That doesn't stop me from clicking on the Progress link and refreshing madly 20 times a day though ;-) )

Once every hour!, I wanted to see my results soon. But it seems that those robots are taking python programming classes.

Hey guys, you know you could resubmit all your answers and get an immediate (though preliminary) result already (as I was reminded of myself by @Tom Vandenbosch)?
Have fun!

I do want to know my reults too

but knowing all the bugs there were in the system

I'm not going to click on the exam questions unitl I have the official result --

I don't want to confuse the grading robots by sudden wanting to submit a new answer

I am pressing it so often that it is starting to wear off on the screen :D

I want to know my final score but in the what matters is that overall I am happy with my progress so the score
is important but it will just be a piece of paper in the end !

I just want to see my certificate...for which I have worked really hard.

Yes, I find myself checking the progress tab and the forums in case there is something others know that I don't. For example, without checking on the forum I would not have known how to check my exam submissions for correct/incorrect.

I agree with @Stefan re. communication and I upvoted it.

too many times! I think i've done well and I just want my grade so that I can concentrate on the next two classes that I've decided to take.

I'm happy to wait though. I'm sure they want to get it right as they have had a couple of bugs here and there. They're still in beta after all.

Good luck with your final grade.