GUIDES TO THE UNIVERSITY

The exam timetable is organized in periods (including 1 or more sessions) that do not coincide with the periods when lessons are held.

All courses have 3 exam sessions, with the exception of foreign languages that have 5. Exam distribution includes 2 sessions held at the end of the teaching semester; the third session (the last one) is considered a supplementary session.

Lessons are suspended at mid-semester in both the first and second semester for 1st partial exams. 2nd  partial exams are held at the end of the semester of lessons. The dates of partial exams may or may not coincide with the dates fixed for general exams.Students can take exams in all sessions once the semester lessons included in their study plan have finished. For some types of exams and for some courses, there can be some limitations to access the exams.

For students enrolled in Master of Science programs the exam periods are organized as follows:  

 

Period		ISemester courses	II Semester courses
From	To
Period I
16/10/17	21/10/17	1st Partial exams	1 session 2016-2017 academic year
Period II
11/12/17(*)	21/12/17 (*)	2nd Partial exams 1 session
04/01/18	18/01/18
19/01/18 (**)	03/02/18 (**)	2nd Partial exams 1 session
Period III
19/03/18	24/03/18		1st Partial exams
Period IV
15/05/18	31/05/18		2nd Partial exams 1 session
01/06/18 (***)	23/06/18 (***)		2nd Partial exams 1 session
Period V
27/08/18	08/09/18	1 session

(*) In the period 11-21 December an exam session open to all enrolled students is scheduled for 1/2 compulsory course for degree program first year replacing the January 2018 exam session which a consequence will not be scheduled

(**) From the 2017/18 for the compulsory courses, compulsory courses to be chosen by the students, curriculum compulsory courses and for the elective courses included in A,B, C groups of the ESS MSc program, the second partial exam if written is generally scheduled in both sessions of the exam periods at the end of the exam periods.

As a consequence, for the course typologies above, a second partial exam is generally scheduled:

• with reference to the 1st semester, in the period 19 January to 3 February 2018 as an alternative to the partial exams session of the period 4 18 January 2018;
  
• with reference to the second semester, a second partial exam is generally scheduled in the period 1 to 23 June 2018 as an alternative to the partial exams session of the period 15 to 31 May 2018.

There are rules and limitations to access the second partial exam, for all details check paragraph 7.6. Exam registration procedure.

Note to the consultation of the exam calendar

• "Session" refers to both exams of the current year and the previous years;
• the third session for second semester courses will be held in  October/November 2018 period;
• the sessions for foreign languages will be held in: December/January, February, March - April, June, September 2018
• if students choose a course relating to the Integrated Master of Arts in Giurisprudenza [Law]as an elective course, they make use of the number of sessions provided for in the exam calendar of such Study Program;
• there is a reserved exam session for 1^st semester courses scheduled during the 11 to 21 December 2017 period, open only to those students who:

1. are participating in Exchange, Master CEMS, and Free-Mover Programs abroad in the second semester of the 2017-2018 academic year;
2. are incoming 1^st semester (exchange,  single courses for visiting students, and Double Degree  students staying in Bocconi from the second semester of the 1^st year to the first semester of the 2^nd year)  
3. are carrying out internships in Italy or abroad over the January - February 2018 period.

With reference to such reserved session we would like to specify that Students CANNOT sit exams for previous year’s courses which have not yet been passed, only students whose teaching activities described in points 1 and 3 will start before the end of the February exam period (3 February 2018) are admitted to the additional session.

There is NO overlapping between compulsory course exam sessions of the same year of studies and Master of Science degree program; therefore no two exams on the same day are usually scheduled except for October as the available exam days are limited. As far as electives are concerned, they may be present in more than one major. Therefore, the avoidance of timetable clashes is only guaranteed for Major compulsory courses.

The exam timetable for the October 2017 - September 2018 period is published by the end of July 2017 on the University Internet site at www.unibocconi.eu/exams.

During the year the timetable of an exam session may be changed (only to a later date or time), in which case students do not need to re-register for the exam since their registration is automatically transferred to the new timetable.

Exam dates are updated daily on the Internet site. In addition, any changes to the exam timetable can be viewed on the yoU@B student Diary.

The different types of exams are identified in the exam timetable by the following letters:

• I Partial exam
• S Written exam
• O Oral exam