GUIDES TO THE UNIVERSITY

The exam timetable is scheduled in periods (including 1 or more sessions) that do not coincide with the periods when lectures 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.

Lectures 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 lectures included in their study plan have finished. For some types of exams and for some courses, there may be some limitations to access the exams.

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

 

Period		1st Semester courses	2nd Semester courses
From	To
Period I
15/10/18	20/10/18	1st Partial exams	1 session 2017-2018 academic year
Period II
10/12/18(*)	20/12/18 (*)	2nd Partial exams 1 session
04/01/19	17/01/19
18/01/19 (**)	02/02/19 (**)	2nd Partial exams 1 session
Period III
18/03/19	23/03/19		1st Partial exams
Period IV
15/05/19	31/05/19		2nd Partial exams 1 session
01/06/19 (***)	22/06/19 (***)		2nd Partial exams 1 session
Period V
28/08/19	10/09/19	1 session

(*) In the period 10-20 December 2018 an exam session open to all enrolled students is scheduled for 1-2 compulsory courses per degree program, first year. This replace the January 2019 exam session which a consequence will not be scheduled.

(**) For the compulsory courses and 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 18 January to 2 February 2019 as an alternative to the partial exams session of the period 4 - 17 January 2019;
  
• with reference to the second semester, a second partial exam is generally scheduled in the period 1 to 22 June 2019 as an alternative to the partial exams session of the period 15 to 31 May 2019.

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

Notes on consulting of the exam calendar

• "Session" refers to both exams of the current year and the previous years;
• the third session for 2nd semester courses will be held in  October 2019 period;
• the sessions for foreign languages will be held in: December/January, February, March - April, June, August/September
• 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 10 to 20 December 2018 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 2018-2019 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 2019 period.

Only students whose teaching activities described in points 1 and 3 will start before the end of the February exam period (2 February 2019) are admitted to the additional session. With reference to this reserved session, we would like to specify that students CANNOT sit exams for previous year courses which have not yet been passed.

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 are usually scheduled on the same day except for October and December 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 2018 - September 2019 period is published by the end of July 2017 on the University website at www.unibocconi.eu/exams.

The timetable of an exam session may be changed during the year (only to a later date or time). In that 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 website. 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:

• PI Partial exam
• S Written exam
• O Oral exam