The information in this chapter refers to exams held in person.
All exams scheduled in the 2020/2021 a.y. were held online according to specific guidelines for oral and written exams, summarized in the documents sent to students and available here as an example (Written exams - Oral exams).
The online mode has been adopted also for exams scheduled in the 26 August - 7 September 2021 exam session. Detailed communications related to the methods that will be adopted for holding exams from October 2021 exams session onwards will be provided to students directly through the yoU@B Student Diary.
It is essential for students to have an adequate computer setup for taking exams (See chapter 1.7.1 Student's personal laptop computer).
The rules and methods already in force and described in this chapter for registering for exams remain unchanged and must be complied with.
The exam timetable is scheduled in periods that do not coincide with lectures. Each exam period consists of one or more sessions.
The exam timetable allocates 4 exam sessions for all courses; 2 of them are scheduled after the teaching semester, the third and fourth sessions are considered as supplementary sessions. For foreign language courses and Computer Science/Computer Skills, 5 exam sessions are scheduled.
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. Partial exam dates may or may not coincide with those fixed for general exams.
Students can generally take exams in all sessions as long as they meet the attendance requirements (semester course lectures in the study plan must be finished). For some types of exams and some courses, there may be some limitations to access the exams.
The exam periods and exam sessions (reference period: October 2020 - September 2021) are scheduled as follows.
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Period
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1st semester Courses
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2nd semester Courses
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From
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To
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Period I
16/10/20
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27/10/20
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1st Partial exams
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Period II
09/12/20 (*)
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22/12/20 (*)
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2nd Partial exams
1 session
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07/01/21
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19/01/21
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20/01/21 (**)
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03/02/21(**)
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2nd Partial exams
1 session
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1 session 2019-2020 academic year
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Period III
15/03/21
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23/03/21
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1st Partial exams
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Period IV
12/05/21
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31/05/21
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2nd Partial exams
1 session
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01/06/21
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22/06/21 (**)
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2nd Partial exams
1 session
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23/06/21
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13/07/21
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1 session
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Period V
26/08/21
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07/09/21
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1 session
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1 session
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(*) In the period 09-22 December 2020 an exam session open to all enrolled students is scheduled for 1/2 compulsory courses per program/year of studies. This replaces the January - first period - 2021 exam session which, as a consequence, will not be scheduled.
(**) For the compulsory courses, compulsory courses chosen by the students and curriculum compulsory courses, the second partial exam, if written, is scheduled in both sessions of the exam periods scheduled at the end of the teaching period. As a consequence, for the course typologies above, a second partial exam is scheduled:
- with reference to the first semester, in the period 20 January to 3 February 2021 as an alternative to the one scheduled in the period 7 to 19 January 2021;
- with reference to the second semester, in the period 1 to 22 June 2021 as an alternative to the one scheduled in the period 12 to 31 May 2021.
There are rules and limitations to access the second partial exam. For all details, see paragraph 7.5. Exam Registration Procedure.
Notes on the exam calendar
- "session" refers to both exams of the current academic year and the previous years;
- the fourth exam session for 2nd semester courses will be held in January - second period - 2022;
- exam sessions for foreign language courses are scheduled for: October 2020; January - second period, June, July and August/September 2021;
- 5 exam sessions for Computer Science/Computer Skills are scheduled as follows: October, January - second period; May, June; August/September.
- A reserved exam session has been scheduled in December (09-22 December 2020), for 1st semester courses, open only to students who:
- are participating in: Exchange and Free Mover programs abroad in the 2ndsemester 2020/2021 academic year;
- are Incoming 1st semester (Exchange and single courses for visiting students);
- are participating in curricular internships (including additional internships) abroad or in Italy in the January/February 2021 period.
Only those students whose teaching activities described in points 1 and 3 start before the January - second period ends (3 February 2021) can participate. With reference to this reserved exam session please note that students CANNOT sit exams for previous year's courses which have not been passed.
There is NO overlapping between compulsory course exam sessions of the same year and Bachelor of Science program; therefore no 2 exams on the same day are usually scheduled, except for December, January - second period (20 January - 3 February 2021) and August/September exam periods, as the available days for exams are limited.
Such overlapping rules refer ONLY to compulsory courses of the year in which the student is enrolled and do not refer to previous years' exams which have not been passed yet and/or to elective courses. With reference to the elective courses we tend, when possible, to guarantee the non-overlapping between courses referring to the same subject area.
