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EXAMINATION GUIDELINES
■ General examination rules
- It is compulsory to schedule one exam in each official examination session.
-The exams of first-semester courses ending in December and second-semester courses
ending in May must be held in the extraordinary exam sessions of December and May
respectively.
- Each Professor offering a modular course also has to offer an end-of-module test for
each single module.
■ Examination regulations in the course description.
Each professor must clearly explain his/her examination regulations in the course description. In
particular s/he must clarify:
- whether there is only one final exam or also intermediate partial exams;
- whether homework, assignments, or projects are counted in the final exam mark;
- the weighting of each single part in the overall final mark;
- any examination formalities which may differ depending on students attending or not
attending the course, so as to provide equal treatment in both cases.
■ Exams for attending and non-attending students
- If intermediate tests are to be taken by attending students, the professor will have to
prepare a final examination covering the entire program for students who do not attend.
This must account for 100% of the final mark.
■ Exams for courses that are in both the old program and the new program.
- Courses belonging to the old didactic regulations (old program) will no longer be
offered. However, students will still have the right to sit the corresponding exams. Only
for those courses belonging to the old program which have been declared equivalent to
courses belonging to the new didactic regulations by the Faculty Council, students will be
allowed to attend the take the exam of the equivalent new course. If the equivalence has
been declared, the following rules apply:
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- exams of the courses belonging to the old program must be offered as part of
the exams for the students of the new BA/MA programs
- the different number of credit points (CPs) assigned to corresponding courses
must be taken into account.
For example: The “Accounting A” course (cl. 17 old academic regulations) is worth 5 CPs.
The same course is worth 8 CPs within the Bachelor in Economics and Management (L18 new didactic regulations). The exam for students of the old program will therefore
have to cover a reduced syllabus. Should students of both the new and the old programs
enroll for the exams, professors will have to prepare different examination papers (old
and new didactic regulations).
- In the case of integrated courses offered in the new programs whose teaching modules
have been declared equivalent to courses of the old programs in terms of contents, the
end-of-module tests must be held during the official examination session as planned in
the academic calendar. For students of the old program, the above-mentioned partial
exams are full exams and must therefore be offered in the official examination sessions.
■ End-of-module tests for modular courses
-the marks obtained in tests held at the end of single teaching modules cannot be
officially recorded nor can they lead to an independent mark.
- the test planned for the end of the second module must be held during the official
examination session, together with the final exam concerning the whole integrated
course.
- In the event that the modules are held in different languages, the students will have to
take each module’s test in the official language in which the module was taught.
The final exam mark of an integrated course (which has to be held within the official exam
session established by the academic calendar) will be the result of the mark of the first module
exam and the mark of the second module exam.
For the purposes of calculating the final mark, the weighting of each module must take into
account the number of CPs for each module.
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Enrolment procedure for modular course exams
Students NEED to enroll:
1) If they intend to take the exam of an integrated course comprising M1 and M2. In this
case, they must follow the standard on-line enrolment procedure.
2) If they intend to take one end-of-module test scheduled within an official exam session.
3) If they intend to take one of the two end-of-module tests (i.e. either M1 or M2)
scheduled within an official exam session and they have already passed the other end-ofmodule test.
Every time students enroll for an exam, even if only to take and end-of-module test, this will
count as one attempt.
If the end-of-module test for either M1 or M2 is passed but the overall final mark cannot yet be
recorded, the result of the exam will have to be filed as NOT PASSED in the official record. The
professor will nonetheless consider the result of the end-of-module test valid for the whole
academic year.
Students DO NOT NEED to enroll:
1) If they intend to take the end-of-module test for M1 in a session in which M2 is not
offered (and would not therefore have the possibility of having the overall final mark
filed).
2) If they intend to take only the end-of-module test for M1 within the December and
January/February exam session, which is for some students the third exam session for
the previous academic year and for other students the first end-of-module test for the
new academic year.
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■ Documentation of end-of-module tests and mid-term exams.
All written documentation concerning tests held at the end of each module and/or mid-term
exams must:
- Be kept by the professors in charge until the joint evaluation by the exam commission
takes place during the official examination session, as planned in the academic calendar.
- Be handed in to the Secretariat of the Faculty of Economics and Management after the
exam has taken place in the official examination session. It is the responsibility of each
professor to hand in the complete documentation of each student’s exam in a separate
folder/packet.
- Show the date in which the test was held, as each end-of-module test/mid-term test is
valid only for the academic year in which it takes place.
■ Examination commissions for integrated courses
- The professors in charge of the single modules are automatically members of the
examination commission, which is appointed by the Dean.
- In the case of integrated courses offered in the new programs whose modules can be
considered equivalent to courses of the old programs in terms of contents, the
examination commission will be the same for students of the old program and students
of the new program.
■ Exam sessions starting from academic year 2014-2015
1st semester:
1st session: December 2014 or January/February 2015
2nd session: May or June/July 2015
3rd session: September 2015
2nd semester:
1st session: May or June/July 2015
2nd session: September 2015
3rd session: December 2015 or January/February 2016
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Therefore, for the purposes of counting the maximum number of attempts allowed (two in a
single academic year), the third exam session for courses held during the second semester of
2014-2015 will be considered as belonging to academic year 2014-2015, even if it takes place in
2015-2016. This also applies to integrated courses whose M2 is offered during the summer
semester.
■ Sanctions to be imposed in the event of cheating
- Students caught cheating will not be allowed to sit the same exam for twelve months
(until the end of the corresponding exam session of the following year), neither at the
UNIBZ nor at any other university; all end-of-module tests (if any) related to the exam
for which the attempt of cheating took place will be declared invalid for the whole
academic year.
- They will not be allowed to enroll for any other exam in the following examination
session.
- It is the examination commission that imposes sanctions (if any).
- The student can lodge an appeal against the examination commission’s decision by
addressing the commission itself or by lodging an administrative hierarchical appeal
with the Rector within 30 days of notification of the sanction.