Exams are designed to test the knowledge and skills you acquired with a specific course unit and they can be either written (multiple-choice questions, open questions, exercises) or oral, or both (in this case the exam is divided into multiple parts).

In the Syllabus of each teaching unit, you can find information about the examination methods and the assessment criteria. Check the complete list of course units for each programme.

Please visit the student's web agenda of the University of Padova to get information about examinations timetables.

Timetables are liable to changes: please check exam details immediately prior to your examination date.

To sit an exam you will have to sign up for it. In order to sit the exam besides having it in your Study Plan, you must be up to date with your tuition fees’ payments. Check the instructions on how to register for exams. 

In the section ‘Exams Results’ of your Uniweb page you will find the results of your exams. We invite you to read carefully the Regulations of your degree programme for further information concerning rules and modality for academic examinations.

If you are not satisfied with your exam result, you have the possibility to reject it within 7 days after its publication on Uniweb, or it will be permanently recorded in your Transcript of Records. In case you accept the grade, you do not need to take further steps, the grade will be automatically recorded after 7 days. Please note that grades below 18/30 are not recorded in any case. Please be aware that once you refuse the grade, you will not be able to reclaim it afterwards. Here you can find the instruction for grade refusal.

If you reject the grade or fail an exam, you can retake it in another session, but do not forget to sign up for it! Remember that only the last obtained result will be considered, and not the best one!

COMMUNICATION FOR GRADUATING STUDENTS CONCERNING EXAMINATIONS

Lecturers record grades at the end of 7 days after publication. Only for special requirements, such as graduation, scholarship or transfer deadlines, it is necessary to contact the lecturer in order to obtain an earlier registration. By doing so, lecturers will be able to correct the test and publish the grade in a timely manner. Uniweb allows partial publications and recordings, even for only one student or one student at a time, and even before 7 days post-publication of results, but only in exceptional and documentable cases.

Please note that the date of the actual day of the examination is the authentic date for the recording of a result in the career. Therefore, if a student were to sit an exam on 9 September and the deadline for graduating in October was 9 September, that date (i.e. 09/09) would in any case be the date that would appear in her or his on-line booklet, thus in time with the deadline.