Examinations

Registrations

• You register for your exams at the StudentWeb.
• The deadlines for registering for your exams are 1 February (spring semester) and 1 September (autumn semester).
• It is you own responsibility not to register for exams that are held on the same day.

Examination overview

• The time and date for your written exams are published in the examination overview. Choose faculty and check the table. 
• Read carefully the information you are obliged to know and the instructions to the candidates.
• Information on the various locations where UiB hold written exams is available here.
• If the course you are attending has an oral exam or semester paper, you will find information about your exam on MySpace.

Dictionary / Support Material

• The faculty determines if you are allowed to bring support material to the exam. If any support material is permitted, this is determined in the course description.
• You may bring pre-approved dictionaries to the exam. The dictionary can not be lexical (i.e. contain definitions or facts), and must be approved before the examination.
• Dictionaries for approval must be handed in at the Information Center in Vektertorget (Christies gt 13), no later than one week before the day of the exam.
• You may NOT bring cellphones, mp3-players or other electronical equipment that are not permitted support material to the examination desk.

Academic integrity

• Please read carefully the instructions regarding use of sources and plagiarism at UiB. The academic way of conduct may differ from what you are used to at your home university.
• The University of Bergen has made a brochure about cheating and adacemic integrity which you can download from these webpages concerning academic integrity.

Results

• The results of your exams will be published at the Studentweb three weeks after the examination was held.
• You may ask for an explanation of grade within one week after the grade was announced. If so, please contact the Information Centre.
• If you wish to appeal about a grade, you may do so within three weeks after the grade was announced, or three weeks after you received an explanation of grade.
• The reassessment of examination grade may take six to eight weeks. The result may be the same as, better or poorer than the original grade.