On the day of the exam

The examination hall opens 30 minutes ahead of examination start time. Please arrive for examination well in advance and no later than 15 minutes ahead of examination start time. 

Please, checkt your room for the examination on Sudentweb 3 days prior to the exam (in "Upcoming events" / "Information"). Here you will also find your candidate number for each exam.

Law courses where support materials are allowed: no later than 50 minutes before the exam starts. The examination starts when the inspection of support materials begins.

On the day of your exam you must bring:

• Student identity card or valid ID (with photo)
• Computer
• Permitted support materials during your examniation.
• Writing tools, you can ask for rough paper after the exam has started. You are not allowed to bring your own paper to the exam.

You should also bring food and beverages.

Find a desk and get ready:

• Lay out the items you are going to use during the examination. Place items you will not be using – including coats, jackets, backpacks, bags and the like – at the specified place. Mobile phones, ear plugs/headset, smart watches and other electronic devices that will not be used during the examination must be turned off or put in airplane mode and then put away. Devices like these cannot be kept in pockets or on the desk. 
• A student identity card or valid ID (with photo) must be visible on your desk during the entire exam.
• Examination support materials if allowed at your exam.
• You may keep food and beverages on or by the desk during the entire exam. You may eat and drink whenever you want, but make sure you do not disturb other students sitting around you.
• If you want to check your notes or support material other than what is specially permitted for you exam, you must do this outside the examination hall before the examination starts.
• You can ask for rough paper after the exam has started. Only paper handed out at the exam is allowed.

Your computer must be set up for the exam as soon as possible and before any inspection of support materials.

• It is important to close/exit all programs that are running on your computer to ensure that it works as best as possible during the exam.
• Please do not use your computer for activities other than your examination after you have entered the examination hall.
• Connect to the wireless network Eduroam that will be used during the exam. Eduroam is used in most exam locations. Where necessary, you will be given information about the network in the venue.
• Start a browser (not Safe Exam Browser) and go to vurdering.uib.no. Select "Log on with Feide", set your affiliation to UiB and log on with your ordinary UiB username and password.
• Find your exam and follow the onscreen instructions to open the exam in the secure browser. You will be asked for your password (PIN code); this will be provided by the invigilator just before the exam begins.
• When the exam starts you will be given access to the exam questions, and may start writing your answers.

Attendance and ID control
You must sign in your attendance at the exam. An invigilator will come around to register you and check your ID during the first hour of the exam period. The invigilator will note your desk number for registration.

Keeping the exam location quiet
The exam location must be kept quiet until all students finish their exam. Remember that exams of various lengths may be taking place in the same venue. Students who are granted special arrangements in the form of extended time to take the exam, or who have been granted extra time due to technical problems during the examination, are also entitled to peace and quiet the entire time allotted for the exam. Show consideration for your fellow students.

Breaks and leaving the exam location
You are not permitted to take a break away from your seat until 30 minutes after the exam has started. You cannot withdraw or submit, until one hour after the exam started. You must hide or cover your answers and any drafts when you leave your seat. When one hour of the exam time has passed, you may contact an invigilator to get some air.

Questions about the exam
You may contact the examiner with academic responsibility if something is unclear in the examination question paper. Such contact is facilitated by the invigilator.
Law subjects: You can contact the student representative in the venue if something is unclear in the examination question paper. 

If you experience technical issues during school exams
In case of technical problems during a digital exam, contact an invigilator immediately. Contact an invigilator again if your problem reoccurs.

Cheating
Illegal examination support materials (like mobile phone or papers) found at your desk or similar can raise suspicion of cheating. Invigilators will report all suspicions to your faculty who are responsible for further proceedings. Read more about Academic integrity and Cheating.

Submission of exam paper
When you are ready to submit your answers, please contact an invigilator. Submitting and registering your delivery is done while you are seated at your desk, see more information under paragraph "6. Submitting".

Interruption of examination
If something should causes a school exam to be interrupted for more than one hour, the exam will be cancelled. Your faculty will plan for a new exam as soon as possible. 

• With school exams your answers must be written in the digital exam system at vurdering.uib.no.
• If you have acceess to addtional resoures like formulas, Lovdata or articles during your exam, you will find these on the bottom of your screen. You can open them in a new window. Please, contact an ivigilator if you need help to find a window you have opened or to show two windows on your screen at the same time. 
• After the exam has started, you can ask an invigilator for sheets of rough paper if you need some. Use your own writing tools. Use only papers handed out at the exam, other paper like notebooks or similar is not allowed. Rough papers cannot be submitted as part of your exam. 
• You can write on your answer paper until the exam time runs out.

Hand-drawn attachments

On some exams it will be possible to attach hand-drawn sketches/illustrations or calculations to your digital exam answer. You can ask your lecturer if hand drawing paper will be available at your exam. 

During the exam: Ask an invigilator for hand drawing paper if you need some for your exam. Find the exam question code available under the question input field and enter the numeric code above the shading field in each new drawing paper you use. The exam question code is unique for each question per student and will not be available after submission. Remember to also enter the question number which you are answering. Find your candidate number on the upper left corner of the screen before submission.

After the exam: After the exam end time, you have 15 minutes where you must shade the exam question code in the boxes under each digit in the question code. Make sure to fill in all requested information at the top of each of you pages. You must shade the dorrect code to ensure the handwritten papers are added correctly to your exam paper.

You yourself are responsible for marking your illustrations correctly so that the answers are ready for machine reading. See instructions for hand-written attachments.

• You are personally responsible for submitting your answers electronically. When the exam time has expired, your answer is automatically locked for editing, and you will be directed to the submission page. You must push the submission button and also register your submission with an invigilator before you leave the exam location; failure to do so may be treated as cheating or attempted cheating.
• When you have finished your exam, the sheets are to be submitted together, in the order they will be added to your answer paper, to the invigilator who registers your submission. Make sure the invigilator registers the correct number of sheets you submit. The sheets are normally scanned the day after the exam and are uploaded in the answer paper to the exam question to which they belong. 
• Your exam cannot be reopened after you have submitted, even when the exam time has not run out.
• As a main rule, your answer paper is accessible in the exam system after the exam under the 'Archive' tab. Any paper submissions will also be accessible here after they have been uploaded.

Withdrawing during the exam
You can withdraw from an examination, at the earliest, one hour after the examination has started. Contact an invigilator who will help you withdraw from the test in the exam system. If you withdraw from your exam, you must not submit your answers. Withdrawal during an examination will be treated as an examination attempt.

Illness during the exam
You can also withdraw from the exam should you fall ill during the examination and be unable to complete it. Contact an invigilator who will help you withdraw from the test in the exam system. In order for an absence caused by illness to be registered as a legitimate absence, the doctor's note must identify the illness that arose during the examination, state the date of the examination and be submitted within two weeks after the exam.

See information in webpage Illness and examinations on where and how to submit the doctor’s note.