Written exam, Facculty of Technology

This page contains information regarding routines for written exams at the faculty of technology.

Written examination

Booking of written examinations

The planning for written exams varries between deptartments. Please ask your education administrator about how your department plans for exams.
Places for written exams are booked by the education administrator for the course.
All written exams are anonymous. Read more about routines for anonoymous exams.
The course coordinator notifys students about the dates for the exam and re-exam during the course introduction meeting.

Carrying through with a written examination

Registration for the exam opens 30 business days before the exam date. Registration closes 9 business days before the exam date at 23:59. Registration is done through the student's Ladok page.
Late admission for an exam is first and foremost for registered students who faild to show up in time. If the present invigilators deem that there is additional room for a certain exam unregistered students might get admitted during the second admission to the exam, which happens after 45 minutes. These students will not be anonymous during the exam.
The exam location is sent to the students, the person who booked the exam, and the Course Coordinator via email approximately 1 week before the exam date. If this email is not received, it may be due to the student's mailbox being full or the email being marked as spam.
No later than 3 workdays before the exam the exam is submitted through the Salstentamen-website. Then the number of exams is printed according to how many students have registered in Ladok. If the teacher does not use this method to print their exam, the course coordinator must submit a copy of the exam to the universities central archive for archiving.

After the exam

The university uses digital archiving for written examinations, which are automatically distributed to the students. Routines for scanning exams can be found on Staff. Read more about this process on the following page:
Students need to recive their grade no later than 15 workdays after the exam. Read more about this on Reporting grades.

Changing the date for a written examination

After the examination date has been published it can be hard to change it, especially if students have started to register for it. If you want to change the date for a written exam you need to contact all students and ensure that a change of date is ok with everyone involved.

Students with special needs

Students with special need who have approeved accomodations from the coordinators for students with disabilities have the right to have also have accomodations for written exams.

Examination at a different location

Students at the Faculty of Technology need to apply for examination at a different location the following application form.

(Please note! The department for forest science uses a different application form)

Applifation form for examination at a different location

The head of department decides if an application for examination at a different location is granted. The application needs to be sent in 10 working days before the examination date. For re-exams in January and August applications are processed before the holidayperiod, around 20th June or 20th December. The recommendation is that students apply 14 days before the examination date so that they have time to participate on campus if their application is rejected.

Examination at a different location can be dine during one of the following timeframes:

The examination is done in parallel to the regular examination.
The examination is started no earlier than 3 hours before the regular exmaination, and ends no earlier then 50 minutes after the startt of the regular examiantion.
The examination is started no later than 50 minutes after the start of the regular examination.