Examinations of the academic year
Type of programme: University tertiary education
Examinations:
2 or 3 weeks between beginning of January and mid-February (no teaching activity)
About 1 month between May and mid-July depending on whether the university has its extraordinary examinations in July or in September (no teaching activity)
Extraordinary examinations:
3 weeks between the second week of June and the second week of July (in some universities the first two weeks of September 2015)
Type of programme: non-university tertiary education:
There are generally three periods of examinations: before Christmas holidays, before Easter holidays and before summer holidays. Schools are free to fix examination dates within those periods.