Examinations of the academic year

Institutions are free to fix examination dates.

(1^stsemester)

3-4 weeks in January

Last week of May until the end of the last week of June or the 1st week of July

From about 17 August until the end of the third week of September.

Curricular activities leading to an academic qualification in the first or second cycle are spread over the first two four-month terms in the academic year (with the exception of certain forms of assessment or professional integration activity). Each of these first two terms involves at least 12 weeks of activity and may not exceed four months. A period of assessment occurs at the end of each term.

The third term includes assessment periods (as well as professional integration or personal project activity).

Institutional autonomy.

The universities fix the dates of examinations autonomously, but generally the period of examinations are:

Fall Semester: typically December and two-three weeks in January

Spring Semester: Mid and end of May and two-three weeks in June

Re-examinations are mainly placed in August before the start of a new academic year.

Occur generally between 2 January and 20 January.

Spring semester exams take place in June 2015 and last for three weeks.

Institutions are autonomous. Examinations generally take place between 30 April and 31 May.

12 January - 8 February 2015, 8 June - 5 July 2015

Semester I

2-6 February 2015

Semester II

15-26 June 2015

Type of programme: University of Malta:

Semester I

2 February - 27 March 2015

Semester II

30 May - 30 June 2015

The teaching department, teachers and students are entirely free to fix examination dates jointly. Normally there are two examinations periods:

• 1st: between the end of December and the end of February;

• 2nd: between the beginning of June and the end of July.

The examination dates are determined at institutional level. Teachers and students are free to fix the dates for examinations within the examination sessions established by institutions. Examination sessions are generally organised as follows:

mid-January - mid-February beginning of June - end of June beginning of September - mid-September (for those students who failed in previous sessions)