Exams
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The progression requirement for 1st year bachelor students who started autumn 2019, will be reduced from 30 ECTS to 15 ECTS. For these students, the requirement to start 2nd year will now be 15 ECTS credits. This is due to statistics and mathematics courses being moved to August.
Questions related to digital home exams for full-time students
The new exam schedule released on Friday 27 March has led to a number of reactions and questions from our students. Most of the inquiries are concerning the exams that were moved to August 2020.
BI’s management recognizes that the changes in the exam schedule has created a difficult situation for some of our students. In light of this, BI’s management team will during the coming week consider the students’ demands, and look at possibilities to see if we may are able to accommodate some of them. The student organisation, BISO, will be included in this work to represent the student’s interests.
BI asks for your patience and understanding in a situation that is difficult for all of us. The corona outbreak has made it impossible to arrange the Spring semester's exams as originally scheduled, resulting in BI having to convert all school exams to digital home examinations.
BI will reach a conclusion before Easter.
New examination schedule
- Bachelor 1st year spring 2020 (pdf)
- Bachelor 2nd year mandatory courses spring 2020 (pdf)
- Bachelor 2nd and 3rd year electives spring 2020 (pdf)
- Bachelor 3rd year madatory courses spring 2020 (pdf)
- Bachelor re-sit exams spring 2020 (pdf)
- Master of Science spring 2020 (pdf)
- Individual courses and Bachelor of Management programmes spring 2020 (pdf)
- Executive Master of Management spring 2020 (pdf)
What are the most important changes?
- Important information concerning exams will be provided in the course rooms on itslearning.
- BI strongly recommends that all students maintain their study progression and complete their exams.
- All campus exams in May and June will be changed to digital home exams. Most exam dates are the same as in the original plan.
- Please note that it may take some time before “My exams” in the Student Portal is updated with the new time and date. The new exam plan applies.
- The duration has been changed for some exams. Time has been extended for some, and reduced for others. This is to ensure learning outcomes are tested in the best possible way.
- All exams – except exams in mathematics and statistics – will take place in the period between 24 April and 30 June. Exams in mathematics and statistics will take place between 5 august and 14 August and will be held on campus.
- The new deadline for delivering your master’s thesis is 1 September.
- EMBA and EMME students have separate exam plans.
- International students who have returned to their home countries in other time zones should prepare for exams at inconvenient local times.
Q&A
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No, there will not be another round of registration and deregistration.
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- All submissions will be made through BIs digital exam system Digiex.
- All exam questions must be downloaded from Digiex, and all assignments must be uploaded to Digiex. See details here.
- All assignments must be in the format .pdf. Additional attachments will be available for some assignments. Some exams may require that students upload images as part of the assignment. See details here.
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Multiple choice exams must be answered in Word (or Excel) and uploaded to Digiex in the .pdf format in the same manner as normal Digiex hand-ins.
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Oral exams will mainly be carried out using Zoom. Faculty will let you know how this should be done for each specific exam.
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If you have been granted a time extension this also applies to home exams.
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BI has decided to maintain letter grades (A-F) where the course description sets this grade scale. This will not be changed to pass/not pass unless the government mandates such a change.
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For the 9 campus mid-terms between now and 23 April, all relevant students have receive a text message (SMS) from BI with information about how the exam will be carried out. Digital home mid-terms between now and 23 April will be not be changed in any way and will be carried out according to the exam plan.
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Teaching and exams will be carried out digitally, but we encourage students to follow the travel advice from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health and avoid travel.
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Some of you have left Norway and are now taking the exams from abroad in a different time zone. We kindly ask for your understanding during these challenging times; BI is unfortunately not able to accommodate taking exams or submitting papers for different time zones. The deadlines are absolute, and it is important that you pay attention to the local time in Norway (CET) to ensure that you are able to complete your semester at BI.
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- BI will publish any changes in rules for absence pertaining to the corona virus (COVID-19) on 20 April at the latest.
- BI strongly advises all students to complete their exams in order to maintain study progression despite the extraordinary situation. If you are unable to complete your exam, you must document the reason for this.
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- BI will publish any changes in rules for absence pertaining to the corona virus (COVID-19) on 20 April at the latest.
- BI will follow government advice and regulations about how higher education institutions should handle illness and absence for students unable to complete their exams. This includes student who care for children between 0-12 years of age, and people called to serve in the Home Guard (Heimevernet).
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No, video surveillance is not allowed according to GDPR regulations.
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For questions concerning your exam, log into the Student Portal and contact BI through the contact form (Contact us) and select the topic EXAM.
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- All exams are individual unless students are explicitly informed otherwise. Collaboration with other students will be considered cheating.
- All submissions will be automatically checked for plagiarism. Click here for information on how to write your assignment and proper referencing technique.
- § 5-2 (8) of BI’s Academic Regulations states that “Candidates may be called in for an oral hearing as a verification/control of the written assignments without this being specified in the course description. Such controls are not part of the grading unless specified in the course description.”
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Due to the corona situation, BI’s board has passed temporary regulations concerning absence deadlines for grading.