Exams
In the spring semester 2020, all exams at BI will be digital home examinations and will be conducted in the period from 24 April - 30 June.
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If you have an exam in statistics and/or mathematics, please visit this page for important information regarding your new exam plan.
New examination schedule
- Bachelor 1st year spring 2020 (pdf) Updated 17 April 2020
- Bachelor 2nd year mandatory courses spring 2020 (pdf) Updated 7 May 2020
- Bachelor 2nd and 3rd year electives spring 2020 (pdf) Updated 17 April 2020
- Bachelor 3rd year mandatory courses spring 2020 (pdf) Updated 4 April 2020
- Bachelor re-sit exams spring 2020 (pdf) Updated 17 April 2020
- Master of Science spring 2020 (pdf) Updated 2 April 2020
- Individual courses and Bachelor of Management programmes spring 2020 (pdf) Updated 4 April 2020
- Executive Master of Management spring 2020 (pdf) Updated 24 April 2020
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 school exams spring semester 2020 will be changed to digital home exams and take place between 24 April and 30 June. 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.
- 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.
If you have an exam in statistics and/or mathematics, please visit this page for important information regarding your new exam plan.
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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.
If you have an exam in statistics and/or mathematics, please visit this page for important information regarding your new exam plan.
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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 introduces self-certification as documentation for illness/absence on exam.
BI strongly advises all students to complete their exams in order to maintain study progression despite the extraordinary situation. If you are ill, or have another valid reason for not taking your exam, a medical certificate will no longer be required to document you absence.This applies to both absence related to the corona situation, and absence due to illness for other reasons, such as care for children, quarantined or socially critical tasks such as work in health care or home protection.
BI still requires you to submit the form in order to get a valid absence, but you do not need to attach a medical certificate.
You still need to submit the form within three - 3 - business days after the exam day to be approved absence.
You don't need to attach a medical certificate, but attach a document where you state that you are ill (or other reason), and the exam title and date.
With an approved reason for absence you do not use an examination attempt.
Do you care for children, and this means you cannot sit for your exam?
Then you must attach documentation that you have children under 12 years of age. This may be done by a birth certificate and / or a residence certificate.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.
If you have an exam in statistics and/or mathematics, please visit this page for important information regarding your new exam plan.
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- 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).
- Please submit this form and attach documentation that you have children under 12 years of age. This may be done by a birth certificate and / or a residence certificate.
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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.