Exams

In accordance with Article no. 106 of the Academic Regulation of the UC (RAUC), the absences that may be eligible under the students Status/Special rights are justified.

• The justification of the students’ absences from classes and exams concern the Faculty or Department that is responsible for the curricular unit.
• Therefore, the absences must be justified to the Professor (or Professors) responsible for delivering the curricular unit or to the Academic Services of that Organisational Unit in accordance with potential specific rules or regulations established by the Faculty.

• The National Defence Day aims to raise students’ awareness of the National Defence theme and disseminate the role of the Portuguese Armed Forces. Attending this event is a military duty that covers all 18 year old Portuguese citizens.
• The summoned student can request the postponement of his/her attendance due to several reasons, including the accomplishment of an exam at an officially recognised education institution, on the same day or on the two immediately subsequent days.

For the postponement to be granted to you, you must submit a request according to what is established at the following link:

• Postponement Request

Usually it is necessary to attach a declaration issued by the Faculty or Department in which you sat the exam in order to attest and justify that postponement.

• For further information check the website of the Balcão Único da Defesa (BUD), of the Ministry of National Defence ».

No. Concerning this situation, it is possible to request, in the subsequent academic year, that the special examination period is brought forward to the extraordinary examination period of October or March, provided that it is a re-registration curricular unit (that is, a curricular unit for which you have been registered in a previous academic year).

Yes. Being a Student Finalist, you may use the extraordinary examination period to request an early special examination period of that academic year, but only on condition that you have already attended the curricular unit whose early assessment you are going to carry out.

The possibility of sitting an early exam is an added value to the student, which was created to prevent him/her from being obliged to wait for the assessment until the end of the semester or academic year only because of one curricular unit that the student has already attended. Thus, he/she may complete his/her course earlier and begin his/her life’s new phase.

An early assessment does not exempt the student from paying the tuition fee, except for the completion situation referred to in no. 2 of article no. 211 of the Academic Regulation (RAUC):

• Regarding the Master’s Degree, if the dissertation or final work defence takes place until the end of February, due to an early assessment, and the Student completes the course, the conclusion is deemed to have taken place in the first semester. Therefore, the student becomes exempt from paying the instalments of the 2nd semester.

No, you cannot. When the student requests the early examination period, he/she loses definitely the possibility of using the special examination period (usually it is in July or September), even if he/she needs it.

Yes, you can. Provided that you did not miss or quit the exam whose results were released today. If the decision to sit an exam depends on the previous grades obtained, these grades must have been released with a minimum of two working days prior to the day of the special exam, which naturally does not happen if the student missed or quit the exam.

Please contact the assistance services (student assistance office) of your Faculty/Department, if that information is not available at InforEstudante in the menu “My Courses” » “Assessment Registration”.

The assessment process and criteria will be provided to the students at the beginning of the classes’ period of each curricular unit and they must be included in a written document made available for the students and contain all the assessments of the academic year, including the special examination period.

Yes, he/she does. The Integrated Master’s Degree Students have access to the special examination period if in the academic year to which this period refers they are registered for curricular units that enable them to complete the 1st Cycle or the Master’s Degree they are attending.

However, being a Student Finalist of the 1st Cycle, in the special examination period you can only sit exams of curricular units concerning that 1st Cycle.

Yes, the UC provides distance learning courses.

For further information check the website www.uc.pt/en/ucd/

No, you cannot. The special examination period is not intended for improvement exams.

The UC allows the students to improve their grades concerning any completed curricular unit at any time of their academic pathway by means of a new registration for that curricular unit. The ECTS credits concerning those curricular units are included in the number of reregistration ECTS credits established in each academic year.

For example: in an academic year registration of [60 new ECTS credits + 24 reregistration ECTS credits], a student can register for 60 ECTS credits concerning new curricular units and reregister for 2 curricular units of 6 ECTS credits in each semester in order to improve the grade.

This situation stems from the fact that the results concerning the regular and the supplementary examination period are not yet validated. Therefore, the Information Technology System assumes “Failed” concerning the final assessment. You can verify that the status of the curricular unit is “Not valid”.

The Professor that delivers the curricular unit establishes at the beginning of the classes period the assessment process and criteria which must be made available to the Students.

Yes, you can. If you have a very high academic performance in a certain academic year, then in the subsequent year you may register for extra new ECTS credits that may enable you to complete more curricular units and finish your degree earlier.

Taking into consideration the successful academic performance, you may request to exceed the limit of the ECTS credits, established for the course, in the subsequent academic year registration, usually from 60 ECTS credits to 84 ECTS new credits (first time registration curricular units).

The Professor is responsible for the release of the results/grades. Therefore, you are advised to contact him/her. Please note that the valid grade is only the one that is at InforEstudante.

In accordance with what is established, the results are validated only when the Professors that deliver the curricular units and the academic services of the Faculty send to the Academic Management Services the grade rosters duly signed. After being received, the grade rosters are accepted, usually within the 3 subsequent working days.

If the validation of the results takes place beyond the deadline established for the registration, the Students receive a “reminder” indicating the deadline in which they have to formalise their registration without being subject to the payment of any extra fee.