Assessment and Exams ?
 | The grade of your supplementary exam was
released only today and the special exam is tomorrow. Can you sit the special
exam? |
| 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. |
| In the regular examination period you sat the exam of a curricular unit and you failed. Are you automatically registered for the supplementary exam or do you have to register for it? |
| 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”. |
| Can a Professor make changes to the assessment methods of a curricular unit in the middle of the academic semester? |
| 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. | |
| Does an Integrated Master’s Degree Student have access to the special examination period in order to complete the 1st Cycle? |
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. |
| Does the UC provide non-face to face courses? |
| Yes, the UC provides distance learning courses. | |
 | For further information check the website https://pages.uc.pt/en/ucd/ |
| Can you sit improvement exams in the special examination period? |
| No, you cannot. The special examination period is not intended for improvement exams. |
| When can you sit these 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. |
| Your grade concerning continuous assessment of a curricular unit was 10 and in the supplementary examination period you obtained a 12. However, at InforEstudante only the grade of the continuous assessment is shown and the final assessment shows the status “Failed”. |
| 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”. |
| If a student fails a curricular unit due to lack of attendance, has he/she the right to try to complete the curricular unit by means of exam in the Regular or the Supplementary Examination Period? |
| 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. |
| Can you accelerate your degree at the UC ? |
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) |
| You have detected at InforEstudante that the assessment concerning a curricular unit does not correspond to the information the Professor provided to you. How can this situation be corrected? |
| 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. |
| When you checked InforEstudante, you have verified that the grade of a curricular unit is marked “orange” with the information that this colour means that the course grade roster has not been validated yet by the services. When will this validation be carried out? |
| 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. |
| Taking into account that the registration deadline has been exceeded and you continue unable to register because the results of the previous year are not yet validated, do you have to pay an extra fee? |
| 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. |
