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Assessment and grading

In the Italian graduate and post graduate system, credits are awarded upon passing exams. Oral and/or written tests are foreseen at the end of each course.

Italian students are given quite a lot of freedom in organizing their studies and they are responsible for their own progress. In order to take examinations, students are expected to study on their own; nevertheless many courses foresee group projects that are also evaluated. 

The Faculty engages Junior tutors to support students in their studies. They organize group meetings every week or fortnight; they are also available for individual help.

All degree courses at the Faculty of Statistics are organized in three trimestres and examinations for each module may be written or/and oral. They are usually foreseen four times a year: in December/January, April, June/July and September. For more details, please check the up to date academic calendar. 

No minimun amount of credits is set for each trimestre.

The grading scale is out of 30 and a grade of 18/30 or more is required to pass an exam and receive full credit for it.  Some courses require a final test and are associated to a certain number of credits, but do not assign a final grade; they are referred to as “Idoneità”. 

Exchange students are expected to undergo the same process of examination as Italian students. If they wish, they may agree with the local teachers on taking their final tests in English and not in Italian. 

All grades assigned at the Faculty of Statistics may be converted in the general European ECTS grading scale. That is applied according to specific tables, which vary depending on the course the exchange student is attending. 

Download the ECTS grading scale for 2009.

Please note that one (1) credit awarded by the University of Padova equals to one (1) ECTS credit. 

ECTS stands for European Credit Transfer System, developed by the European Commission in order to provide common procedures to guarantee academic recognition of studies abroad. 

In the ECTS scheme, 60 credits represent the workload of an academic year.  

In Italy, one credit comprises a comprehensive workload of 25 hours; within that standard workload, 7 hours are dedicated to lectures in class and 18 hours are meant for individual learning.