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- Academic year: the period during which university courses are taught and exams can be taken. It begins in October and ends in September of the following year. It is divided into two semesters
- Appello: an “appello” is the date in which you can take an exam. You need to log in to your personal MyUnito page with your credentials in order to register for an exam. The dates of the various exams are grouped in specific times of year, called exam sessions. The main exam sessions are usually held in January/February, June/July and September, even though some departments have a slightly different academic calendar and have exam sessions in March, April, May or November as well. For further information, please refer to the academic calendar of your own department
- Apply@UniTo: application platform for evaluation of foreign degrees
- Application: submission of study documents on a platform dedicated to the evaluation of foreign degrees, aimed at finding out whether one's foreign degree allows one to enroll in a (three-year) bachelor's degree program / five-six years postgraduate program / postgraduate degree program
- Attendance (Frequenza): attendance to the courses may be compulsory or not. Most courses at the University of Turin do not impose compulsory attendance
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- Buddy: a local student who helps international students, dedicating their free time to facilitate integration in Turin and its university. A Buddy can help you out with all kinds of problem related to the University of Turin and issues related to the city life or Italian bureaucracy
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- Classes of degree courses: defined by ministerial Decrees, they group the study courses having the same learning objectives and consequently the same necessary educational activities
- Combined course: combined courses are made up of more than one course units. There can be only one exam, which is valid for all course units, or an exam for each course unit. If there are several exams, rhe final grade is usally an average grade resulting from the different grades of the single course units
- Curriculum: the whole of university and extra-university formative activities, specified in the General Academic Regulations of each Degree Course, necessary to award the relative qualification. Each curricula can be characterised by individual educational paths
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- Degree programs with restricted number of places: programs that require candidates to pass an admission test and that have a limited number of places for enrolment. They require you to take the admission test described in the announcement; if you obtain the score necessary to be placed usefully in the ranking list, you will be able to be enrolled
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- ECTS: the ECTS is the credit system used across the European Union to express the volume of learningbased on the defined learning outcomes and their associated workload. In Italy ECTS are called CFU. 1 CFU consists of 25 coursework and selfstudy hours. One academic year corresponds to about 60 university credits. 1 CFU corresponds to 1 ECTS. The University of Torino adopts an ECTS mark conversion scale based on a statistical distribution mechanism of marks for any single educational area.a statistical distribution mechanism of marks for any single educational area.
- Educational activity: any activity that University organises to ensure the cultural and professional education of the students, for example: teaching courses, seminars, practical or laboratory exercises, didactic activities in small groups, tutorials, theses, individual study and self-directed learning activities
- Esonero: an exam which can be taken during the course or at the very end of it. An “esonero”, which can be either written or oral, tests the student’s progress and it contributes to the final mark of the course
- Exam: grades for university exams in Italy are awarded on a 30-point scale. The minimum passing mark is 18, 30 and, in addition, 30 with honor (cum laude) is the best mark. In Italy exams can be both written and oral. When receiving the result of an exam, the student can accept it through their MyUnito personal page (if it is a written exam) or by simply telling the professor if it is an oral exam. If they are not satisfied with the result, they are allowed to refuse it and try taking the exam again in the next examination period or exam date, depending on the course. The term Exam is often used by students as a synomin of “Corso” (Course)
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- Internship: internships represent a period of on-thejob training, giving students and recent graduates the opportunity to acquire professional competences and skills
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- Learning objectives: the whole of knowledge and skills characterising the cultural and professional profile that the degree course aims to attain
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- Matriculation number: the number identifying each student. It is required in order to use several services at the University of Turin. A “matricola” is also a nickname given to firt year students in Italy. You can find it on your personal MyUniTo page
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- OFA (Obblighi Formativi Aggiuntivi) : additional course that a student enrolled in an undergraduate degree program or in a 5 / 6 postgraduate degree program without restricted number of places must take if he or she scores below the thresholds established for TARM (TOLC). At the end of the course, the final examination must be taken. There is time to pass it until the end of the academic year of enrolment
- Office hours (ricevimento): students can see professors during their office hours. It is better to writa an email beforehand to the professor you wish to meet in order to make an appointment.
- Online booklet: it is the student’s online document on which you can find your persolan data, your matriculation number and a list of all your exams with their grades
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- Semester: the University academic year is divided in two parts which are called ‘semesters’. The first semester begins in September and ends at the beginning of February, while the second semester starts in February and ends in August. Some Departments have also “emisemestri” (“half-semesters”
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- TARM (Minimum Requirement Assessment Test ): a minimum requirements test required by Italian law in order to verify if the candidate for an undergraduate degree program or in a 5 / 6 postgraduate degree program without restricted number of places has the minimum requirements to enter the chosen degree program. At the University of Turin, the TARM is delivered through TOLC TEST. It is not needed to enter a postgraduate degree course without restricted number of places
- TOLC test: mode of delivery of the TARM or the admission test; the test takes place on the CISIA platform. Each undergraduate degree program (three-year) has a specific TOLC
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- Postgraduate degree program without restricted number of places (free admission): a postgraduate degree program that does not require an admission test and has no limited number of places. The admission to this type of program is subjected to the possession of curricular requirements and adequacy of personal preparation positively assessed by the course committee
- Postgraduate degree course: a two-year degree course awarding a scond level academic degree (master's degree). The entrance qualification is a first level academic degree (bachelor's degree); it is not necessary to take the TARM (TOLC) to get admitted in it
- Postgraduate degree course committee: the committee of the postgraduate degree program in charge of evaluating the international candidate's curricular and linguistic requirements to get access into the postgraduate degree
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- Undergraduate and 5/6 years postgraduate program without restricted number of places (free admission): an undergraduate degree program and 5/6 years postgraduate degree program that does not require to pass an admission test and does not have a limited number of places. It requires to sit for the TARM (delivered through TOLC); in case you score below the thresholds set by the different degree programs, you can still be enrolled but will be assigned an Additional Formative Obligation (OFA) defined by each course of study
- University Educational Credit (CFU - Credito Formativo Universitario): CFU is the unit of measure of learning work that a student needs, having an appropriate initial education, to acquire competences and skills. One credit corresponds to 25 hours of learning, spent attending classes, laboratories, and seminars and studying. In some health professions courses, one credit corresponds to 30 hours. Students acquire CFU getting through exams and final degree examination, which still have a mark (out of 30/30 for exams, out of 110/110 for final examination)
- Undergraduate degree course : a three-year degree program that awards a first level academic degree (bachelor's degree). The entrance qualification is an upper secondary school diploma
- Universitaly: ministerial platform to submit pre-enrollment visa requests
