Registration
If you have not passed an examination or if you would like to improve your examination result, you can usually register for the next ordinary examination. You register for exams in Studentweb.
If your course has compulsory activities, the course description will show whether you have to follow these again before you can take the exam again.
Examination attempts
In most courses at UiO, you can take the examination up to three times. You can not resit an examination if you have used the maximum number of examination attempts.
The restriction on the number of examination attempts applies in total for each course. The restriction also applies in the case of new admission to the same or another study programme which incorporates the course.
If you have a strong reason, you can normally apply for an extra examination attempt.
Master's degree theses
A master's degree thesis that has received the examination result "Fail" may only be resubmitted once as a new examination attempt, and then by the agreed date and in reworked form. A master's thesis that has received the examination result "Pass" cannot be resubmitted in reworked form.?This also applies to the final assignments in the professional programmes in psychology and theology and to the project assignment in the professional programme in medicine.
Which grade applies?
If you take the same examination several times, the best grade will apply as the final grade.
Studies with special regulations
Courses at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
The faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences has separate information about new examinations.
Courses at the Department of Economics
Several courses at the Department of Economics have restrictions, which prevents students from attending courses at lower levels if they have already passed specific courses at 2000, 3000 and 4000 level. It is not possible to improve grades in the courses which have restrictions.
Restrictions on resitting exams at the Department of Economics.
Medicine, Dentistry and Dental hygiene
For the study programmes in medicine, dentistry and dental hygiene, a new examination is as a general rule arranged after each regular examination for students who have received a fail. All students with a fail are automatically registered for the new examination.
An exception applies to medical students who are unable to attend or who receive a fail at the regular common final written partial exam in module 8. In this case, no opportunity for a new written exam is offered until the regular exam in the following semester. This is a common rule for the four medical programmes in Norway.
Students who wish to resit an examination, i.e. those who have previously passed, are given the opportunity to do so at the next regular examination. They must register themselves within the specified deadlines. Further information can be found on the relevant course page. For resits of an examination, results will follow the current grading scale.
For the study programme in medicine, passed examinations cannot be resit after the subsequent module/course has been passed.
The master's programme in Law
For examinations in the master's degree programme in Law, an examination candidate is allowed a limited number of resits of passed examinations. See regulations concerning the programme (in Norwegian only).