You can acquire free credits with the following training activities: 

• Courses suggested by the degree programme
• Specializing Workshops (8 CFU)
• Learning activities outside the university (the number of CFU changes on the basis of the activity type)
• Competitive sporting activities (3 CFU)
• Student team activities (the number of CFU changes on the basis of the activity type)

COURSES SUGGESTED BY THE DEGREE PROGRAMME:

If you are interesed in attending a course suggested by the degree programme and indicated in the Teaching portal (see the Curriculum - Manifesto degli Studi - Free Credits), when you define your Annual Personal Study Plan, you will insert the code of the course you wish to attend, since such courses are not assigned on the basis of merit rankings.

SPECIALIZING WORKSHOPS (allocation on the basis of merit) 
Specializing workshops for the Master’s degree programmes of the Collegi of Architecture, Design,  Urban Studies and Planning are assigned on the basis of merit, taking into account the preference order expressed by each student and the number of places available for each workshop.   We remind you that procedures for the choice of specializing workshops will be activated before the beginning of second semester. In order to be able to express your preferences, upon definition of your Annual Personal Study Plan, you must have inserted the names and generic codes of each course you wish to attend, within the deadlines illustrated in the academic calendar.  

Exams that have been anticipated from the Master’s degree programme will not count towards the calculation of the average grade.    
Calculation of the merit score:  

(overall weighted average of the Bachelor’s degree * 180) + [(V1 * CFU1) + (V2 * CFU2) + (Vn + CFUn)] ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________          

The number of semesters is calculated starting from the first enrolment in the university system. The score is calculated taking into account only those exams that were recognized and validated by Politecnico di Torino.  

The calculation of the merit score is based on the exams passed within the September 2016 examination session. 

You are allowed to express your preferences only if you have inserted the generic code “01RQDQA - Specializing Workshop “ in your Annual Personal Study Plan.

When to express your order of preference for specializing workshops Master’s degree students:

• from 16^th to 23^rd February 2017 (first phase – merit ranking list)
• from 28^th February 1^st March at 10.00 a.m. until 7^th March 2017 (second phase - selection of courses with available seats)

(Aggiornamento effettuato in data 16/01/2017)

You can repeat this procedure until the closure of the period dedicated to the definition of the Annual Personal Study Plan.

Choice of courses with residual seats (after the allocation on the basis of merit)
If, for any reason, you haven’t chosen your free credits by the deadline, you will be offered the possibility to choose a single preference among the courses with residual seats.    

Log into your personal page of the Teaching Portal, go to the section “SEGRETERIA ON-LINE”, then select “ACCEDI/ACCESS” from the box named “COMPILA PIANO CARRIERA – CARICO DIDATTICO/FILL IN YOUR PSP /APSP”. The system will show the list of courses with residual seats, as illustrated in picture no.2: