STUDENT GUIDE
(2020 - 2021)
Master's degree programme in
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING (change programme)
Location: Torino
Class: BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
OVERBOOKING COURSES and Incomplete courses (with exam still pending)
When you create your Annual Personal Study Plan (APSP), first of all you must include your incomplete courses (with exam still pending). Incomplete courses are the courses contained in your APSP of previous years for which you have not passed the exam yet, or, your grade has not been recorded in your trascript yet. These courses are marked in blue by the system. They need to be included in your APSP before adding any new course for the first time.
A full-time workload APSP can include up to a maximum of 80 credits.
A part-time workload APSP can include up to a maximum of 40 credits.
If you add some extra courses and exceed the maximum limit, these courses are called overbooking courses (marked in red).
You are allowed to do this operation in order to take into account: 
  • new exams that you are going to take in the Autumn examination session (September);
  • exams passed but not recorded in your trascript yet (for example exams taken abroad during a mobility project);
  • internships and/or foreign languages and/or external learning activities recorded in your transcript before 31st December 2020.    
As your exams (taken before the Autumn session), internships, foreign languages and external learning activities are recorded in your transcript (by 31st December 2020), they will be removed from your APSP, thus “releasing space” for new credits. Your overbooking courses will now fall into your APSP following the order in which they had been entered. 
This adjustment period normally ends a few weeks after the end of the September examination session (except for internships, foreign languages and external learning activities).   

Example of an Annual Personal Study Plan with overbooking courses:   


In this example, there are two courses (marked in red) which exceed the limit of 80 credits.
If you pass the Termofluidodimanica exam by September, a space corresponding to 10 credits will be released in your APSP. This allows another course (Energetica e fonti rinnovabili) to fall into your new APSP.
For this reason make sure you include your courses with a priority order and pay attention to the semester in which each course is offered. It is important that you schedule your courses in a way that allows you to finish all your exams before your expected graduation date.
Other exams that you may pass after the Autumn examination session (September) will not be removed from your APSP. This means that no further space will be released for your overbooking courses, which will NOT fall into your APSP.
You will NOT see your overbooking courses on your personal page of the Teaching Portal (as they remain outside your APSP).
This means that you will not be able to:
  • attend these courses;
  • take these exams for the entire academic year.
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