Overseas Examinations

Overseas exam arrangements are only made for students:

• Who are normally resident overseas and have exams in August exam period; and
• Whose modules are allowed to be taken overseas.

Please note: Overseas exam arrangements will not be made for students who are on holiday or temporarily overseas during the published examination periods (19-31 August 2024).

Resit examinations for Year 1: 
Monday 19 August 2024 - Saturday 24 August 2024

Resit examinations for Year 2/3/4/Master: 
Monday 19 August 2024 - Saturday 31 August 2024 - excluding 25 Aug

You shall pay all local charges and/or costs directly to the administering overseas institution that making the local exam arrangements. UNNC do not charge students for overseas administrative fees.

[Please complete Step 1-3 before 17:00pm, 18 July 2024 (Beijing, China time)]

Step 1 - Contact relevant Faculty Offices/CELE Professional Services Office (CPSO) to

1. Check if all the exams can be taken overseas. If one of the students’ exams could not be taken overseas, then the students need to take the exams in UNNC. 

2.  Fill in the overseas application link (via Microsoft Form) and get the approval.

Faculty Offices/CELE Professional Services Office (CPSO) contact email addresses:

• NUBS China students: NUBS China Faculty Office NubschinaFO@nottingham.edu.cn
• FHSS students: Faculty office of Humanities and Social Sciences FHSS.Assessment@nottingham.edu.cn
• FoSE students: Faculty Office of Science and Engineering FOSE@nottingham.edu.cn
• Year 1 students: CELE Professional Services Office cpso@nottingham.edu.cn

Step 2 - Contact an overseas institution to facilitate exam(s).

Students choose one overseas institution from this list, contact them via provided email address and seek for their confirmation on being able to facilitating the exams.

In circumstances the overseas exams cannot be arranged at the same time as UNNC exams due to time difference, students must return to UNNC to complete the assessment. 

 Step 3 - Send the confirmation emails to EXAMS@nottingham.edu.cn

Students send both Faculty/CELE approval e-mail (in Step 1) and overseas institution’s confirmation e-mail (in Step 2) to EXAMS@nottingham.edu.cn. 

[On/Before 2 August 2024]

Step 4 - Receive exam timetable.

Students will receive individual exam timetable from EXAMS@nottingham.edu.cn.

[5 - 16 August 2024]

Step 5 - Contact the chosen overseas institution.

Students contact the chosen institution to confirm all the final arrangements and pay overseas fees to institution. It is students' responsibility to ensure the overseas exams arrangement are being made accordingly.

[19 - 31 August 2024]

Step 6- Attend the exam.

Students take the University ID card or ID booklet to attend the exams.

Cancelling your overseas exam arrangements.

If you decide to return to University of Nottingham Ningbo China to sit your exam(s), you will need to email exams@nottingham.edu.cn to cancel your arrangements before 1 August 2024 (17:00 China time).