Exam

The examination is oral and with external censorship. The examination will be hold at the e-room. Altogether your presence at the e-room is required for approximately 55 min. E-rooms will be organized via zoom and each candidate receives an individual invitation to the e-room.  English, Norwegian, Swedish and Danish languages are possible to use for this examination.  

When you enter the e-room, you will be randomly assigned with a topic to present (among 16 topics in the list) and you will then have 30 minutes preparation time. You can use any sort of materials during the preparation.

The examination itself will take approximately 25 minutes. The examination starts with your presentation of the selected topic for maximum of 15 min. Under the circumstances of the e-room examinations, in advanced prepared slides can be used during the presentations. NB, there are no advantages or disadvantages to use 15 min in full or finish earlier ¨C the major criteria are: clarity of the evidence and sufficient comprehensiveness. Anyway, the time of your presentation will be limited - you will have to be selective and you will also be evaluated on how well you have selected relevant materials. If you have not finished in 15 min ¨C your presentation will be interrupted. In the rest of the time - 10 min - you will be asked additional questions related to either the topic of your presentation or any other topics from the list. These questions may be in form of displaying a plot or an equation and asking to explain reasons, models, approximations, temperature dependences, etc.     

The feedback on the results of the examination will be delivered to the Study Office accordingly.