Arrangements for exams to be taken overseas are only made for students who: 

• Is on a course which allows exams to be taken overseas or; 

• Are normally resident overseas and have external resits; 

• Have been given permission by the Global Opportunities Team under mobility arrangements; 

• Must be overseas during the exam period as a requirement of their course; or 

• Have other exceptional circumstances approved on an individual case basis. 

• Where the candidate is not an overseas resident, arrangements will not be made unless the circumstances and reasons have been discussed with the Global Opportunities Team, Student Services or the school/department. 

Please note that overseas exam arrangements will not be made for students who are on holiday or temporarily overseas during the published examination periods.  

Examination(s) must take place simultaneously with the corresponding examination in Nottingham.

Dates for this academic year are published on the examination webpages. 

You can find examination dates for future years on the key dates webpage. 

Yes, you must apply online, and have your application accepted for each exam period that you want to sit overseas. 

Completing an application form only entitles you to apply for the next scheduled exam period.

Do not wait until you receive official notification via the Blue Castle or an official letter from the university before applying to sit overseas. 

As soon as your school informs you of your results you must start making the arrangements.

The Exams Ops team will contact your school/department to confirm that you have sought permission to take your exams overseas. If you do not have permission, please be aware that your application may be refused. 

You will then receive an email notification confirming whether your application has been approved/refused. If approved, the Exams Ops team will liaise with your school/department and your chosen overseas institution to make the arrangements for your exam(s). 

Before the start of the exam period, check your personal exam timetable via SharePoint to ensure that your chosen institution is showing as the location for your examinations. Please also ensure that this time correlates with the communications that you have received from your overseas institution. 

Please note the following: 

• You should not use the MyNottingham/MyCal apps to check your timetable. These applications may sync with the time zones set up on your devices, which may result in exam start times appearing incorrectly on your device. The Exams Ops will not be responsible for students reporting to their overseas exams at the incorrect time due to issues with set up of time zone/sync on your device. If you are unsure of your exam times, contact the Exams Office 

• It is your responsibility, before your first exam, to contact your chosen institution to confirm all final arrangements and pay any local costs 

• It is your responsibility to take your University ID card with you to your exams.

Yes, provided that you have been assessed by Disability Support Services and you have adjustments to your exams such as additional time or a separate room. However, it is your responsibility to check whether your overseas institution is able to facilitate your requirements. 

Please also contact the Exams Office as early as possible, particularly if you require a support worker, the use of a PC to type your exams or any other special equipment.  

Whilst every effort will be made to ensure that reasonable exam adjustments will be accommodated overseas, they cannot be guaranteed.

No, incoming exchange students studying in Nottingham are expected to sit the normal assessment relating to the courses to which they are signed up for. 

Only in exceptional circumstances may exchange students apply to the school/department to arrange an alternative form of assessment. Where this is not possible, the student must return to Nottingham to complete the assessment. 

Only where the start date of the home university semester is before the end of the Nottingham exam period may a student apply to take their examinations overseas. 

Schools should not advise students that they may sit overseas at this stage – for incoming students this is only possible if the student has been given permission to sit overseas as part of an exchange agreement with their home institution. 

UK-based students spending time on a year abroad in UNM or UNNC who wish to take their assessments in the UK, must contact the Exams Office in UNM or UNNC to make the necessary arrangements. These arrangements are not made by the UK Exams Ops. 

Students participating in a University of Nottingham Inter-Campus exchange who must sit an examination for a module at a location different from where it was originally sat/scheduled must apply to sit “overseas” through the course’s original campus. 

For example, a UNUK-based student who has returned to the UK and needs to re-sit an exam for a course they were enrolled on at UNNC/UNM during an exchange must apply to sit “overseas” through UNNC/UNM – even though the UK may not be considered “overseas” to this student. Please note there are strict deadlines in place. 

UNNC Overseas examinations - apply to sit a UNNC exam at a different location. Please contact UNNC for application deadlines.  

UNM Overseas examinations - apply to sit a UNM exam at a different location. Please contact UNNC for application deadlines