On examination day

Time and place for your exam

Exam times

Most exams at Chalmers last four hours.

• Morning exams start at 08:30.
• Afternoon exams start at 14:00.

Students who have been granted a time extension will have 50 percent more time, starting at 08:30 for morning exams and 12:00 for afternoon exams.

Find your exam room

Information about exam rooms is available at least 4 working days before the exam period begins. Visit the exam schedule for Johanneberg or Lindholmen. Follow the instructions at the top of the schedule to find your individual exam room. Please note that there may be changes on short notice. Therefore, check your exam room again on the day of the exam.

Use Chalmers Maps or the campus app for directions to your exam room.

Notes for those sitting adapted examinations

Students receiving disability study support generally sit exams in the same building as ordinary examinations. You will be notified of the precise examination hall in an email from the Examination Administration Office, three working days before each exam. If you are unsure where to go, you can always consult one of the examination receptions. Once you arrive at your exam hall, the invigilators will know what support you need and will give you the appropriate assistance.

Rules and routines for examination

Sign up for your exam

You must be signed up for the exam in order to take it.

Bring a valid ID, your anonymisation code and your access card

Check-in starts 30 minutes before the exam starts. Bring a valid ID document and have it at hand when you enter the exam hall.

The following ID documents are approved:

• Passport
• Swedish national identity card 
• Swedish driving licence
• Swedish SIS-marked ID card
• Swedish ID card issued by a government body
• ID card from an EU country, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway or Switzerland

A residence permit card is not an approved ID document. Digital ID cards, such as the BankID digital ID card, are not approved either.

Bring your anonymisation code to the exam hall

The code must be written on the cover sheet and on each answer sheet that you hand in. Your code is issued in Ladok for students when you are signed up for an exam. If you have forgotten your code, you will be able to obtain it from the invigilator.

Bring your access card

Bring your access card when you take an exam, as some buildings and rooms will be locked during exam periods.

Where to sit in the examination hall

• Check-in is handled by the invigilator when you enter the examination hall. Have your ID document ready.
• At campus Johanneberg you can sit at any free seat.
• At campus Lindholmen you will be allocated a numbered seat. There will be a printed cover sheet with your anonymisation code, answer booklet and seat number. Always double check that your anonymisation code is correct.
• Put personal belongings such as jackets and bags in the examination hall’s designated place.
• Mobile phones, smart watches and other prohibited electronic equipment must be switched off and stored with your personal belongings.

Write clearly

• Write your name (clearly), personal identity number and anonymisation code on the seating plan. For exam papers that are scanned, a printed cover sheet is used (at campus Lindholmen). In these cases, you do not need to complete these details.
• You may only use paper that has been issued by the invigilator. It is therefore not permitted to bring your own rough paper or writing paper into the examination hall. All writing paper and rough paper must be handed in to the invigilator at the end of the exam, even if unused.
• Red ink must not be used.

Only bring permitted aids

• The examiner determines which aids are permitted during an examination. These are stated in the course synopsis and on the examination paper. You can read more about permitted aids on the page Before examination

You are allowed to bring something to eat and drink

• You may bring snacks to the examination hall, provided this does not disturb the other candidates. For allergenic reasons, you may not bring peanuts, other legumes or nuts, including almonds.

Do not talk to other students

• For the duration of the examination, students are prohibited from talking to other students or outsiders, either in the hall or during toilet visits.
• The examiner, or supervising teacher appointed by the examiner, will visit the examination halls at least once and be available by phone to answer questions.

Breaks and when the exam is finished

• You may leave the examination hall no sooner than 60 minutes after the start of the allotted examination time. Breaks are not permitted during this time. After 60 minutes have passed, toilet breaks are permitted. Before taking a toilet break, report to the invigilator. During the last 30 minutes of the exam, toilet breaks are no longer permitted.
  
  
• Other rules apply to students with extended writing time sitting examinations in the afternoon. See information about adapted examinations.
  
  
• Smoking breaks are not permitted.
  
  
• The invigilator will announce when there are 30 minutes, 15 minutes and five minutes of exam time remaining. You must finish your examination within the allotted time, including completing the specified code and page number on all sheets that are handed in and sorting the sheets in  numerical order. On the cover sheet, you must also write the number of sheets handed in and which questions you have answered. Check-out with the invigilator before leaving the examination hall.
  
  
• For Campus Lindholmen: Please do not write anything else on the cover sheet as this can cause an error when the exam is scanned.

Digital examinations on campus (via Inspera)

You will write digital exams on your laptop or on a computer in a computer room. The Chalmers system uses the Inspera Assessment cloud service for digital exams. Just like a written exam, you must be signed up in order to take a digital exam. If you are not signed up for the exam session, you will have to take the exam during the next session.  

Examination, sign up and withdraw in Ladok

To use Inspera, you must download Safe Exam Browser (SEB) to your computer. This is a locked browser that gives you access to Inspera but nothing else on the internet. Once your computer has SEB installed, Inspera will detect and calibrate your machine. When you open the exam in Inspera, it will be downloaded locally to your computer.

You can try by logging into Inspera and select Demo Exam with SEB.
To Inspera and Safe Exam Browser