What are Additional Learning Requirements?
Enrolment for first- and single-cycle degree programmes requires certain basic knowledge. The assessment of basic knowledge seeks to ensure that you do not have significant weaknesses in particular subjects for which appropriate preparation is required in order to tackle the selected degree programme successfully.
This knowledge is usually assessed by means of a test. Even if the assessment identifies weaknesses in one or more areas, you can still enrol, but you will have to do some supplementary activities known as Additional Learning Requirements.
How to satisfy the Additional Learning Requirements
Each degree programme envisages specific procedures for satisfying the Additional Learning Requirements. For more detailed information consult the website of your chosen first cycle and single cycle degree programmes.
Additional Learning Requirements and Enrolment in years other than the first
If you have been assigned an Additional Learning Requirement (OFA), in the year following your enrolment your registration will be:
- in the second year of the degree programme, provided you have already satisfied the Additional Learning Requirements;
- in the second year "on a conditional basis" until you have satisfied the OFA, and in any case until 31 March. Once you have satisfied the OFA, your registration status will be updated to the second year of the programme. If you do not satisfy it by 31 March, you will be registered as "repeating the first year".
If you enrol in the second year "on a conditional basis":
- you can still present a study plan for the second year;
- you cannot register for any second-year exams until you have satisfied the OFAs;
- you will be able to enrol in the second year and sit the second-year exams, only after satisfying the OFAs;
- you will be enrolled as "repeating the first year" if you do not satisfy your OFAs by the end of the first year (deadline 31 March).
If you have not satisfied the OFAs by 31 March, you will be registered as repeating the first year, and the OFAs will remain in place until you have satisfied them.
If you are registered as repeating the first year:
- you may only sit exams included in the first-year study plan and satisfy the OFAs in time to enrol in the second year of the degree programme in the following academic year.
- you cannot attend lessons for years other than the first;
- for the purposes of loss of student status, a repeating year is treated the same as registration as a student beyond the normal duration of the programme (fuori corso).
Deadlines
The deadline for completing the OFAs is 31 March each year, which coincides with the final day of the exam session of the academic year of enrolment (for example, by 31 March 2027 for OFAs assigned with enrolments in the 2025/26 academic year).
Go to the website of your first cycle and single cycle degree programmes to find out how to satisfy the OFAs and which exam sessions are available to do so before the deadline.
The rules and deadlines for the OFAs also apply to students enrolled on a part-time basis.