Assessment test Inglese B1 - Matricole 2025/2026

Assessment Test (AT) 2025/2026

(this page is being updated)

All the new students enrolled for the first time in undergraduate courses or 5-year single cycle degree courses in the 2025/2026 academic year are required to sit a level B1 English Assessment Test (AT). The students who attend courses with separate entry tests please read the information below at the section 'For students who did not have to sit the TE.LE.MA.CO. test'.

Watch this video (being updated) but, please, do not forget to read carefully the following information, as well.

With the exception of the new students enrolled in the degree courses below:

 

New students enrolled in the Unige Polytechnic degree courses are kindly asked to read carefully the Polytechnic's webpage about English courses. 

Exceptions

Teorie e tecniche della mediazione interlinguistica (TTMI)

Students who enrol in the Interpreting and Translation degree course will find further information about how to access the relevant tests on their degree courses’ sites in the “Test di ingresso” section.

Students pre-registered in the 2025-2026 Lingue e culture moderne (LCM) course 

Students who enrol in the Modern languages and cultures degree course are required to sit the TE.L.E.MA.CO test but must sit the level B1 English assessment test only if a) they decide to include the "English language" modules in their study plan (English as a first, second or third language) and b) If they are not exempt from taking the ENB1 Assessment test (see below). Those who do not include the "English Language" modules in their study plan can take the ENB1 AT but the result will not affect their study plan nor will it be recognised.

Students pre-registered in the 2025-2026 Lingue e culture moderne (LCM) course who are exempt from sitting the TE.LE.MA.CO. test (the information below is being updated for 2025-2026)

Those students who hold an international English certificate obtained from May 2023 (find here the list of certificates accepted by UniGE) is exempt from takin the ENB1 AT by uploading their certificates here (this link is not yet available). Those students who (1) hold an udergraduate or postgraduate degree obtained no later than three years from their new enrollment at unige and, (2a) during said degree course took an English B1 or higher level exam, or (2b) they carried out a fundamental component of said course in English (e.g. degree course entirely taught through the medium of English/PhD dissertation delivered in English) are equally exempted from sitting the English B1 Assessment test by uploading proof of (2a) and/or (2b) above here (this link is not yet available).

Students pre-registered in the 2025-2026 Lingue e culture moderne (LCM) course who do not pass the ENB1 AT

Those students who are required to sit the ENB1 AT but do not pass it will not be allowed to add to their study plan 'English' as a core subject or as a 'third' language, but they can join the 'Progetto Inglese' offered by CLAT if they are going to study English in their second or third year (starting from 2026-2027). The 'Progetto Inlgese' offers an online course monitored by tutors, at the end of which, if the course has been completed by a given deadline, they will be able to sit another ENB1 AT in March 2026. Should these students not pass the March test, they will be given the opportunity to attend an English course with a teacher, of the duration of 40 hours. If the students attend a minimum percentage of hours, which will be made known at the beginning of the course, they will then be eligible to take one final test in July.

Single cycle courses in in Chimica e tecnologia farmaceutiche, Farmacia, Giurisprudenza

New students enrolled in single cycle degree courses in Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Technologies, Pharmacy or Law can take the level B1 English assessment test. However, the test result will not affect their study plan.

Tourism and Hospitality (Scienze del Turismo: impresa, cultura e territorio)

New students enrolled in the Tourism and Hospitality degree course have to sit the  TE.L.E.MA.CO test but are not required to take the level B1 English assessment test.

Filosofia, Lettere, Storia

New students enrolled in the degree courses in Philosophy, Arts or History are required to sit the TE.L.E.MA.CO test, and they have to sit the level B1 English assessment test only if they add "Prova di conoscenza lingua inglese" to their study plan.

Alternatively, they can sit a test for one of the other languages featured in their degree courses (French, Spanish, German). The dates for such tests are set by the Department and they are published on the sites of the specific degree courses. 

Scienze e tecniche psicologiche (STP), Scienze della formazione primaria, Scienze dell'educazione

New students enrolled in the degree courses in Psychological Studies, Primary Education Studies, and Education Studies are not required to sit the AT and are required to address any questions regarding English to their Department.

Maritime Science and Technology

New students enrolled in the Maritime Science and Technology degree course are not required to sit the the level B1 English assessment test but must meet the entry requirements published in the course's handbook 

Medicina e chirurgia e Odontoiatria e protesi dentaria

New students enrolled in the single cycle Surgery, Medicine and Dentistry and Dental Prosthetics degree courses do not have to sit a B1 test but they need to refer to the lecturer in charge  (this link is being updated) of English in their degree course.

Certificate holders

Those students who already hold a valid certificate are required to upload it on the relevant Aulaweb page (link not yet available). If the certificate is validated by the student’s  English lecturer (this link is being updated), said students WILL NOT have to sit the level B1 English AT.

VERY IMPORTANT: if you are waiting for the result of an English level exam you did recently, do not sit the B1 AT in the meantime. If you sit the B1 AT and do not pass it, your certificate will not count towards your B1 level, that is, only the most recent result will be taken into account. This means that you will then have to do the English B1 online course to be able to take a B1 test again.

What happens if I pass the assessment test? (AT)

Each Course of Study (CdS) provides the recognition of the AT in only one of the following ways:

  • you have either passed a whole English exam for which credits are allocated
  • or you have passed part of an English exam for which no credits are allocated
  • or you are allowed to access an English exam
  • OFA (additional training requirement currently applicable to some courses of the Polytechnic School)

For further information about the English exam in your degree course, please, read your degree course handbook and/or get in touch with the lecturer in charge of English Language courses (this link is being updated) in your degree course.

AT procedures

For students who have to sit the TE.L.E.MA.CO test

The students who enrol in the degree courses for which the TE.L.E.MA.CO test is obligatory will sit the level B1 English assessment test together with the TE.L.E.MA.CO test in one of the dates below:

  • 10th, 11th, 12th September
  • 29th, 30th September and October 1st
  • 29th, 30th October
  • 18th November

Find here a demo of the English B1 Assessment test 

 

For students who do not have to sit the Te.Le.Ma.Co. test or did not sit the English B1 test with Te.Le.Ma.Co.

 Those students who are not required to take the TE.L.E.MA.CO test  can sit the level B1 English assessment test (managed by the Te.Le.Ma.Co. staff) on 13th October 2025 ONLY by enrolling at this link (link not yet available).

You were supposed to sit the Assessment test but did not

If you are among those students for whom the AT was compulsory but did not sit it in any of the available dates:  

- TE.L.E.MA.CO dates 

 you will need to refer back to your degree course’s English lecturer  (being updated).

If you do not sit the AT within the December session, you are not included in the Progetto Inglese.

You do not pass the assessment test

If you do not pass the test, you will receive an invitation to attend an online B1 English course on the Aulaweb, which you will be able to attend at your leisure with the support of a tutor. After you have completed the course by a given deadline, you will have the opportunity to sit a new B1 test in March.   
If you still do not pass the test in March, you will receive an invitation to attend a 40-hour course, this time face-to-face with a teacher, who will support you in your preparation for a further B1 test at the end.   
If you do not pass the B1 test after the 40-hour course, you will be able to re-take it according to the schedule set out by your English lecturer   (being updated).

 

Last update 24 April 2025