Candidates who have Norwegian as a foreign language may be granted additional examination time of 20 minutes for written examinations of up to three hours’ duration, 30 minutes for examinations of three to five hours’ duration and one hour for examinations lasting five hours or more.
This arrangement applies during the first year the student is registered at UiT The Arctic University of Tromsø.
This arrangement does not apply for students who sit the examination in English or for students who had Norwegian as their second language at upper secondary school. Furthermore, this arrangement does not apply to candidates taking courses in Nordic languages.
This arrangement applies for students who have followed the curriculum in basic Norwegian, minorities who have other languages as their mother tongue (on the competency certificate appears as “short period of residence” in Norway – “kort botid” – which means they have lived in Norway less than six years).
Candidates who have Norwegian as a foreign language may, upon application, use a dictionary during the examination.
After your application to use a dictionary as an examination support material has been approved, the dictionary must be controlled by your programme administration.
You must print the form below, and bring it together with your approved application for examination support material to your programme administration.
You can find the application form here.