Decision of the Faculty Council – The methodology for the organization and conduct of final examinations at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science in the examination periods June-July and September 2025

7 February, 2025   Announcements about Completion of Studies, News & Announcements

Approved by the Faculty Council on 10.12.2024

This methodology is an annex to the Regulation on the organization and conduct of final examinations for bachelor’s and master’s degree studies approved by the UBB Senate Decision and is in accordance with the provisions of the National Education Law No. 1/2011, together with its amendments and supplements, as well as the Ministry Regulation No. 6125 of December 20, 2016, concerning the approval of the Methodological Framework for the organization and conduct of the final examinations on bachelor’s and master’s level, as well as the Charter of Babeș-Bolyai University (BBU).

In each academic year, the bachelor’s and master’s final examinations are organized in two ordinary sessions, in June-July, respectively, in September, with the same tests and topics. Registration of graduates for the bachelor’s or master’s final examination is according to the announced calendar and to a methodology announced in due time on the web page of the faculty.

In the preparation process for the bachelor’s or master’s thesis, the Guidelines for writing, formatting, and defending the bachelor’s, master’s, or final thesis, as well as the appendix regarding the Declaration of Authenticity (see Annex 5), are followed. The bachelor’s/master’s thesis must be written and defended in the language of the specialization followed by the graduate or in a language of great international circulation.

Each thesis undergoes a similarity test. A bachelor’s/master’s thesis is accepted for defense if the similarity index is 20% or less.

The final examination (bachelor’s/master’s level) is considered passed if the overall grade is at least 6.00. The results for each part of the final exam will be announced on the AcademicInfo platform no later than 48 hours after the last candidate has been tested.

Regarding the intellectual property rights and copyrights of the thesis, as well as the related applications (where that is the case),

  • The author owns the intellectual property rights;
  • The university has the right to reproduce or publish the entire thesis or parts of it.

If the thesis is prepared in collaboration with experts outside the faculty, the student must submit Annex 4 to the department’s secretarial office no later than March 1 of the year in which the thesis defense takes place.

A. The examination at the bachelor’s level

  1. The examination on bachelor’s level at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science consists of two examinations:
    • First examination: evaluation of basic and specialized knowledge: written exam.
    • Second examination: presentation and defense of the thesis: oral presentation.
  2.  If the grade for each of these two exams is at least 5.00, it is considered a pass.
  3. The result of the second examination cannot be contested as it is an oral presentation.
  4. The grade of the final exam is the arithmetic mean of the grade of exam 1 and the grade of exam 2.

First examination:

  1. At least six months prior to final exam registration, the approved and announced topic will be the subject of the first examination.
  2. The dean of the faculty (in consultation with the department heads) appoints subject committees that make up the exam subjects and the corresponding marking scale, based on the exam topic.
  3. The dean of the faculty (in consultation with the department heads) appoints evaluation committees made up of a sufficient number of teaching staff who carry out the evaluation activity. Additionally, upon the department directors’ proposal, the dean appoints appeals committees, to which the teaching staff responsible for the initial evaluation cannot be a member. The grade will only change after re-correction if the difference is more than 0.50 points from the original grade. However, if the original grade is below 5.00 or above 9.50, the final grade will be based on the re-correction mark.
  4. The duration of the written test is 3 hours. The minimum passing grade for the written test is 5.00. Two members of the evaluation committee evaluate each subject. Each teacher gives a whole grade so that there is no difference of more than one point between any two evaluators. The subject’s grade is the arithmetic mean of the grades awarded.
     
    The scoring is done as follows:
     
    Mathematics specialization:

    1. Mathematics major: the arithmetic mean of the grades of the three examination topics from the mathematics field (Algebra, Mathematical analysis, Geometry);
    2. Mathematics-Computer Science major: 2/3 of the mathematics grade + 1/3 of the computer science grade. The mathematics grade is calculated using the same formula as for the mathematics major.

     
    Computer Science specialization:

    1. Computer Science major: the arithmetic mean of the grades for the three examination topics from the computer science field (Algorithms and programming, Databases, Operating Systems).

Second examination:

  1. The second part of the exam consists of the presentation and defense of the bachelor’s thesis (oral presentation), as well as questions regarding the content of the paper.
  2. The candidate will have 15 minutes to present the paper and five minutes to respond to the commission’s questions.
  3. For the second examination, each member of the evaluation commission assigns a whole grade so that there is no difference of more than two points between the evaluators. The final grade of the test is the arithmetic mean of the grades awarded. The Evaluation Scale is detailed in Annex 1, and the model of the Commission Evaluation Sheet is in Annex 2.
  4. If the scientific supervisor of the thesis cannot attend the public defense of the coordinated work, then he/she must prepare an evaluation report (see a sample in Annex 3).
  5. A grade obtained by a candidate in one of the previous examination sessions of the final examination may be recognized, at the student’s request, in the current examination session, provided that the structure and content of the examination have not changed significantly. Recognition is made by the equivalence commission at the faculty level based on a request that the student submit to the secretariat on a date set before the start of registration for the bachelor’s exam, according to the announced calendar for the graduation session.

B. The examination on master’s level

  1. The final master’s exam consists of the presentation and defense of the thesis (oral presentation), followed by a question session on the topic of the paper.
  2. The candidate will have 15 minutes to present the paper and five minutes to respond to the commission’s questions.
  3. Each member of the evaluation commission assigns a whole grade so that there is no difference of more than two points between the grades of any two members, and the final grade of the test is the arithmetic mean of the marks awarded. The Evaluation Scale is detailed in Annex 1, and the model of the Commission Evaluation Sheet is in Annex 2.
  4. If the scientific supervisor of the thesis cannot attend the public defense of the coordinated work, then he/she must prepare an evaluation report (see a sample in Annex 3).
  5. Since the master’s thesis presentation and defense are oral exams, the results cannot be disputed.

Note: This decision may be amended and supplemented in accordance with subsequent regulations issued at the national and university levels.

The following documents are part of this regulation:

Topics for the bachelor’s exam

Dean,
Conf. dr. Marcel-Adrian Șerban