Discover university-level education and life at UNamur while reviewing the subjects essential to your future program of study.

To help you start your first year of studies on the right foot, UNamur offers a program of preparatory courses during the last two weeks of August, tailored to the university program of your choice.

Several modules are available: 

• academic research methods; 
• producing and managing information in communication and politics; 
• Dutch; 
• English.

These preparatory courses allow you to:

• review the knowledge you acquired in high school; 
• refine your study skills; 
• meet teaching assistants and professors in a more informal setting before the semester starts; 
• start building relationships with other students.

Test your knowledge and skills with the “Passports to the Baccalaureate.”

Starting in the first year, “Passports to the Bac” allow you to compare your knowledge and skills with your professors’ expectations. Based on your results, the Faculty will offer you remedial sessions. This will help you fill in any gaps in your knowledge and increase your chances of success. The results of these tests are not factored into your end-of-year evaluation.

To succeed in your first year, you need effective strategies.

Sessions on academic study skills are organized to familiarize you with learning techniques such as:

• taking clear and comprehensive notes;
• summarizing and synthesizing course material;
• gaining a deep understanding of the material;
• memorizing large amounts of information;
• managing your time during the regular school term and exam periods;
• organize your work;
• anticipate instructors’ expectations.

In addition, the Interfaculty Academic Support Unit offers individual guidance. Throughout the year, an advisor is available to review your study methods and techniques and help you improve them.

The Faculty offers remedial sessions, office hours, and other services between exam periods.

Remedial Sessions

Remedial sessions are held in small groups; they allow you to thoroughly review the material covered in class and prepare effectively for exams. The details of these sessions vary by course and are specified by the instructors.

Office Hours

Instructors or teaching assistants regularly hold group Q&A sessions. Outside of these office hours, they are also available to meet with you by appointment.

Between Exam Sessions

After the January and June exams, you have the opportunity to review your exam papers, attend a grading session, receive additional explanations, have your homework assignments graded, and more. All these activities are coordinated by the Faculty’s Academic Coordination Office, which serves as a liaison between students and faculty.

Study regularly, develop good study habits, and also familiarize yourself with your teachers’ expectations and their testing styles.

In the first year, formative assessments are held in late October in certain subjects. Your exams, marked and annotated, will be returned to you. These tests do not count toward your end-of-year grades. They are a tool to help you assess the level of expectation set by your professors and the effectiveness of your study methods.

You can discuss your results with your professors or the head of the Academic Coordination Office and, if necessary, contact the Interfaculty Academic Support Unit to improve your study habits.

Beyond the first year, you should tailor your efforts more effectively to the nature and importance of each subject in the curriculum. 

January, June, and, if necessary, August… three sessions to demonstrate your mastery of the material.

In January, you take the exams covering the first semester’s courses. If you fail, you can retake the exam in June and/or August. You have three chances to pass, but only during your first year of the bachelor’s program.

Starting in the second year of your bachelor’s degree, any exam failed during the January or June session is automatically rescheduled for the August session.