 The 1st semester starts at the beginning of October and finishes mid-February. There is a Christmas break in December. The examination session takes place at the beginning of February and lasts two weeks. The 2nd semester starts at the end of February and finishes in June with a break for Easter. The examination session starts in June and lasts about three weeks. There are also resit examination periods (in Polish: sesje poprawkowe) for those who did not pass their exams. A student who fails an exam during the first examination period after the winter semester has an opportunity to resit it in March (at the beginning of the second semester), but a student who did not pass an exam after the second semester may not retake it until September. Your teachers will inform you about the form of examinations at the beginning of the courses. Be prepared to pass oral or written examinations. You should know that sometimes some teachers enable volunteer students to take an exam earlier than it is planned within an examination period. In Polish, it is called zerówka and is held before the official examination period begins.
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