Preparatory courses

Discover university education and life at UNamur while revising the subjects essential to your future course.

To get your first year of study off to a good start, UNamur is offering a program of preparatory courses tailored to the university course of your choice during the last two weeks of August.

For future economics and management students:

  • mathematics;
  • methodology of university work;
  • Dutch;
  • English.

These preparatory courses enable you to:

  • revise the knowledge acquired in high school;
  • perfect your working methods;
  • meet assistants and professors on a more informal basis before the start of the school year;
  • create your first links with other students.

Do you have what it takes?

Test your knowledge and skills with "Passeports pour le bac".

At the start of your first year, "Passeports pour le bac" allow you to compare your achievements with the expectations of your teachers.

Depending on your results, the Faculty will offer you reinforcement sessions. In this way, you can fill in any gaps and promote your success. The results of these tests are not taken into account in your end-of-year assessment.

Are your methods appropriate?

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

Working methods sessions are organized to familiarize you with university learning techniques:

  • taking clear and comprehensive notes;
  • summarizing and synthesizing material;
  • understanding material in depth;
  • memorizing large amounts of information;
  • managing your time during class and blockade periods;
  • organizing your work;
  • anticipating teachers' requirements.

Also, the cellule interfacultaire d'appui pédagogique. Throughout the year, a consultant is available to review your study methods and techniques and help you improve them.

And if you run into difficulties?

The Faculty offers remediation sessions, standby duty and other services between exam sessions.

Remediation

Remediation sessions are organized in small groups; they enable you to review the subjects taught in depth and prepare effectively for exams.

The modalities of these sessions are specific to each course and are specified by the teachers.

Permanences

Teachers or assistants regularly organize group question-and-answer sessions. Outside these sessions, they can also meet with you by appointment.

Between exam sessions

After the January and June assessments, you have the opportunity to consult your exam papers, attend a correction, obtain further explanations, correct
exercises done at home, etc.

All these activities are coordinated by the Faculty's Didactic Cell, which acts as an interface between students and teachers.

How can you prepare for the exams?

Studying regularly, acquiring good methods, but also knowing the requirements of teachers and their way of questioning.

In the first year, formative assessments are organized at the end of October in certain subjects. These tests are not included in the grades awarded at the end of the year. They are a tool enabling you to assess the teachers' level of demand and the effectiveness of your methodology.

You can discuss your results with the teachers or the head of the Didactic Cellule and, if necessary, contact the Cellule Interfacultaire d'Appui Pédagogique to improve your working method.

Beyond the first year, you should adapt your efforts more effectively to the nature and importance of each of the subjects in the program.

Exam organization

January, June and, if necessary, August... three sessions to prove your mastery of the subjects.

In January, you sit the exams covering the 1st quadrimester courses. If you fail,
you can retake the exam in June and/or August. Three chances to pass, but only in the first bachelor year.

From the second bachelor year onwards, any exam failed in the January or June session is automatically carried over to the August session.