Article 1: inscription in EPI is a annual and the academic year is divided into two semesters. Every semester includes 14 weeks and i tends with final exams. A catching up session is also expected by the veryend of the academic year for students who did not succeed during the main session of exams.

Article 2: Semesters are organised through teaching units (UE). The UE might be taken as lectures, TDs, TPs, projects or personal work.

Article 3: Attending classes is compulsory. The authorised amount of absences is  25% of the semestrial number of hours of the UE. More than this,the student has no longer the right to sit for exams of the main session regarding the UE.

Article 4: The continuous assessment (CC) may take any form of evaluation chosen by the teacher in charge (DS, written test,  oral test, TP, exposé, report, bibliography research,). The teacher has the task of submitting one mark related to the continuous assessment to the administration.  

Article 5: Calculating the UE final mark is accomplished througha mixed strategy: 60% for the final exams 40% for the continuous assessment. Some  UE (seminars, exposé, TP, …) might be evaluated as continuous assessment in an exclusive way.

Article 6: Passing from a class to another is accomplished by the annual mark that is superior or equal to 10/20. This final mark is calculated taking into concideration all the UE and their coeffiscients.

Article 7: For the catching up session, the final mark of every UE is calculated taking into concideration the best of the two marks givenin the main and in the catching up session.

Article 8: In the case where students have a final annual mark that is less than 10/20, ua class committee including EPI director and teachers  can examin the cases of bying back the marks according to the regulations established by the Scientific Consultancy.

Article 9: Failing is authorised only once. In this case, students do  sit only for the UE exams in which they had less than 10/20.