B7.02. What are the qualifications to apply for the special admission contest for international students?
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A candidate for the special application for international students meets the CONDITIONS FOR ACCESS to the application process if he/she holds:

a) a qualification conferring the right to apply for and enter higher education in the country in which the qualification was conferred, to be evidenced by a diploma or certificate issued by a competent authority;

b) Portuguese secondary education or a legally equivalent qualification. This qualification equivalence is defined by Ministerial Order no. 224/2006, of March 8 and Ministerial Order no. 699/2006, of July 12.
The Candidate with ACCESS CONDITIONS ARE ELIGIBLE FOR ADMISSION TO A GIVEN COURSE if, cumulatively:

a) Has a specific academic qualification in the subjects of the entrance exams established under the General Regime for Access to Higher Education in Portugal for the course to which he/she is applying;

b) Has proficiency in the Portuguese language or in the language in which the course he/she is applying for will be taught;

c) Satisfies the prerequisites , if they are required for the course they are applying for under the general access regime.
In the case of applications for access and admission to the degree in Music , in addition to meeting the above conditions, you must take and pass the Specific Vocational Aptitude Test (PAVE), which you are automatically enrolled in when you apply to the special application for international students.

Candidates have a SPECIFIC ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION if:

1. in the case of foreign secondary school graduates, prove one of the following conditions:

a) Passing the national examination for access to higher education held in the origin country;

b) Passing the national or recognized secondary school subject terminal exams that correspond to the entrance exams required for the course to which they are applying, taking into account the homology stipulated in the Deliberation published annually by CNAES with the table of correspondence of foreign secondary school terminal exams considered homologous to the entrance exams;

c) Passing the Portuguese national exams corresponding to the entrance exams required for the course to which they are applying, to be taken, as a self-proposed candidate, at a school in Portugal or at a Portuguese school abroad. The candidate must register for the exams under the conditions and by the deadlines regulated, established and published by the Portuguese Government's Directorate-General for Higher Education (DGES) ;

d) Conclusion of the preparatory course at the UÉ , with approval in the UCs corresponding to the entrance exams required for the course to which they are applying;

e) Passing the specific qualification exams for international students, held by the UÉ , in the language in which the course is taught and covering the subjects of the entrance exams required for the course you are applying for under the General Access Regime. This written exam may be supplemented by an oral exam if the selection board deems it necessary. The specific qualification exams may, if possible, be taken at foreign institutions with which the University of Évora has established protocols for this purpose.

2. In the case of Portuguese secondary school graduates or their legal equivalent , they must prove that they have passed the Portuguese national exams corresponding to the Portuguese entrance exams required under the General Access Regime for the course they are applying for.

Foreign or Portuguese national exams, as well as specific qualification tests, are valid for the special international student application at the UÉ, in the year in which they are taken and for the following four years.

PROFICIENCY IN THE PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE, the candidate must have an independent command corresponding to level B1 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, and this must be proven by one of the following documents:
a) Proof of completion of secondary education in Portuguese;
b) Authenticated B1 certificate issued by an institution in Portugal or another European Union country;
c) Elementary Diploma of Portuguese as a Foreign Language (DEPLE);

If language proficiency is not proven, the incoming student will be automatically enrolled in the diagnostic test and will be required to attend and approval, in the year of entry, the course unit (UC) corresponding to the language level determined in the diagnostic test. You will not be required to attend this course if you demonstrate proficiency of at least level B1 in the Portuguese language diagnostic test. Attendance at the curricular unit is subject to assessment, and success is compulsory for those entering without proficiency in the language to be able to renew their enrolment in the following year, or to obtain any certificate.


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