The Rules on Conducting the Entrance Examination, the criteria for determining the ranking of candidates and the scoring system

1. The exam lasts for 3 (three) hours effectively.
2. The candidates must bring a document for identification to the examination – a valid identity card or passport and a Confirmation of application (verified when submitting the documents).
3. At the exam, candidates are only allowed to have a document for identification (identity card or passport), a Confirmation of application (verified when submitting the documents) and are allowed only to use the pen received from the monitoring person, i.e. the pen which was on the bench together with the notebook and the answer form.
4. The text of the task, the notebook for solving the tasks and the answer form are given to the candidate by the monitoring person.
5. On the answer form, in the envisaged place, the candidate enters the surname, the name of one parent (as in the application form), his/her name and the number of the application from the confirmation of application. The candidate is obliged to enter the code of the assigned task on the answer form. A form that does not have a code yields the same number of negative points as the task in which all the answers are incorrect.
6. It is forbidden to bring and use any additional aids (mobile phones, smart watches, pocket computers etc.) at the exam. No smoking is allowed during the exam.
7. Immediately after the beginning of the exam, the monitoring person checks the identity of the candidate, as well as the information that the candidate entered to the answer form. Upon the completion of identification, the candidate MUST remove the ID card or passport from the table, so that only the pen, the confirmation of application and the material received from the monitoring person remain on the table.
8. The candidate MUST NOT sign his/her name or put any other sign on the answer form other than what has been envisaged. The candidate who additionally marks the form IN ANY WAY will be disqualified.
9. The number of tasks in the exam is 20. The correct task will be awarded by 3 points.
10. The candidate solves the tasks in the notebook. Based on the obtained solution and the offered answers, the candidate circles only one answer for each task in the answer form under the number corresponding to the number of the task.
11. There are 6 responses offered for each task, out of which only 1 is correct. THE CORRECT answer IS AWARDED by 3 POINTS. The INCORRECT answer yields negative points (-0.3 points). The answer “I DO NOT KNOW” (marked as “N” on the answer form) does not yield any points.
12. It is ALLOWED to circle ONLY ONE of the offered answers. Circling no answer, circling two or more answers, as well as crossing out one or more answers, yields negative points envisaged for an incorrect answer.
13. Candidates are notified that the answer forms should be filled out very carefully. IT IS NOT ALLOWED TO ERASE OR CORRECT THE ALREADY CIRCLED ANSWERS in the answer form. The candidate HAS THE RIGHT TO REPLACE THE ANSWER FORM by raising his/her hand to inform the monitoring person and request the replacement of the answer form.
14. No conversation between the candidates is allowed from the moment of distributing the tasks. If candidates talk to each other or use non-allowed means, they will be removed from the exam and disqualified.
15. It is allowed to leave the exam room one hour after the beginning of the exam at earliest, and it is mandatory to hand in the filled out answer form, the task text and notebook. Return to the exam room is not allowed. In the case that the candidate has forgotten some of his/her personal belongings in the exam room, he/she must wait for the exam to finish and then, accompanied by one monitoring person, return to the place in the exam hall where he/she was sitting.
16. When the candidate decides that he/she has completed the exam, he/she invites the monitoring person by raising his/her hand. The monitoring person takes over the completed answer form, the text of the task and the notebook, signs the Confirmation of application and writes down the number of the exam room. The signed Confirmation of application is returned to the candidate. The signed Confirmation of application should be kept by the candidate until the completion of enrolment in the faculty, since it is evidence that the candidate handed in the task.
17. Notices on the beginning of the exam, the time that has passed, and the time when candidates may start leaving the exam room will be given in the exam room by the monitoring person.
18. During the entrance exam, only the Dean of the Faculty and the members of the Committee for entrance examination for the enrolment of students in the Faculty can enter the exam room.

CONTEMPT OF ANY OF THE ABOVE-MENTIONED RULES ENTAILS DISQUALIFICATION OF THE CANDIDATE, REGARDLESS OF THE PREVIOUSLY ATTAINED POINTS, AND A DISQUALIFIED CANDIDATE CANNOT BE ENROLLED IN THE FACULTY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING.

The order of candidates for enrolment to the first year of Bachelor academic studies is determined based on:

a) Results achieved in the entrance exam. In the entrance exam, the candidate can score a maximum of 60 points (20 tasks x 3 points = 60 points).

b) General success in secondary school. General success in secondary school entails the number of points that is obtained as a sum of the average grades in all subjects in the first, second, third and fourth grade, multiplied by 2 (two). On these grounds, the candidate can acquire at least 16, and at most 40 points. The average grade in secondary school is calculated by rounding up to two decimal places.

c) The success of candidates who completed the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme is determined by multiplying the average grade from the first two years of secondary school by two, which amounts to a minimum of 8 and a maximum of 20 points, while the success in the International Baccalaureate is valued at a maximum of 20 points. The International Baccalaureate diploma is issued to a student only if they achieved a total score of at least 24, with the maximum total score being 45. According to the evaluation principle of secondary school certificates in Serbia, a total score of 24 is valued at 8 points, while a total score of 45 is valued at 20 points. The formula for calculation is as follows:

The number of points = 8 + (total score - 24) × 12/21

The RANKING LIST is compiled according to the total number of points each candidate acquired based on the established scoring method. A candidate can score a maximum of 100 points. The Committee compiles a unique RANKING LIST. The place at the RANKING LIST and the total number of acquired points determine whether a candidate can be enrolled in the first year of Bachelor Academic Studies, as well as whether the candidate will be financed from the state budget, or will pay the tuition fee.

When compiling the overall RANKING LIST, the candidates who are enrolling for the first time in the first level of studies and at the University of Belgrade – Faculty of Mechanical Engineering are ranked first, and other candidates are ranked after them.

The candidate can be enrolled at the study programme as the student whose studies are financed from the state budget of the Republic of Serbia (a budget student) if he/she is ranked in the final RANKING LIST up to the number approved for the enrolment of the candidates whose studies are financed from the state budget and if he/she attains at least 51 points.

A candidate can be enrolled in the first year of a study programme in the status of the student financed from the budget of the Republic (a budget student) only once at the same level of studies.

The candidate can be enrolled as the student who pays the tuition fee (a self-financing student) if he/she is placed in the final RANKING LIST up to the number approved for the enrolment of the self-financing students and if he/she attains at least 30 points.

If the candidate who has acquired the right to enrol does not enrol within the prescribed timeline, another candidate can be enrolled instead of him/her, according to the determined order in the RANKING LIST.

If there are vacancies for enrolment, an additional enrolment period will be organised. In the additional enrolment period, the candidates can apply for vacant positions with the number of points they acquired in the entrance examination in Mathematics:

• at another study programme of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in Belgrade, or
• at another study programme of one of the faculties of the University of Belgrade.

It is necessary for such candidates to produce an appropriate certificate of the number of points achieved at that entrance exam or the number of the application from the entrance exam that they took at another faculty and the web address where the final ranking list of that particular faculty has been posted.