The evaluation is based on two parts:
Before defining the transition to the second year, the Faculty asks for a further important step, which becomes fundamental for three reasons:
In this sense, each first year Ph.D. student must:
The teacher will have to evaluate the PhD student's ability to understand a research paper, communicating his/her assessment to the Coordinator/Deputy Coordinator, expressed on a scale A, B, C, Fail. This evaluation is an integral part of the decision for admission to the second year. If a Ph.D. student obtains 2 Fail at this stage, he/she is not admitted to the second year.
The student must reach at least 90% of the hours of attendance of the courses in his/her profile. Hence: