iscritto al primo anno fuori corso

06:09 Nov 17, 2008 

thanks everyone. A difficult one, because not 100% convinced by any of the suggestions, but Mara's definitely got the sense of it, so gets the points. I liked Pauley's too, but for an official certificate whether someone is first, as opposed to second, third... year fuori corso needs to be specified I think

21:21 Nov 12, 2008 

in some less common cases, students may choose, if they are far behind and know that they're not going to complete all their exams within the prescribed time, to enrol for their first year 'fuori corso' just after their regular first year. But as I said it's less common, because in most university you can do your first year exams at any subsequent time - I, for example - did a couple of mine as very last, during my 4th year, without needing to go 'fuori corso'.
In some universities students have compulsory exams to pass before they can move on and, although most people try and do these before anything else, to avoid to go into 'fuori corso' too early, they may need to in order to be able to finish them and keep going.
Also, as I was trying to explain in my clarification before, if one 'extra year' is not enough, you may need to enrol for your second year 'fuori corso', which means it is your second year beyond the regular completion time, and so on, no matter what exams you have to do.

17:18 Nov 12, 2008 

I've modified my proposal within the comments on my answer.

17:17 Nov 12, 2008 

OK, cheers Paul - have just seen that you added your suggestion as a note

17:16 Nov 12, 2008 

well I'd be interested to see your ideas, if you feel like running the gauntlet, that is ;-)

15:50 Nov 12, 2008 

aaaahhh! that's how i interpreted it first off, but then i hid my answer. if i put another one in i'll probably get into trouble with the moderators.

14:54 Nov 12, 2008 

As Mara points out, primo anno fuori corso is not a first year student. It's someone whose time is up - the three (or 4 or 5...) years which their course should last are over, but they haven't finished yet, so they have to enrol for the first year 'fuori corso'. They may still have exams to do, or maybe only the degree dissertation. But "first year of extra time" or something similar is, as Jim rightly observes, hardly Shakespeare. Anyone feeling more creative than me?

12:32 Nov 12, 2008 

yeah, mara, that's what i thought at first, but looking again at the orignal sentence and remembeing that my friend in bologna many years ago was "fuori corso" after her second year and couldn't proceed to third year until exams unsat exams had been taken i went for the other formula. otherwise the question woud have been "iscritto al terzo (or whatever) anno fuori corso" (i.e. http://www.google.it/search?hl=it&client=firefox-a&rls=org.m...

11:28 Nov 12, 2008 

I just wanted to point out that if you are enrolling/enrolled in your first year 'fuori corso' it doesn't mean that you are a first year student or freshman, but that you've finished your 3, 4, 5, or 6 years you had to study (according to the type of degree) and because you haven't finished all your exams you have to enrol again for another year, or more, to finish them before your thesis/final dissertation - so it could actually be your 4th, 5th, 6th or 7th year

10:06 Nov 12, 2008 

apologies to simon and to gad for my misunderstanding of the orignial sentence. for the strangest of reasons, and despite years of experience to the contrary, i interpreted "fuori corso" as the student having completed ALL courses of the degree and awaiting final examinations.