Students who enroll in a program that uses Turkish as the medium of instruction are required to take the English Exemption Exam at the beginning of the Fall Term of the academic year. Students are required to get a minimum score of 60-69 in order to be exempt from YDI1001 Foreign Language I (for Faculty of Education YDI 1011 Foreign Language I) and 70-100 out of 100 points in order to be exempt from YDI1001 Foreign Language I (for Faculty of Education YDI 1011 Foreign Language I) and YDI2001 Foreign Language II (for Faculty of Education YDI 2011 Foreign Language II). Students who do not get meet this requirement must take the courses, while those who are exempted will receive a letter grade of “A” on their transcript for each exemption.
It is not compulsory to take the English Exemption Exam. However, taking the exam is NECESSARY to be exempted from Foreign Language I and II courses. 
All the information about exam dates and procedures are announced at the beginning of each term on University website (www.iku.edu.tr). Students are required to follow all the announcements made by the university.
Please be advised that there is no make-up exam for the Exemption Exam. It is held only once at the beginning of the Fall term.
Both Foreign Language I and II are asynchronous courses. Students who are not exempted from Foreign Language courses   may access the presentations of the course and the related material using the “Resources” tab. Every week, a new source is added to Resources and students are expected to study and learn the lesson from these resources. Instructors can be contacted through Virtual Classes for any questions.

In each academic term there is one online Quiz worth 20 % of the grade and one Final Exam 80 % of the grade. In case of experiencing technical problems (i.e. power cut, internet outage, site-related issues) during online exams, it is mandatory to show evidence of the malfunction with a screenshot, video, etc. In this case, you must send an e-mail to the lecturer during the exam. 
Make-up exam for the quiz is held every semester. If students miss the quiz due to a valid excuse, a make-up exam will be provided. However,   students cannot retake the quiz if they have already taken it. Their previous grade is taken into consideration.

ENGLISH EXEMPTION EXAM PROCEDURES FOR DEPARTMENTS WITH TURKISH MEDIUM OF INSTRUCTION
    

• Students who enroll in a program that uses Turkish as the medium of instruction are required to take the English Exemption Exam at the beginning of the Fall Term of the academic year. 
• All the information about exam dates and procedures are announced at the beginning of each term on University website  (www.iku.edu.tr). Students are required to follow all the announcements made by the university.
• Students are required to get a minimum score of 60-69 in order to be exempt from Foreign Language I (for Faculty of Education YDI 1011 Foreign Language I) and 70-100 out of 100 points in order to be exempt from Foreign Language I (for Faculty of Education YDI 1011 Foreign Language I) and Foreign Language II (for Faculty of Education YDI 2011 Foreign Language II).
•  If a student is unable to sit an exam due to health reasons, they must ensure that their medical report is duly received and approved by the Department of Health, Culture, and Sports within three working days of the end of their illness. The approved report must then be forwarded to the School of Foreign Languages. It is important to note that only medical reports approved by the aforementioned department will be accepted. 
• The English Exemption Exam, including 25 structure, 15 vocabulary and 10 reading comprehension questions, consists of 50 multiple-choice questions at A2+ (CEFR Common European Framework of Reference Program) level. 
• The duration of the English Exemption Exam is 50 minutes.
• Students are required to have a soft pencil and a good eraser with them when they take the exam.
• Only the optical answer forms are evaluated, and any markings on the question booklets are not taken into account.
• It is the students' responsibility to fill in the optical answer form completely and correctly.
• Students can learn their exam results from the announcements section on CATS  (https://cats.iku.edu.tr/ )  or ORION ( https://orion.iku.edu.tr/ ) platform.