Enrolment test
Admission:
Admission to the Faculty of Visual Arts is preceded by the entrance exam for all the applicants. This exam assumes testing of applicants’ knowledge, abilities, and talents for visual arts. It consists of a general culture test, practical/oral test, and an interview.
The examination takes place in front of the three-member examination board of the Faculty of Visual Arts
Expected qualifications:
Applicants are expected to possess creativity and heightened ability of visual expression in a dynamic and persuasive way. They should be capable of analytical thinking and finding intelligent and original ways of solving problems. Their enthusiasm, research spirit, self-confidence, and self-criticism will be highly esteemed. Besides, applicants should demonstrate developed communication skills.
Presentation map:
Presentation map represents applicant’s free choice of a group of works of art whose aim is to demonstrate abilities of the applicant’s visual expression, his/her sensibility, as well as creativity. The map should present at least ten original works. For example: drawing, illustration, graphic works done into the free choice of techniques (from traditional to digital), photography, video-recording, and similar.
An insight into the map enables the board of examiners to form clearer appreciation of the applicant preferences and talents.
General culture test:
General culture test consists of questions from various fields, from art and culture to contemporary media technologies, including conceptions automatically associated with them, as well as a test of english language.
To enable their admission to the next level of the entrance exam, applicants must provide correct answers to at least 50% of questions in this test.
Practical/oral test:
This is the most important part of the test. Applicants are supposed to reply to the topic, the board of examiners provides, in the form of a drawing, painting, photo, video-record, and similar. This is, actually, another way to prove one’s talent as well as the authenticity of the works originally supplied.
The board of examiners will now analyse the applicants’ works, give their professional opinion and evaluation of the abilities presented. Applicants now pass to the final part of the entrance exam.
Interview:
Interview with the board of examiners provides closer insight into the applicant’s personality. Questions are directed at the applicant’s visual perception. At the same time, their cultural level and their interest in design through various media are being assessed, which logically helps the applicants’ argument on the choice of studies. This gives an overall impression of the applicants’ knowledge of culture and art, as well as of their intellectual and communication abilities.
After completion of the interview, the bard of examiners makes final assessment and the applicants’ rank-list.
Assessment:
The results achieved at the entrance exam are decisive for the admission at the Faculty of Visual Arts. In case of identical results, the applicants’ high-school accomplishments determine 25% of the final assessment of the entrance exam.
Foreign citizens have the same privileges as the residents of Montenegro.
Foreign citizens or persons who have submitted a foreign-degree validation application will be conditionally admitted in case the expected validation is not due before the application deadline.
In case a foreign-degree validation is rejected or it does not prove equivalent the major under concern, the admission will be revoked.
Foreign students will have the same status as the residents of Montenegro paying tuition fee.
General directions:
In case an applicant doesn’t take the final exam at due time or he / she lacks an appropriate identity document, their application will be considered renounced.
The Faculty’s information board as well as its web-sight will announce the applicants’ rank-list and the enrolment schedule.
All the applicants absent on the enrolment day will lose their admission rights.
