Curriculum Financial and Business Management
First Cycle Degree/Bachelor in Business Economics

What are OFA (Additional Learning Requirements) and how to fulfil them

OFA - Additional Learning Requirements

In order to detect possible lacks in the subject Mathematics, additional learning requirements (known by the Italian acronym OFA - Obblighi Formativi Aggiuntivi) could be assigned.

Although TOLC-E test is not compulsory as admission procedure, all applicants to FINMA programme shall be aware that:

- based on TOLC-E results in the Mathematics section, students will be NOT given Additional Learning Requirements in case of grading higher or equal than 3,5. 

If students miss to sit TOLC-E test, they will be required to sit the OFA test that is scheduled in the first two weeks of Mathematics lectures (October-November).

Also based on SAT results in the Mathematics section students will be NOT given Additional Learning Requirements in case of grading higher or equal than 400.

Students possessing one or both certificates with the scores indicated can sen them to cdl.finma@unibo.it

Starting from the a. y. 2025/2026 the OFA requirement is otherwise fulfilled by passing the specific OFA test, for which 4 exam dates will be set (October-November, December, February-March, June).

OFA lessons freshmen students

Online on Teams

  1. Friday 3 October 2025, 4-7 pm 
  2. Friday 10 October, 4- 7 pm
  3. Friday 17 October, 4- 7 pm
  4. Friday 20 February 2026, 4- 7 pm
  5. Friday 27 February, 4 - 7 pm
  6. Friday 6 March, 3 - 5 pm

OFA test freshmen students 

Friday 24 October, 5- 7 pm

Friday 21 November, 5- 7 pm

Friday 12 December , 5- 7 pm

Friday 16 January 2026, 3-5 pm

Friday 13 February, 3-5 pm

Friday 13 March, 3-5 pm

Friday 17 April, 3-5 pm

Friday 5 June, 3-5 pm

Wednesday 1 July, 3 - 5 pm