Bocconi undergraduate test or Bocconi Law test: which one to take

Two tests, one format

Bocconi runs two online admission tests for its bachelor and Law programmes: the standard Online Bocconi Test and the Online Bocconi Test – Law. They share everything about how they are taken:

• 50 single-answer questions in 75 minutes, in one block with no break;
• three questions per screen, and no way back once you press Next;
• +1 for a correct answer, 0 for a blank, −0.2 for a wrong answer (−0.33 on critical-thinking questions with three options);
• a total below 17 out of 50 means you are not considered in the selection;
• taken at home, online, under recorded proctoring, in Italian or English.

What differs is what they test, and which programmes they open.

Which programmes each test is valid for

According to Bocconi, the standard test is valid for every programme, Law included, while the Law test "can only be used to apply for programs in the legal area": the Law School programmes. If you want to keep any non-Law programme open, including applying to Law and to economics in the same year, the standard test is the one that covers both.

The tests are separate: each is booked and paid for on its own (€60 per attempt), and you may take up to four attempts per test type in an academic year.

How the 50 questions are split

Area	Standard test	Law test
Mathematics	24	5
Reading comprehension	11	11
Numerical reasoning	6	6
Critical thinking	9	—
Logic and critical thinking	—	18
Verbal reasoning	—	10

The standard test is a mathematics test first: nearly half its questions, on a syllabus that runs from algebra and functions to probability and statistics, all without a calculator. The Law test keeps only five mathematics questions, on a narrower list, and gives most of its weight to reasoning: rules and conditions, what follows from a text and what does not, and the structure of arguments.

What does not change

Admission to the Law School programmes uses the same ranking as the other programmes: the test counts 55% and your third-last and second-last year school grades 45%. Bocconi publishes no admission cut-off for either test, only the 17-point floor. For Law, an LSAT score of at least 147 is accepted instead of the Bocconi test; for every programme, so are SAT and ACT scores above Bocconi's published minimums.

How to choose (our advice)

This part is our view, not Bocconi's.

• Applying only to Law School programmes? Compare yourself on the two mixes. If mathematics is your weak point, the Law test puts far less weight on it.
• Applying to anything else as well? Take the standard test; the Law test cannot be used for other programmes.
• Unsure? Take a short diagnostic for each before you book. The one that shows fewer weak areas is usually the better bet, but the deciding rule is still which programmes you want.

Practise either test

Our Bocconi Online Test preparation page covers both tests, with separate question banks, a free test for each, and timed 50-question sets under the rules above.