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DIGISOC Admission Test: everything you need to know

The Joint Master’s Programme DIGISOC is open to 90 well-motivated and qualified candidates. Fairness and equal opportunities of access for all candidates will be ensured through a selection procedure based on an online supervised test.
The Admission Test will be conducted online on July 2, 2025, and it will evaluate candidates’ critical thinking skills, defined as the ability to thoroughly analyze written and visual information, interpret its meaning, and draw logical conclusions.

 

The test will have a duration of 75 minutes and will consist of 80 multiple-choice questions, each with four answer options, only one of which is correct. The admission test will be assessed according to the following criteria:

  • ­1 point for each correct answer;
  • – 0.25 points for each incorrect answer;
  • ­0 points for each unanswered question.

 

General guidelines regarding the Admission Test are available in the  Call for Application and its Annexes.

More in detail, the indicators of critical thinking skills which will underlie the test items are:

 

  • Making Inferences: Candidates will be provided with written or visual information. A subsequent list of possible inferences will follow, and candidates will be asked to rate if they are true, false, possibly true, possibly false or whether it is not possible to say it based on the information in the passage.
  • Recognizing Assumptions: Candidates will have to decide if an assumption has been made in making the statement. An assumption is something someone effectively takes for granted. The candidate will have to select whether an assumption has or has not been made.
  • Making Deductions: Candidates will be provided with written or visual information and will need to evaluate a list of deductions made based on that information. The candidate must select which deductions follow and which do not follow.
  • Interpreting Information: Candidates will be provided with written or visual information and a list of related possible conclusions. Candidates will need to interpret the information and decide if each conclusion follows based on the presented information. The decisions must solely be based on the information given.
  • Analyzing and Evaluating the Argument: Candidates will be provided with a written and/or visual information and a list of arguments about the information presented. The candidate will need to assess if each argument is strong or weak. The argument is considered to be strong if it directly relates to the statement and weak if it is not directly related to the statement (Watson & Glaser, 2002).

 

All the written and visual information used to prepare the test will be drawn from the following list of readings.

All the readings present and discuss issues, topics, transformations, challenges and problems connected with the three key pillars of the DIGISOC Joint Master’s Programme: the rise of the digital society and the challenges for social innovation and global citizenship in the context of the digital society.

Readings