Locating information
Questions answered by the right line: details, statements to check, sequences and words in context. Locating information is tested in the Reading comprehension section of the Bocconi Test, which has 11 of the 50 questions (75 minutes in total, 2027/28 format). This guide covers it in 4 lessons, each with the rule that solves it and a diagram.
Detail questions
“According to the passage…” asks for something stated. Find the key word, read the sentence and its neighbours, and choose the paraphrase; options that copy the text with one changed detail are traps.
True, NOT and EXCEPT questions
When the options are statements, check each one and mark it true, false or not stated. In NOT and EXCEPT questions the answer is the odd one out; absolute words often make a statement false.
Sequences of events
“Which sequence is correct?” asks for time order, not text order. Build a timeline from dates and time words, read the past perfect as earlier, and eliminate options from the first and the last event.
Words and expressions in context
The meaning asked is the meaning in that sentence, often not the dictionary one. Put each option in place of the expression and keep the one that leaves the sentence true to the passage.
What is the Bocconi Test format?
Online Bocconi Test for admission in academic year 2027/28, as published by Università Bocconi.
- Questions / time
- 50 / 75 minutes
- Distribution
- 24 mathematics · 11 reading · 6 numerical reasoning · 9 critical thinking
- Scoring
- +1 correct · 0 blank · −0.2 wrong
- Question languages
- English · Italian
- Three-option questions
- Some critical thinking questions have three options; a wrong answer there costs −0.33
- Minimum score
- Below 17 points the test is not considered for selection
- AI degree
- Mathematical and Computing Sciences for Artificial Intelligence also needs at least 11 of 24 points in mathematics
- Law test
- A separate test, 50 questions / 75 minutes: 5 mathematics · 11 reading · 6 numerical reasoning · 18 logic and critical thinking · 10 verbal reasoning; same scoring
Source: Università Bocconi, Online Bocconi Test page (checked October 7, 2026)
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