Important updates regarding the EQE

We, EQE candidates have received great news about the upcoming EQE today:

• Paper C and D will be 6 hours long.

• Paper C and D will be split into parts with official breaks in between. (Regarding Paper A and B, there is no change.)

• Pre-examination will be split into 4 parts with three breaks in between. The length of the exam is 4x70 minutes, thus 4 hrs. 40 minutes.

• There is information available about which parts of the exam can be printed. Check the information for each exam here.
  See information about the Paper A here.
  See information about the Paper B here.
  See information about the Paper C here.
  See information about the Paper D here.

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Furthermore, the schedule for 2021 is available. The main exams will start at 9:30 CET each day.

Pre-examination
1 March 2021, Monday

Paper D
2 March 2021, Tuesday

Paper A
3 March 2021, Wednesday

Paper B
4 March 2021, Thursday

Paper C
5 March 2021, Friday

I have also updated my article about the online EQE accordingly.

See the EPO’s official notification here.