The Luiss Admission Test: Complete Guide (2027/28)

The information about the Luiss Test is real but spread across several Luiss pages: one paragraph on the admissions page, a scoring detail in a FAQ, dates in an infographic. This guide puts it in one place. It is based on Luiss's own published pages, and it says clearly which details Luiss has not published yet.

Updated 27 October 2026 for the 2027/28 admission notice (bando), which Luiss published on 23 October. The detailed test regulations (the Regolamento e guida) for 2027/28 are not out yet: where this guide still relies on the 2026/27 edition, it says so.

What the test is

The Luiss Test is one of the admission routes to Luiss's bachelor programs and the single-cycle Master's degree in Law, for EU/Schengen citizens. It is not the only one: candidates holding a qualifying international certification (SAT 1,200/1,600, LSAT 160/180 or ACT 25/36, each issued within the last three years, or an IB Diploma or predicted grade of 36/45) can be admitted directly, without sitting it, if they apply by 24 March 2027. There is a separate selection for non-EU candidates, and an anticipated test attached to Luiss's Orientation 4 Summer School.

You take the test online, from home, on Luiss's platform, with live proctoring and audio-video monitoring.

The format: 50 multiple-choice questions in 75 minutes, one answer selected per question. That is the 2026/27 Regolamento e guida, and Luiss's 2027/28 practice mocks keep the same 50 questions and 75 minutes. Luiss describes the questions as psycho-aptitude questions inspired by the SAT model, testing logical reasoning, problem solving and mathematical skills.

One format detail shapes the whole sitting: navigation is sequential. You move forward only, and once the page changes you cannot go back, neither to change an answer nor to complete one you left blank. What you skip stays blank.

Two rules shape how you should approach it:

• The ranking is built on the test. The 2027/28 admission notice determines admission exclusively by the Luiss Test score, plus a bonus of 3 or 5 points for Luiss Foundation Programme students: ranked by score, per degree course, admitted in that order until the places run out. School grades do not enter it.
• You apply for one degree course, and the test language follows it: Italian for Italian-taught courses, English for English-taught ones. You can change the course by email until 10 February 2027; after that it is binding.
• You sit the test once per session. The notice allows one sitting, for one course. If February does not work out, the second session (applications by 10 May 2027) is open only for the courses that still have places.

What "psycho-aptitude" means

It is not a personality test. In Italian admissions language, psico-attitudinale means aptitude reasoning: the standard question families of reasoning tests.

• Deductions and syllogisms: what follows from given statements, and what does not
• Verbal reasoning: arguments, assumptions, what strengthens or weakens a claim
• Numerical reasoning: quantities, percentages, data in tables and charts
• Problem solving: multi-step puzzles with rates, orderings and constraints
• Mathematics: school-level maths, applied quickly

Luiss publishes no per-section question breakdown for the real test, no per-area question counts and no section order, and the 2027/28 admission notice adds none. Third-party sites publish claimed breakdowns, but we cannot verify them against an official source, so we do not repeat them.

What Luiss does publish now is one free, 50-question practice paper, open to anyone on its preparation page. It is a single paper, not a promise about the real test, but it is the best official picture of the question types. By our count it holds 16 maths questions, 10 "belief" questions, 8 deductions, 5 reading passages with four options, 5 statements to judge against a short passage (true, false, or cannot be derived), 4 chart and table questions and 2 word-relationship questions (an analogy and an odd one out), all mixed together rather than grouped into sections. The belief question is the unusual one: you read what someone believes, then a new piece of information, and decide whether it confirms the belief, contradicts it or has no bearing on it. Like the true/false/cannot-say items, it has three options instead of four.

Scoring: +1 / -0.25 / 0, and no minimum to clear

From the Regolamento e guida for the online test, and Luiss's FAQ:

• +1 for each correct answer
• -0.25 for each wrong answer
• 0 for blank answers

There is no fixed minimum score. Luiss's FAQ says so directly, the 2027/28 admission notice states none, and the FAQ explains what stands in its place: candidates are ranked by score, per degree course, and admitted in that order until the course's places run out. The one published threshold, 60/100, belongs to the anticipated test Luiss runs for its Orientation 4 Summer School, a separate route with its own notice. Results are reported on a 100-point scale, and Luiss does not publish how the 50-question raw score converts to it, so we do not convert.

The -0.25 penalty changes how you should answer. We cover the decision rules in how the Luiss Test is scored.

English or Italian?

The test language follows your degree course. Italian-taught courses (Economics and Management, Law, Political Science) use an Italian test. English-taught courses (Business Administration, Economics and Business, Global Law, Management and Artificial Intelligence, Politics: Philosophy and Economics) use an English test.

Luiss's general FAQ still says the English test gives access to every course, English- or Italian-taught. That describes the Summer School route, where you choose the test language rather than a course. For the regular sessions the 2027/28 admission notice is unambiguous: the course you name decides the language of your paper, and admission is to that course only. Choose the course first, then prepare in its language.

Dates, fees and deadlines for 2027/28

First session, EU/Schengen candidates:

Stage	Date
Applications	open now, until 10 February 2027
Test, on the day and time you book	22 to 26 February 2027
Results	second half of April 2027
Book your place (pay the first instalment)	by 4 May 2027
Complete enrolment	by 22 July 2027

The participation fee is 150 euros, paid online before you submit, and non-refundable. Booking your place means paying 5,000 euros, the first instalment of the 15,000-euro annual fee for 2027/28, also non-refundable; miss the 4 May deadline and the admission lapses. Results arrive only about two weeks before it.

A second session follows, with applications from April to 10 May 2027, open only for the degree courses that still have places after the first. Its test dates are not published yet. Candidates applying with a certification instead of the test have until 24 March 2027. Non-EU candidates apply by 10 February 2027 to a separate selection, with the test on the same 22 to 26 February dates. Luiss also runs an early-admission route through its summer school, with its own test and timeline.

How to prepare

Three points follow from the rules above.

1. Train the format, not just the content. 50 questions in 75 minutes is 90 seconds per question on average. Pacing under that clock is a skill you can build.
2. Train under the real scoring. Knowing when to answer and when to leave a question blank at -0.25 per miss is worth real points.
3. Use the official material, and start before it. Luiss's free practice paper is open to anyone now, and registering for the test unlocks five online mocks (each can be taken up to three times, until 12 February 2027) plus explained exercises. Five mocks are a measurement more than a preparation, so build the skills first and use them to calibrate. More on that in Luiss Test practice material.