Luiss Test Practice Material: What You Get, When, and How to Prepare Before It Arrives

Search any student forum for Luiss test samples and you will find applicants asking strangers to send them practice material. The reason is how Luiss distributes it: almost all of the official material, the online mocks included, is reserved for candidates who have registered for the test. Here is how the material flows for 2027/28, what it is like, and how to prepare without waiting for it.

What Luiss provides, and when

From Luiss's preparation page, published for 2027/28 in late October 2026:

• For everyone, now: one 50-question practice paper as a PDF, in Italian and English, with a second copy that highlights the correct answers. It is the only official material you can use before registering.
• After you register for the test: five online mocks in Italian and English. Each can be taken up to three times, cannot be paused or printed, and needs 75 uninterrupted minutes; at the end you see your answers next to the correct ones. Alongside them come methodological notes, exercises with explanations and maths topics. The link arrives by email once you have registered, and access runs until 12 February 2027, ten days before the test window opens.
• Also for registered candidates: two live online strategy sessions on Webex (15 December in Italian, 16 December in English, with a February round still to be dated), and, once you have done the mocks, a 45-minute meeting with Luiss's guidance team.
• The platform rules and the sitting instructions (login, technical check, camera setup) come in the Regolamento e guida published for your cycle; the 2027/28 edition is not out yet. In 2026/27 the platform's technical checks were open until late the evening before the test, and Luiss strongly recommended running one, but did not make it a condition of sitting.

The structural problem is timing. Applications are open until 10 February, so many candidates register late, and if your preparation starts when the mocks unlock, it starts weeks before a sitting where every question is decided once.

How the official mocks compare to the real test

From applicants who took both, across recent sessions:

• Several described the real test as very similar to the official mocks. One found the mocks slightly harder than the real thing.
• Others found the real test harder in specific areas, reading questions in particular, while consistently describing the maths as easier than feared. One applicant: "the only part you don't need to worry about".
• One applicant who sat both tests called the Luiss Test "really similar to the Bocconi test". That matches the overlap in question families; see our comparison.
• The test is described as long rather than hard. 50 questions in 75 minutes is a pacing challenge before it is a difficulty challenge.

The official mocks are a good calibration tool. Do them under timed conditions when they arrive. But five tests is a measurement, not a preparation.

The free practice paper is worth an early look for a different reason: it shows the question types side by side. By our count it holds 16 maths questions, 10 "belief" questions (someone's belief, then a new fact: does it confirm the belief, contradict it, or change nothing?), 8 deductions, 5 reading passages, 5 statements to judge true, false or cannot-be-derived from a short passage, 4 chart and table questions and 2 word-relationship questions, mixed together rather than in sections. Two of those types have three options instead of four. It is one paper, not a published breakdown of the real test, but it tells you what to recognise on sight.

A preparation plan that does not wait

Months out: build the skills. Luiss describes the content in one sentence, and even that has moved: the 2025/26 regulations named logical-reasoning and psycho-aptitude questions, and mathematics was added from 2026/27. The families that follow from it, and that the free practice paper shows (logic and deductions, problem solving, numerical reasoning over charts and tables, reading and verbal reasoning, school-level maths), are what you can work on now. Work untimed first, family by family, until the patterns are familiar.

Weeks out: build the pacing. Switch to full-length 75-minute mocks under the real +1 / -0.25 / 0 scheme. You are training decision-making as much as knowledge: answer or leave blank, and then move on for good, because the real test's navigation only goes forward. Aim for consistent scores in your target zone (what that zone should be) across several consecutive mocks.

When the official material unlocks: use it to calibrate. Register early enough to use it: access ends on 12 February 2027. Sit each official mock under exact test conditions, and save the later attempts for after you have worked on what the first one exposed. If those scores match your practice scores, your preparation is calibrated. If they do not, you have found the gap while there is still time.

Test week: treat logistics as part of the test. Run the platform's technical check as soon as it opens: in 2026/27 it stayed available until late the evening before, and it is the cheapest way to discover that your webcam, microphone or screen sharing will not cooperate. Read your cycle's Regolamento e guida for how access works, because the model has changed between cycles: in 2026/27 candidates logged in on an assigned day at an assigned time, with 30 minutes from the start of their turn to get onto the platform. For 2027/28 you book the day and time yourself when you apply, within 22 to 26 February. Expect a room scan and an identity check before the test starts. If something goes wrong during it, the guide is specific about the channel: email the platform's support address given in your guide, as soon as the problem occurs, with your details and a screenshot of the whole screen. Reports that arrive more than 24 hours later, or through any other channel, are not considered, and the university itself handles none of them.

The one-pass logic

Everything above follows from one rule: inside the sitting you only move forward. No marking a question to come back to, no second pass, no filling in a blank you left behind. You get one sitting per session, the second session only reopens the courses with places left, and the ranking is built on the score you walk out with. The diagnostics have to happen in practice, before the day that counts.