Sancar Edis, RBünyamin Edis, E2024-07-182024-07-181300-70092147-5881http://akademikarsiv.cbu.edu.tr:4000/handle/123456789/1668In the faculties or departments of universities, preparing the examination timetables takes quite a long time, and often could not satisfy neither the students nor the instructors or managers. In this study, the final exam timetabling problem of a department of a university is considered. For the problem, in the first stage, the exams are classified into the groups according to their difficulty levels by an integer programming model. In the second stage, an integer programming model is proposed in order to find an exam timetable which will increase the concentration and study efficiency of the students. In the model, the number of students taking more than one exam on the same day is minimized by weighting the difficulty levels of the relevant exams. The proposed solution approach is applied by using a real data set of a semester. By comparing the exam timetable obtained with the schedule prepared by hand, the advantages of the proposed solution approach are presented.TurkishINTEGER PROGRAMMING APPROACHMODELArticle