FAQs

All oral and written examinations must be registered via the online examination system (study portal). In the case of oral examinations, please inform your responsible administrator by e-mail of the specific date, stating your personal data (matriculation number, name, course of study, examination, examiner).

It is not possible to register online for the examination of the requirements, but only by using the form. This must be submitted to the examination office at least 2 weeks before the examination date.

At present, only examinations (online), oral examinations (online and registration at the examination office) and the final thesis (by form) have to be registered.

Certificates of achievement only have to be registered in the examination system if they have to be taken in the form of a written or oral examination.

These services are to be registered via StudIP. or institute. Please note the individual regulations and deadlines of the institutes. After completion of the course, collection lists will be sent to the examination office for booking the services.

In these cases, please also register in due time using the form "Antrag auf Zulassung zu Prüfungen". Especially in the months of April/May and October/November, the online exam registration is temporarily not available due to system or exam period changes. Oral examinations in particular must then be registered exclusively using the above-mentioned form in the Examinations Office.

To meet the deadline, send an e-mail to the examination office immediately or submit the form "Application for Admission to Examinations" directly. Please also describe the problems so that we can adjust this for future applications if necessary.

As a rule, homework certificates, internships, etc. are missing here. In these cases, please also register by the deadline using the form and note "missing homework" or clarify directly at the institute whether you have successfully acquired the preliminary work.

Yes - once a homework certificate has been acquired, it remains valid as an admission requirement. However, if bonus points are awarded by the institute, these are usually only taken into account in the immediately following examination. Please ask the responsible institute for the exact regulations!

Please contact the Rechenzentrum.

Please contact the examination office immediately by e-mail pruefungsamt@tu-clausthal.de. You will immediately receive an emergency TAN to your TU email address.

It is your responsibility to register or deregister in good time. This also includes that you get a new password or a new TAN list (see above) in time, if necessary, so that you can carry out the online exam registration or deregistration. Late registrations or deregistrations for these reasons cannot be considered!

If the deadline expires, send an e-mail to the examination office as a precautionary measure to meet the deadline.

Yes, you can deregister up to one week before the exam. This is usually possible via the examination system.

Examinations must be cancelled via the online examination system (study portal).

Immediately consult a doctor and submit the form "Withdrawal for health reasons / Medical certificate for students (from WS 2022/2023)"to the examination office no later than one week after the examination date.

Simply certificates of incapacity for work, prescriptions etc. will no longer be accepted!

Please do not write the exam in any case, as a subsequent withdrawal is excluded!

Yes, because doctors are generally not allowed to issue certificates retroactively. If you were taken ill directly on Friday afternoon or Saturday, you would have to contact the family doctor's emergency service.

For each subject examination one has three examination attempts. This applies in particular to conditional and additional examinations, as no free attempts are granted for these examinations. For examinations (compulsory and elective examinations), each first attempt within the standard period of study of a bachelor's or master's degree program is counted as a free attempt. Please refer to the General Examination Regulations for the exact regulations.

Partial module examinations or module examinations that are taken for the first time during the standard period of study are considered as free attempts. If this is passed, you may also have the option of improving your grade.

Grade improvements are only possible if free attempts are passed (indicator: FBE = free attempt passed) in a maximum of 6 subjects.

No, the better grade remains in any case.

As a rule, the free attempt for grade improvement must be completed at the latest in the semester in which you complete the last performance relevant to your studies (usually thesis and colloquium). If you have already submitted the final thesis, please register for the grade improvement in good time so that the final documents, if applicable, are not issued until after the grade improvement.

Yes - but this is only possible up to one week before the exam.

In urgent cases, it may be necessary on the part of the examiner to postpone an appointment. In this case, the institute or the examiner must inform the examination office. Otherwise, the examination will be graded as "failed".

As a rule, no benefits are possible. More details can be found in the matriculation regulations of the Clausthal University of Technology.

Exceptions may be possible in the following cases:

Leave of absence for the purpose of studying abroad - due to the overlap of examination periods, you may complete work at Clausthal University of Technology in the semester on leave of absence up to a maximum of 12 credit points (new as of WS 21/22).

Leave of absence for health reasons - in these cases it is advisable to seek advice from the examination office.

Please note that during the leave of absence you can only register for study and examination achievements by means of a form in the examination office. The application for admission to the examination is at the same time the application for exemption.

If you would like to apply for a transfer of an identical course and examination achievement within the TU Clausthal, please submit the corresponding form"Antrag auf Übertragung von an der TUC erbrachten Leistungen".

The recognition procedure is described in detail here. You will also find all the necessary forms.

Due to performance assessments or preparation of prognosis certificates, recognition must be applied for no later than two sem esters after enrollmentor, in the case of semesters abroad, two semesters after the performance was achieved .

In addition, recognition is excluded if the examination was passed in a free attempt or if the registration for the 1st attempt was made at Clausthal University of Technology.

Yes - however, these must be registered by form in all study programs. Additional examinations can only be subjects that are not specified as compulsory or elective subjects in the relevant degree programs for which students are enrolled. This also applies to consecutive degree programs.

In order to avoid queries, it is helpful if you note on the application that it is an additional examination (ZP) or ask in advance at the examination office.

Yes, the rule applies here that study or examination achievements up to a maximum of 24 credit points (all course forms apply here - i.e. also internships and seminars, etc.) from a consecutive Master's degree program can be brought forward.

Registration for these examinations is only possible using the form "Antrag auf Zulassung zu Prüfungen". Please note that it is an early Master's examination (vzML).

Please use only your TU e-mail address to contact us. We also send info about studies, queries about registration or refusal of examination admissions via the TU e-mail addresses, so you are obliged to check this account regularly.

Please submit the following form immediately (no later than one week after sick leave): "Withdrawal for health reasons / Medical certificate for students (from WS 2022/2023)". in the examination office.

The examination board will check whether and to what extent the time of illness can be counted towards the extension of the submission deadline, if applicable.

If you can show good cause, first check with your first examiner whether you have permission for an extension. If you have the agreement, please submit an application for an extension to the examination office.