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).

As soon as you meet the admission requirements for the thesis (these can be found in your implementation regulations; for Master's theses, any conditional examinations must also be successfully completed) and have discussed a suitable topic with your first supervisor, please register at the Examinations Office using the form"Application for admission to the thesis".

If you would like to write an external thesis, please also read the information on: "What do I have to consider when writing an external thesis".

Your application for admission will be checked as soon as possible at the Examinations Office.

If admission is possible, the thesis will be registered in the examination system and a separate form will be sent to your first assessor to inform them of the topic, submission deadline and second assessor.

Once the form has been received back from the institute, you will then receive the official letter of admission by email with all the important information (you should also read this urgently).

An "external" thesis is when the thesis is completed in a company.

If you are a student from the Mechanical/Process Engineering Study Commission, you must apply for an external thesis separately in advance. To do this, please submit the form"Application for the preparation of an external thesis by the Study Commission for Mechanical and Process Engineering" to the Examinations Office . You may only start your thesis once your application has been approved. Please also note that an external thesis (Bachelor's or Master's thesis) is only permitted once (see decisions of the Examination Board).

Students from other degree programs do not have to apply separately for an external thesis. In this case, it is sufficient to submit the"Application for Admission to Thesis".

Please note that external theses are generally assessed and evaluated by your two chosen TU Clausthal supervisors. This means that the supervisors assigned by the company cannot issue a grade. The supervisors must also have at least the qualification you are aiming for with your thesis (i.e. Bachelor's or Master's degree).

If you can provide evidence of valid reasons, you should first clarify with your first assessor whether they agree to an extension. If consent has been given, please submit an application for an extension to the Examinations Office.

If you are affected by the maximum duration of study, please clarify this immediately with your administrator at the Examinations Office to find out what options are available in your case.

Please submit the following form immediately (but no later than 1 week after the certificate has been issued):"Withdrawal for health reasons / Medical certificate for students (from WS 2022/2023)" to the Examinations Office.

The Examination Board will check whether and to what extent the period of illness (taking into account the symptoms) can be counted towards the extension of the submission deadline.

Please note that illnesses claimed retroactivelycannot be taken into account!

Illnesses shortly before the submission deadline cannot usually be taken into account either. In such cases, please contact your examination office directly.

Once you have completed your thesis, please take care of the binding work. You can arrange for your thesis to be bound in Clausthal-Zellerfeld, e.g. at ASTA, Papierflieger or Papierflitzer. Of course, you can also use any other provider.

You can find out how many bound copies of your thesis you need to submit to the Examination Office in your letter of admission (or Appendix 1 of the letter).

You can submit the bound version(s) of your thesis to the Examinations Office during office hours or by prior appointment. Please also bring the completed supplementary sheet with you for submission. Please arrange appointments in advance by telephone or e-mail with the Examinations Office.

If possible, you should also send the digital version of your thesis (PDF format) via Cryptshare to the following recipients shortly before submitting it to the Examinations Office:
First assessor, second assessor and Examinations Office(pruefungsamt@tu-clausthal.de).

If you send the thesis by post, please use the following address:

Examination Office of Clausthal University of Technology
Adolph-Roemer-Straße 2a
38678 Clausthal-Zellerfeld.

Please keep the proof of posting as proof of timely dispatch (no later than the submission deadline).

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.