Exam dates and registration
The valid examination periods of the winter term 2023/24 are:
05.02. - 16.03.2024
25.03. - 20.04.2024
The valid examination periods of the summer term 2024 are:
15.07. - 17.09.2024
23.09. - 19.10.2024
Please note that different examination periods may apply for degree programmes at the TUM School of Life Sciences. Please inform yourself about your examination dates in TUMonline.
TUM deadlines for exam administration:
https://portal.mytum.de/studium/intern/fristen/document_view?
For the individual examinations and repeat examinations, you usually must register or deregister yourself, if you decide not to take an examination. You can only register and deregister via TUMonline. How this works is explained in this video.
Please note that there is a fixed registration and deregistration period per exam in TUMonline. This period is also displayed in TUMonline at the corresponding exam information. If you have not registered within this period, you are not entitled to take the exam.
Exception: If you are enrolled in a Bachelor program with basic and orientation exams (GOP), you will be automatically registered for all GOP exams of the respective semester in accordance with your FPSO. An independent registration is not necessary for GOP exams.
Nevertheless, please check whether you have been registered correctly for all examinations.
Withdrawal from examination
If you are unable to attend an examination, the examiners will initially enter "5.0 - did not attend" as your grade. In this case, you must immediately submit a written withdrawal request to the Campus Office (not to the Graduation Office and Academic Records and not to the examiner themselves). Your request will then be forwarded to the examination board of your study program. If your request is approved, your grade will be changed to "Q - withdrawn for approved reasons". This process usually takes about 4 weeks.
In the withdrawal request you have to explain why you were not able to take the exam. In addition you have to enclose proof, for example a medical certificate. This must be based on a medical check-up that took place on the day you want to claim the inability to take the exam. Please note the information in the application and the legal regulations in § 13 Abs. 2 ADPO or § 10 Abs. 7 APSO.
Please send the (electronically) completed and signed form by mail to: withdrawal.co(at)ls.tum.de
Please keep the original certificate. In individual cases, we reserve the right to request it.
Prolongation and Suspension of Deadline for Credit Limits
Applications for prolongation / suspension
Please always submit only after consultation with the student advisory service.
Semester rankings at the TUM School of Life Sciences
In addition to the ECTS grading table, which can only be issued at the end of the degree program, students at the TUM School of Life Sciences can receive a semester ranking.
The CST Graduation Office also issues the "Grading Table" with the graduation documents, in which the overall grade and rating are set in relation to the graduates of the past two years (bilingual). The grading table has its own page header and is numbered separately. It is not referenced on the other documents.
From summer semester 2024, students will be able to download a semester ranking as a digital document in the "Rankings" application of Digital School Services from around mid-June or mid-December. Please log in to the Digital School Services with your TUMonline data.
If you require a ranking on paper with a stamp and signature, please contact the Examinations Team (ranking.co@ls.tum.de). Please note that a ranking can only be issued once all examinations for the semester in question have been completed. Semester rankings for the summer semester are therefore usually available in mid-November at the earliest and those for the winter semester usually in mid-June at the earliest.
Please note that a semester ranking can only be issued within the standard period of study (BSc = 6 FS, MSc = 4 FS, Diplom-Braumeister = 7 FS)
Definition Semester rankings and Ranking procedure
Semester rankings show where you stand in comparison to your fellow students in your current semester and what percentage of the best in your cohort you are in. When calculating the ranking, it is assumed that you have completed the normal study progress of 30 CPs per semester; all credits taken that are not enough are weighted with a grade of 4.1 in the ranking calculation.
The credit-weighted average of the graded examination results from the modules taken into account and passed is determined as the ranking parameter. If the target credits were not achieved in the semester in the modules taken into account, the missing credits are taken into account in the ranking parameter with the fictitious grade 4.1.
All students who were enrolled or on leave of absence in the semester in question are taken into account.
Candidates who have entered a final fail (EN) in TUMonline cannot receive a semester ranking.