Examinations and Semester rankings

Exam dates and registration

The valid examination periods of the winter term 2024/25 are:
03.02.2025 - 15.03.2025
24.03.2025 - 26.04.2025

The valid examination periods of the summer term 2025 are:
21.07.2025 - 06.09.2025
15.09.2025 - 18.10.2025

The valid examination periods of the winter term 2025/26 are:
02.02.2026 - 14.03.2026
23.03.2026 - 18.04.2026 

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 If your request is approved, your grade will be changed to "Q - withdrawn for approved reasons".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.
The medical certificate must meet these requirements: Withdrawing

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. 

Extension and Suspension of Deadline for Credit Limits

Applications for extension / suspension

If, for valid reasons, you do not meet the study progress control set out in the APSO (§ 10) and in the FPSO for your degree program, the Examination Board may grant an extension or suspension of the deadline.

Difference between deadline extension/suspension (APSO § 10, para. 6a):

Deadline extension: Your study progress control is reduced by one semester for the duration of the entire degree program.

Example: You are in the third semester and are granted a deadline extension. This means that you only have to make the progress of the second semester in this semester. In the following, fourth semester, you must then complete the progress of the third semester, and so on.

Deadline suspension: Your study progress will only be not checked once.

Example: You are in the third semester and are given a deadline suspension. In this semester, you do not have to meet the study progress control. In the following, fourth semester, the study progress control of the fourth semester will be carried out again as normal.

Please note: A deadline extension/suspension can only be approved if you do not fulfill the study progress control (APSO § 10, para. 6a, sentence 1). Approval without actual necessity ("on reserve") is not possible.

The study progress control applicable to your degree program is regulated in the APSO (§ 10) and in the respective FPSO.

You will receive important information about your study progress with the Notification of Examination Results that you receive for each semester via TUMonline. We strongly recommend that you download and read it!

The Examination Board can only grant an extension/suspension of the deadline if reasons for which you are not responsible (= valid reasons) are immediately notified in writing and made credible. 

The application to the Examination Board must be accompanied by appropriate evidence, such as a medical certificate. The same requirements apply to the medical certificate as for withdrawing from an examination.

However, you can also send the relevant supporting documents to your Examination Board as a precautionary measure when the valid reasons arise with a request to take note of them, so that they are already available in the event of a problem and you can refer to them later.

Please be sure to speak to your student advisor before submitting the application.