Examination Procedures

Teacher Education Programs

  • Bachelor’s (B.Ed.) and master’s (M.Ed.) programs in Teacher Education
  • M.Ed. extension subject in Teacher Education
  • State examination programs in Teacher Education (GymPO I)

This page provides you with information on exam registration, late registration, withdrawal, and de-registration, as well as resitting exams. Please refer to the non-official versions of the examination regulations for more details.

These regulations currently apply to all subjects in the teacher education programs as well as to Education Sciences.


Exam registration
You need to register for all exams. It is each student’s responsibility to register for their first examination attempt by the end of the applicable registration period via Portal². You often have the option to take your written exam either on the regular or the alternate examination date. Should you register for the alternate examination date, please bear in mind that in most cases, you will have to wait a year until you can resit the exam in the event that you fail or do not take the exam.

You are required to register for every examination. This does not only include written exams, but also courses in which your assessment is based on term papers, presentations, or similar. If you do not register for an examination, we cannot enter any ECTS credits or grades into your records. For term papers and other coursework and examinations, you need to register by the end of the general registration period via the student portal. For examinations that are not taken in the form of a written exam, and for foreign language skills courses taken in Romance Studies, you can only register for the regular examination date.

Late registration
Late registration for an exam (either for the regular or alternate examination date, provided this is an option for the exam in question) is possible up to three days prior to the respective examination date via Portal². For examinations that are not written exams, the deadline for late registration expires on 27 May 2024. Please observe the applicable deadlines to ensure that your examinations can be scheduled without overlaps.

Change in registration
Students may change their registration for written exams from the regular to the alternate examination date or vice versa up to three days prior to the regular examination date (provided this is an option for the exam in question) via Portal².
In order to make a change in registration please first withdraw from the respective exam in Portal² and then register again for the desired date. For more detailed information, please see instructions.

After this period, it is no longer possible to withdraw from the exam. It is then only possible to request to be de-registered from the exam provided that you have a valid reason such as illness (see further information on de-registering from an exam).

Resitting an exam
If you fail a (written) exam on the regular examination date or are unable to take an exam you are registered for due to a valid reason, you will be registered to retake the exam on the alternate examination date of the semester in question by way of mandatory registration, provided you have further examination attempts left for the respective exam.

If you would like to retake the exam in question in a subsequent semester, mandatory registration is not possible; instead, you will have to register again on your own responsibility for the respective examination date in the desired semester. This also applies to examinations not taken in the form of a written exam. In these cases, you are required to sign up for a new course at the earliest opportunity and to register for the respective exam yourself.

Further information on examination procedures

Exam registration not possible

In case you cannot register for an exam via Portal², please send an e-mail stating your name, student ID number, and the title of the exam to your Student Services advisor.

Overlapping exams

We will make sure that none of your exams overlap. Only if you register in due time, we can ensure that your exams are scheduled without overlaps: Examinations at the regular examination date must be registered by the last day of the general examination period and examinations at the alternate examination date must be registered by 24 July 2024.

De-registration due to illness

Should you be unable to sit an exam due to illness, you need to submit a medical certificate and the application for de-registration due to valid reasons to Student Services immediately.

De-registration due to a semester abroad

To find out out what to do if you are unable to sit a mandatory exam or any other exam you are registered for due to a semester abroad, please read the information on de-registration from an exam.

Failure with no option to resit

Please note that the number of possible examination attempts is limited in all programs. Please find all information on the number of attempts in the respective examination regulations of your program. Once you have used up all your attempts, the final exam will be graded as failed with no option to resit.

Disenrollment

Please bear in mind that ongoing examination processes will not automatically be terminated when you disenroll.

Contact

Express Service

Express Service

Jessica Cariola-Nicolei, Thomas Keil, Kirsten Maurer, Sharon Rübel
University of Mannheim
Dezernat II – Express-Service L 1, 1
68161 Mannheim
Individual consultation appointments

If you have specific questions that you would like to discuss individually, please do not hesitate to consult your Student Services advisor.