FAQ — Exams

If you are in quar­an­tine and there­fore can­not take part in an atten­dance exam­i­na­tion, this is con­sid­ered an excused with­draw­al, just as in the case of sick leave. In the case of quar­an­tine, please report to the respon­si­ble exam­in­er as well as to the respon­si­ble per­son in the Exam­i­na­tion Office at the Aca­d­e­m­ic Depart­ment. The offi­cial doc­u­ment (from the health office) request­ing quar­an­tine is valid as proof. 

The uni­ver­si­ty under­stands by “online exam­i­na­tion” that writ­ing a writ­ten exam under video surveillance.

Already now, oral online exams, online pre­sen­ta­tions or home­work can be completed.

Oth­er col­leges or uni­ver­si­ties may use the term “online exams” differently.

We don’t know that yet.

No, you will be auto­mat­i­cal­ly reg­is­tered for the exams you did not pass in May. Here it is impor­tant to dereg­is­ter if you failed the exam in SoSe 21. NOT want to repeat.

The uni­ver­si­ty offers online exams for this purpose.

Requests for changes in the form of exam­i­na­tions are made by agree­ment between stu­dents and lec­tur­ers and are sub­mit­ted to the indi­vid­ual exam­i­na­tion board for approval. This is thus resolved on a fac­ul­ty-spe­cif­ic basis. 

No, lec­tur­ers are gen­er­al­ly not oblig­ed to offer an alter­na­tive form of exam­i­na­tion. If there is a case of hard­ship, the exam­in­er must cre­ate an alter­na­tive with­in the frame­work of the hard­ship reg­u­la­tion. For this pur­pose, it is nec­es­sary for the stu­dents to con­tact the exam­in­er or the exam­i­na­tion board. 

No, the deci­sion does not lie with the lec­tur­ers, but with the exam­i­na­tion board. A change of the exam­i­na­tion form is not pos­si­ble for January/February. For the exams in May, how­ev­er, a change of the exam­i­na­tion form can be approved by the exam­i­na­tion board. 

Yes, excep­tions can be made. Please refer to the hard­ship reg­u­la­tions.  
If you do not write your the­sis in the Heil­bronn area, the hard­ship reg­u­la­tion can def­i­nite­ly be applied and an alter­na­tive exam can be set. For this pur­pose, please con­tact your exam­i­na­tion board. 

Yes, the lec­tur­ers can sub­mit an appli­ca­tion to the exam­i­na­tion board to change the form of the exam­i­na­tion for the May exam­i­na­tion peri­od, but ulti­mate­ly the deci­sion to change the form does not lie with the lec­tur­er, but with the exam­i­na­tion board, so that you could get a term paper approved. Please note that the change of the exam­i­na­tion form applies to all stu­dents of the course.

Until the announce­ment of the dates, the uni­ver­si­ty teach­ers can make a change in the form of the exam­i­na­tion. In order to avoid irri­ta­tion, the exam­i­na­tion sched­ule will only be put online after the deadline.

We regret this over­lap, of course, but no con­sid­er­a­tion can be giv­en in this regard, as the exams can­not be pushed back any fur­ther. How­ev­er, this is also a fun­da­men­tal prob­lem that schools (high schools, etc.) have. There, too, no con­sid­er­a­tion can be tak­en for Ramadan.

No, the reg­is­tra­tion peri­od for SoSe21 remains as planned (April 16 to May 3).

An exten­sion of the exam­i­na­tion peri­od in SoSe21 will prob­a­bly not be pos­si­ble, a post­pone­ment by one week would be more con­ceiv­able, but both are sub­ject to the deci­sion of the Senate. 

This is instruc­tor- or event-spe­cif­ic and can­not be said for all events. Basi­cal­ly, the qual­i­ty of the events must be maintained. 

Yes, the reg­u­la­tions that exam­i­na­tions must be com­plet­ed before­hand have been sus­pend­ed for SoSe21. You do not have to apply for a hard­ship case (see hard­ship case reg­u­la­tion point 4). An exam­ple of this would be if, for exam­ple, Math 1 has to be com­plet­ed before Math 2.

The exams in May count as exams for WiSe20/21, there­fore they can be repeat­ed in SoSe21. The uni­ver­si­ty takes over the failed attempts auto­mat­i­cal­ly for the exams of SoSe21. If stu­dents do not wish to attempt an exam in SoSe21, then they can opt out of the exams.

Yes, can­cel­la­tions are pos­si­ble up to 4 days before the indi­vid­ual exam. 

• A sub­se­quent reg­is­tra­tion for the exam­i­na­tion achieve­ments e.g. in WiSe 20/21 was only pos­si­ble until March 8, 2021 with­out a fee. 
• The fees amount to 10 € per exam. The max­i­mum amount is 40 €. 
• Sub­se­quent reg­is­tra­tion is only pos­si­ble if the exam­i­na­tion per­for­mance has not yet begun.
• The dates for the reg­is­tra­tion peri­od can be found in each semester’s sched­ule: https://www.hs-heilbronn.de/semesterterminplan

The free attempt pol­i­cy has been extend­ed through SoSe 21. For more infor­ma­tion, please refer to the Coro­na Bylaws.

All exams must be offered every semes­ter. If you have not passed the exam­i­na­tions in such a sub­ject, we rec­om­mend that you con­tact the respec­tive uni­ver­si­ty lec­tur­er to let them know that you would like to repeat the examination.

• Yes, in this exam­ple you can write the exams again in July. You would be auto­mat­i­cal­ly reg­is­tered for the July exams if you had not passed the May exams.
• The Coro­na Bylaws cur­rent­ly reg­u­late what hap­pens if exams are not passed. 

Offi­cial­ly, May 14 counts toward the exam peri­od. HHN has tried to keep the day free.

In indi­vid­ual cas­es, exams may take place on that day.