Exams in B.Ed. History

Registration and deregistration for examinations during studies is done via ZEuS. Please note the registration deadlines mentioned on the website. 

You can still change your mind during the registration period. After the registration deadline has expired, your registration is binding and you are obliged to complete the respective examination (presentation, term paper, etc.). After expiry of the deadlines, withdrawal from the examination is only possible with the official attestation form, which you can find here.

WITHDRAWAL FROM THE EXAMINATION DUE TO ILLNESS

If you are ill on the day of the exam, you do not have to take it.

You must notify the Examination Office (Heike Reinhuber) of your illness BEFORE the exam by e-mail and provide a medical certificate.
Only use this form (see PDF "Withdrawal from exams and extension of theses due to illness (medical certificate)") and send it in advance as a scan by e-mail AND then by post to the Examination Office:
University of Konstanz
Department of History and Sociology
PO Box 13
Examination Office, Heike Reinhuber
D-78457 Konstanz.

The certificate must be issued at the latest on the day of the exam (in the case of longer illnesses also before the day of the examination) and must be valid for the day of the exam. Certificates or others forms issued later cannot be accepted.
 

WITHDRAWAL FROM EXAMS DUE TO OTHER REASONS

Withdrawal due to certain reasons can be approved in some exceptional cases, especially if students are not directly responsible for their inability to attend the exam. Admissible reasons include studying abroad or a sudden death within the family. If such a case arises, please contact the Examinations Office, Heike Reinhuber, explain your reasons for being unable to attend and enclose the necessary evidence.
 

UNEXCUSED ABSENCE

Unexcused absences from exams lead to the entry NE=not appeared in ZEuS and thus to failure of the exam. If there is a re-examination, you will be automatically registered for it.
 

RETAKE EXAMS AND FAILING

According to the general examination regulations for humanities degree programmes, an exam can be repeated once. This must happen at the earliest possible date. If you withdraw from an exam due to illness or if you do not pass the exam, you will automatically be registered by the Examination Office for the next available exam date.
Should you also be ill for the retake exam or should you fail it and another attempt be possible, please register on your own for the retake exam at the next available date. Please note: there is no automatic registration for exams across semesters.

If you also fail the retake exam, you must first submit a request for recognition as a hardship case to the StPA before the possibility of taking a further exam can be reactivated. The request for recognition as a hardship case must be submitted no later than two months after the announcement of the exam result. If a request for recognition as a hardship case is not submitted, the exam entitlement expires. The students concerned are usually contacted, but each student is obliged to contact the student advisor in any case.

If the request for recognition as a hardship case is granted, a final retake of the exam is possible. If the retake is not passed again, you are definitively not able to complete the history degree programme as a major or minor subject and cannot continue studying history in Germany, as you lose your entitlement to the exam.
The option of requesting a request for recognition as a hardship case can be only used twice within a degree programme.

If the examination is compulsory for the orientation examination, the examination can only be repeated once, so in this case there is no longer any possibility of submitting a hardship application: "A second repetition of examinations to be taken as part of the orientation examination is not possible." (General Examination Regulations §25 (3)).

Orientation examination:
This must be taken by the beginning of the 3rd semester as part of the course guidance. As a study-related examination, you must present this evidence:

Applies to PO 2022:
- All required language skills
- Introductory lectures "Alte Geschichte und Mittelalter" and "Neuzeit"
- Course "Geschichte als Wissenschaft"
- Source exercise

Applies to PO 2015:
- All required language skills
- Introductory lecture
- One proseminar

If you need to make up the required language skills, you must apply for an extension of the deadline by the end of the second semester at the latest. This is done by presenting your Abitur certificate to the student advisory service. For each missing language proficiency, two semesters can be added to the standard period of study and the deadline for the orientation exam is extended accordingly. 

Registration with the History Student Advisory Service

    Examination in the winter semester: 15 February
    Examination in the summer semester: 15 July

The form for registering for the examination can be found here.

ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS 

Prerequisite for the registration for the written examination is the passing of:

• the orientation examination
• a Flexmodul examination performance: an advanced seminar in the subject History
• the completed orientation internship
• the signatures of the examiners from PO 2022 also: proof of the second study consultation with a teacher of a completed proseminar.

In the B.Ed. there is NO oral examination.

REGISTRATION PROCEDURE FOR THE BA THESIS

1. You can obtain the registration documents from the Central Examination Office in person or by e-mail on request. Your contact person is Mareike Kuketz, room C401.
2. Find two examiners (see the list of authorised examiners) to supervise your thesis. Discuss the topic of your thesis with them.
    
3. The student advisor will check whether you meet the requirements for registering for the written examination during office hours. To do this, bring the form signed by the examiners to one of the office hours of the Student Advisory Service. Here your ZEuS account will be checked for completeness.
    
4. The official registration (submission of the signed forms) for the written and oral final examinations takes place with Mareike Kuketz (Central Examinations Office). Four registration periods are set for this purpose:

Winter semester: 15 - 30 October (start processing: 15 November)
                                01 - 15 December (start of processing: 01 February)
Summer semester: 02 - 16 May (start processing: 01 June)
                                01 - 15 July (start of processing: 01 August)

If the start of registration falls on a Saturday or a Sunday, the deadline is automatically extended by this period, as it is not possible to register at the Examination Office on Saturdays and Sundays. Cut-off deadlines apply. 

If the deadline starts on 15 November, the deadline is automatically extended by the period approved by the Prorector in each case due to the closure at Christmas/the end of the year (already taken into account by the Examinations Office during admission).

Current information and forms are provided on the page of the Central Examination Office (ZPA). 

Here you will find information on the following topics, among others: 

- Registration for the final examination
- General regulations for submitting final examinations
- Signets of the University of Konstanz
- Withdrawing from examinations and extending final examinations
- Certification of examination documents
- Financial support for final theses

An overview of the contact persons at the ZPA, their responsibilities and office hours can be found here.

Current list of examiners in History.