Examination periods and registration deadlines

If you as a physics student miss to register an exam within the deadline in TUMonline for a good reason, you may file for late registration using the late registration form.

Late registration of students of other departments even in physics exams is only done by the other department. For example, a student in the Bachelor's program in Mathematics requiring late registration in the Experimental Physics 1 exam needs to contact the Infopoint of Mathematics.

Physics students should hand in the completed form to a member of the team of study organisation and counseling (not the Dean of Studies and not the responsible professors for a study program) in person (only if you are absolutely sure to have filled in everything correctly, you may send the form via mail or as scan via e-mail to study@ph.tum.de). It needs to be signed by you and either the examiner or the teaching assistant responsible for the exam organization. Take care of including the correct code of the exam – the exam number is usually identical to the module number and is never a simple integer but starts with the shorthand of the responsible department (e.g. "PH" for exams in Physics).

Students of other departments need to contact their department!

• TUM School of Education
• Department of Mathematics
• Department of Informatics
• Department of Chemistry
• Department of Mechanical Engineering
• Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Department of Civil, Geo and Environmental Engineering

The coordination of the exam dates for written exams is done in two steps:

Centralized coordination (usually before semester start)

Larger written exams, especially those of mandatory modules, are coordinated with the other departments at TUM. Starting WS 2015/6 this is done by software aided mathematical optimization of the dates. Hence from WS 2015/6 historical dates have less to no prediction power for the future.

As soon as this information is available, the preliminary plan for the examination dates in physics is made available in the internal section. Please keep in mind: only the final date published in TUMonline is valid at the end.

Distributed coordination (usually until the registration starts after five weeks in the lecture period)

Single written exams are added by the examiners after the centralized exam coordination has taken place.

Subsequently, information on the examination dates is available in the corresponding module descriptions of the course catalog and at the specific page for the Bachelor’s program in physics. Please always check the TUMonline entry!

With a few exceptions, oral exams are organized by the examiners themselves. In general you will find a remark at the TUMonline registration form stating this. Please contact directly the examiner to receive your individual date.

The examiners are relatively free to set the dates, but you should keep in mind that the time between the two lecturing periods is divided in two examination periods. When you register for the first period (dummy date usually one week before the lectures end), the exam needs to be before the dummy date of the second examination period – and after if you register for the second examination period. You will fail the exam ("X – nicht erschienen") if you do not take the exam at the end of the examination period you have registered for or at the latest one week after lecturing of the following semester starts.

Oral exams coordinated by department administration

For certain mandatory or required elective modules with oral exams the examiner assignment and coordination individual exam dates is done by the student's office in the Physics Department. Especially these are:

• the exam on the module "Theoretical Physics 4 [PH0008]"
• the exams on the modules of the sixth semester taught condensed in the first half of the lecture period