Frequently asked questions (FAQs)

The Central Examination Office is responsible for the organisation/administration of examination procedures and supports the respective examination boards in their tasks. It has a comprehensive right to information in all examination matters vis-à-vis the examiners and the respective examination board. This also applies to Staatsexamen (State Examination) examinations in the teaching profession and Law.

You can obtain legally binding information on request (by telephone, email or in person) from the Central Examination Office.

Firstly, the general examination regulations govern the general course of study. They apply to the degree courses at the University of Greifswald; regulations for the respective degree course can also be found in the individual Examination and Study Regulations. The examination and study regulations have been issued on the basis of the general examination regulations since 2012.

You can reach the staff of the Central Examination Office in person during consultation hours. However, telephone accessibility is limited during office hours, so we ask for your understanding. Individual appointments outside office hours are possible. Please contact the responsible member of staff by phone or email.

Individual appointments outside of office hours are possible during the lecture period as well as during the non-teaching period. Please contact the responsible member of staff by phone or email.

You will receive information from the Central Examination Office in person, by telephone, by email or by post. Please also check your university mail account regularly and make sure that you can be contacted by post at all times, as notifications will only be sent by post (to the address you have provided).

Requests or documents can also be scanned and sent to the Central Examination Office by email, provided they bear a handwritten signature. If admissions, certificates etc. cannot be collected in person, it is possible to authorise someone to do so. Certificate documents, on the other hand, are sent automatically after confirmation of the address.

For data protection reasons, no information will be passed on to third parties (e.g. relatives, public authorities, offices, etc.) unless this is mandatory by law (cf. Hochschulstatistikgesetz (University Statistics Act), etc.). This generally requires the consent of the individual.

An informal request is a letter that can be freely designed. It must contain the personal data required by the public authority (e.g. name and Student ID Number). The place and date, the address of the reception and a subject should be included. The handwritten signature should not be missing at the end. A reference to any appendixes is useful.

There are no forms for this.

Examinations and Studienordnung (Study Regulations) often require someone to do something immediately. This term is defined in Section 121 of the German Civil Code (BGB) to mean acting "without culpable delay". This does not necessarily mean that action must be taken immediately. Rather, the person concerned has a period of consideration, the length of which depends on the difficulty of the decision to be made. This is therefore a case-by-case decision.

You will be informed of the approval or rejection of a request by notification. This will be sent by post to the address you provided in the self-service portal.

A hearing is a legal procedure in which the public authority (e.g. the Central Examination Office) gives the person concerned the opportunity to comment on the facts and possible results within a reasonable deadline before issuing a notification and/or to submit proof that is not available to the public authority at that time.