Examinations

All examination dates with location details and times can be found on the LSF with the respective course details. Any missing information regarding exam locations will be added in due course.
Our regulations for examination procedures are based on the HTW's regulation guidelines for examinations [PDF, 56 KB].

Language courses end with an exam after every term.
The score and the number of credit hours taken are
either certified in an assessment, which must be picked up personally or by an authorised person at the Media Centre of the Foreign Language Centre and must be submitted to the Examination Office as proof of language training (normally for students in German "Diplom" study programmes or other study programmes being phased out, as well as guest and auditing students),
or automatically forwarded to the Examination Office (normally applicable to study programmes with online exam registration for language courses, Public Management studies and foreign exchange students).

Starting with the newly conceived Bachelor's degree programmes in the 2006 summer term, the conventional method of transmitting marks will be successively replaced by the automatic forwarding of examination results directly to the Examination Office's database. You will then be able to check your foreign language scores online. In such cases, certificates for the term will no longer be issued in the future.
As the database includes the newer programmes of study only, certificates will still be printed for the following programmes:

• All German Diplom Programmes
• Old Bachelor Programmes
• All HTW students who have completed their programme's language requirements and are now taking additional languages
• All HTW exchange students (grades for exchange students are forwarded to the International Office directly by the Language Centre)

Printed certificates can be collected in the Media Centre from Frau Uhlig (Room 128, WH TGS Haus 1b ) during her contact hours.

Exam registration is a mandatory requirement for admittance to an examination and also obligates the student to sit for the exam. According to the regulation guidelines for examinations, you may select from two different exam periods for all language courses or, at the time of registration, abstain from sitting for the exam. Without the examination registration, you will not be admitted to the exam. If you opt for the first exam date, you can simultaneously use the second exam date for repeat exams if you fail the first time or were hindered from sitting for the exam and have been excused.

Registration for the exam is done for foreign language courses

• online via the LSF portal for all Bachelor’s degree students in the above-mentioned study programmes if the language course is stipulated in the respective study regulations (direct link to LSF: http://lsf.htw-berlin.de)

or

• in class by signing the protocol for the proficiency certificate for language course participants from all other study programmes, guest students, auditing students, and, in general, for participants who are taking these classes as extra-curricular coursework.

Registration deadlines for this: see Dates and Deadlines.

• Participants may only sit for an exam in the class they are registered for.
• Paragraph 7, Section 1 of the Regulation Guidelines debars the repetition of examinations for the sole purpose of improving a final mark previously attained in a passed exam.
• Please note: the selection of an examination period may be stipulated by the student’s study programme!
• The format and scope of proficiency certificates and examinations can be found in the module descriptions. You can find these for each language in the Course Descriptions section.
• The cut-off period within which the course must be successfully completed begins upon first-time valid registration. In total, there are only two repeat examinations which must be sat for at the very latest within the scope of the exam dates in the two terms following the initial registration (repeatability period).

For the 2010 summer semester, an important procedural change has beenintroduced to the examination system, which brings benefits both for theuniversity and its students. For more information, please follow this linkto the examinations office web page.

New regulations for exams