Examination Rules and Regulations apply only for SDU exams.
Your study secretary will register you for the 4 mandatory courses on your 1st semester at SDU Kolding. Registration for courses equals registration for the ordinary exam. As a general rule, deregistration is not an option. Please check your registration on the student self-service portal.
If you fail, are absent or report sick at the 1st examination attempt (ordinary examination), it is your own responsibility to sign up for the 2nd examination attempt (re-exam) on the student self-service portal. Once you have signed up for the re-exam, you cannot cancel the registration. In the autumn semester re-exams take place in February.
Please notice that there is a deadline for registering for re-exams (ask your study secretary about the deadline). Please note that the re-exam may differ from the ordinary exam. You may read about types of exams in your curriculum.
If, for technical reasons, you are not able to register for the re-exam, please contact your study secretary.
For each subject, you have 3 examination attempts. So, if you did not pass the exam in the 1st or 2nd attempt, you must register for your 3rd attempt on the student self-service portal. The 3rd examination attempt is scheduled in connection with the next ordinary exam, i.e. the following winter. If you need a 3rd examination attempt, we strongly recommend that you register for both the course (the classes) and the examination. That way, you will be automatically registered on Itslearning and thus be able to follow the course and get information on exam assignments etc.
Please notice that there are deadlines for registering for courses (and thereby the exam). The course registration period runs from the 20th of May to the 30th of May.
If, for technical reasons, you are not able to register for the courses and thereby the 3rd examination attempt, please contact your study secretary.
As a general rule, failing the 3rd attempt means that you cannot continue your studies. If, however, you have been exposed to exceptional circumstances, and that you are able to document these exceptional circumstances, you can apply to the Study Board for an exemption.
Please notice that you must have passed at least 30 ECTS during your first year of the programme in order to be able to continue on your second year.
There are various ways of cancelling an examination registration if you are prevented from attending an exam because of illness or due to other exceptional circumstances. It is important that you understand the difference between acute and long term conditions/circumstances.
Acute exceptional circumstances
If you fall ill just before or during the exam or are prevented from attending/sitting for the exam in case of acute exceptional circumstances, you will, of course, not be using an examination attempt. Instead you should report yourself sick. See contact.
Read more on Illness and Examinations
You must also report sick to your study secretary.
Long-term exceptional circumstances
If the exceptional circumstances are not acute - i.e. if you already months before the exam know that you'll be unable to attend it due to exceptional circumstances - you may apply to your Study Board for permission to deviate from the general regulations on examinations and registration requirements. You need to apply to your Study Board for a reduction of the registration requirements, and thus the registrations will be cancelled for the course(s) and exam(s) that you'll be unable to attend.
Do you get nervous before an exam to the extent that it affects you negatively? Perhaps then, you suffer from examination anxiety…
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You are also welcome to contact The Student Guidance Service, if you need to talk to someone about how to cope with and learn how to master your anxiety.
The majority of students have no intentions of cheating at the exams. Still, occasionally, students are caught cheating. Sometimes the intention has been to make it through a difficult exam that way, other times it is because the students are simply not familiar with the principles for academic integrity and formalities concerning good academic practices.
Read more about cheating at exams.
You may appeal
It is not a good feeling to have participated in an exam where you feel that the way in which the exam was conducted or the grading was not fair. Sometimes it results in a need to file an appeal on the conduct of the exam or the grade or both.
Considerations before filing an appeal
However, before writing and submitting an examination appeal, it may be a good idea to contact your examiner and ask for the detailed reasons for your assessment. We also recommend that you consider what you expect to gain from the appeal. Are you hoping for a re-assessment and a higher grade? Or perhaps a re-examination? In these Guidelines you’ll find a detailed description of what the outcome of an appeal may be.
Please note that should you decide to appeal, the appeal must be submitted within a two-week deadline from the time of publication of the examination results. We suggest that you spend those two weeks talking your exam experience over with e.g. your lecturer/examiner, fellow students or a guidance counsellor, and reflecting on your reasons for appealing and writing the appeal.
Guidance on examination appeals
Check the Guidelines for Examination Appeals at the Humanities and use this form for the appeal.
Appealing because of a failed exam?
If you failed an exam and have filed an appeal, we recommend that you register for the re-exam anyway. That way you’ll avoid lagging behind in your studies, should the appeal not be judged in your favour.
