• The course exam registration is the admission to the exam and thus mandatory for receiving course exam results.

• Your lecturer/examiner will be able to enter your course exam results in alma.

During the exam registration period!

• Regular period (whole University)
  • Winter semesters: 1st Monday in December until mid-January 
  • Summer semesters: 1st Monday in June until mid-July
• “Make up” exam dates are department specific (e.g. only for exams you failed or could not attend)

You need to register for all course related examinations you want to receive a result on your transcript for: graded and non-graded results (exams and non-assessed coursework during the semester).

Exceptions will be communicated by the department/examiner.

There are two methods of registering for exams in alma.

Where possible, it is mandatory to self-register for course related examinations in alma. For all other exams in alma, which are not available to you for self-registration, register via the Exam registration exchange students form.  

1. First check if the courses/exams are available IN your "Planner of studies with Module plan" and self-register directly in alma in time via:
   → alma > My Studies > Planner of studies with Module plan > Structure of examination regulations
   
   Find detailed (alma) instructions here
    

2. Otherwise for courses/exams NOT available in your "Planner of studies with Module plan", register via the "Exam registration" form:
   →  Digitally filled in Exam registration exchange students form sent to exchange-examsspam prevention@uni-tuebingen.de
   Please note, that you can only be added to exams available in alma.

Important note: Exam registration forms without your signature can ONLY be sent from your University of Tübingen e-mail Account.

Generally, if you were able to self-register for a course in your “Planner of studies with Module plan”, you will be able to register for the related examination in your “Planner of studies with Module plan”.

You can self-register in alma if:

• you are part of the same faculty as one of the defined study program offers for exchange students. Defined Study Programs with many exchange students currently are Economics and Business Administration, Management and Economics, Political Science and German Studies (Germanistik).
• the course examination is part of the non-faculty program available on alma, e.g.: German as a foreign language, foreign language center, Transdisciplinary course program, Center for Information, Communication and Media.  

Additionally, your university course catalogue (Vorlesungsverzeichnis) faculty program for exchange students shows you which courses are directly available for exchange students within your faculty on alma.

• It depends on your lecturer/examiner if you will still be able to receive a course exam result. Generally, the exam registration is the prerequisite for receiving course exam results.
• If you can still receive a result, receiving your grades will take longer: Your lecturer/examiner will need to contact the responsible examination officer from their department.
• Generating your transcript will take longer.

You will find your transcript here: alma > My Studies > "My Achievements" and there the box „Transcript of Records for Incoming Exchange students“

This transcript shows all examination results provided to the Central Examination Office at that specific point of time. Be aware, that it can take some time until your lecturer/examiner has corrected and uploaded your exam results.

Generally your transcript can only contain exam results processed via alma. The standard transcript you can download from alma yourself as a student shows all passed and failed exams. You can request a transcript with only passed exams when requesting your directly transferred final transcript​.

Before you request your directly transferred final transcript, check if:

• all grades you achieved are in alma and thus on your transcript​
• all the ECTS points are correct and as agreed

Please contact the lecturer/examiner if items are missing or incorrect. All issues related to specific exam results (e.g. an ECTS credit or grade on your PDF-transcript is incorrect or not in alma yet) are managed by your lecturer/examiner. The examination office can ONLY upload grades provided by the lecturer/examiner.

Once all your results are complete in alma you (not your home university) can request your final transcript by sending the form Request for digitaly transferred final transcript to exchange-examsspam prevention@uni-tuebingen.de.

Please ONLY request your directly transferred final transcript when it is complete. If your university requests a transcript before it is complete, please use the standard transcript provided to you on alma.

Your directly transferred final transcript, if necessary, can be sent:

• as a digital copy of your transcript to a specified mail address at your home university or
• as a signed hard copy to a specified address at your home university.​

If the ECTS agreed upon individually with the lecturers do not match the ECTS options available for an exam on the alma platform, the responsible lecturers must update the ECTS afterwards. This cannot be done during the exam registration period but only after the course has been completed:

• Once the student has completed all required coursework and the course is finished, the respective examiner can contact the Central Examinations Office at exchange-examsspam prevention@uni-tuebingen.de  to confirm the  ECTS adjustment.
• The Examinations Office updates the ECTS, and the transcript with the adjusted ECTs is then available for download in alma.

If no exam has been set up for a course in alma, if the exam details are incomplete or incorrect, or if the course does not exist in alma, it is not possible to register an exam. In that case, please proceed as follows:

• Please contact the lecturer responsible, explain the situation, and ask whether you can take the final exam without formal exam registration;  or, in the case of courses with ongoing assessments, complete the course in this form.
• If possible, the lecturer must contact the Examinations Office by e-mail after the exam or at the end of the course and provide all necessary information so that the course result can be entered afterwards.

Prior to the Winter semester 2022/2023, the Central Examinations Office did not issue transcripts for international exchange students. Students who completed their studies by the end of the Summer semester 2022 are therefore asked to contact the relevant offices for older transcripts of exchange students directly.

Your home university will be responsible for converting the course results you achieved at the University of Tübingen. The local grades on your official transcript from the University of Tübingen serve as the basis for the conversion. The ECTS letter grades (A-E) also listed on the transcript are currently available only university-wide. Since the distribution may vary depending on the department or course, the ECTS letter grades are not a suitable basis for an official grade conversion.