The general practice of the Study Board for Science is based on the specific conditions of the degree programmes governed by the board. Therefore, the practice cannot be expected to be the same as that of other study boards.
A dispensation is an exception to the usual rules that apply to an education programme. Any handing of an application for dispensation is made on the basis of an individual assessment and relates to specific, individual circumstances of the individual student. Therefore, a specific assessment is always made in the individual dispensation case.
The Study Board for Science emphasises that the student must document the “exceptional circumstances”, for example in the form of a doctor's. In addition, the study board would like the student to explain:
- The nature of the exceptional circumstances: The circumstances of the student must not occur regularly.
- How the exceptional circumstances are beyond the student's control: It must be something that the student could not have avoided or foreseen by common thoughtfulness, and that was not otherwise the student's "own fault".
- How the exceptional circumstances haves been of decisive importance for the application for dispensation: There must be a causal connection, ie. the exceptional circumstances must have a scope and a timing that prevent the student from following a given rule.
It is the practice of the Study Board to grant dispensation to deregistration from exams in the following situations, which have prevented the student from preparing for or participating in an exam:
- Own documented serious illness.
- Documented serious illness in the immediate family, as well as comparable, documented personal circumstances.
In other words, it is the practice of the Study Board to grant dispensations if the student has substantiated a temporal relation between the illness and the student's inability to complete the exam.
It is the practice of the Study Board to grant dispensations for additional exam attempts in the following situations, which have prevented the student from preparing for or participating in an exam:
- Own documented serious illness
- Documented serious illness in the immediate family, as well as comparable documented personal circumstances.
In other words, it is the practice of the Study Board to grant a dispensation if the student has substantiated and documented a temporal relation between the student's extraordinary circumstances and the student's inability to pass the exam (within the 3 exam attempts required by the executive order or last exam attempt).
The Study Board emphasises that documentation is obtained in immediate connection with the holding of the exam.
The Study Board attaches particular importance to a justified and documented reason if the normal rules and procedures for illness and exams have not been followed.
It is also the practice of the Study Board to apply the principle of proportionality, including allowing the number of missing ECTS in the degree to be included in the assessment in conjunction with the student's other special circumstances.
It is the practice of the Study Board to grant a dispensation from the study activity requirement in situations when a student is prevented from complying with the study activity requirements due to documented pregnancy, parental leave, own serious illness or comparable personal circumstances.
It is the practice of the Study Board to grant a dispensation if the student has substantiated and documented that there is a temporal relation between the student's extraordinary circumstances and the student's inability to pass any exams within a continuous period of at least one year .
The Study Board emphasises that a plan for the remaining course of study must be presented, in which the circumstances giving rise to the dispensation are taken into account.
It is the practice of the Study Board to grant dispensation from the time limit regulations when extraordinary circumstances can be documented.
These could be, for example documented serious illness or similarly documented illness in the immediate family or comparable, documented personal circumstances that have affected the student throughout the course of study and which the student could not have avoided by planning in time.
It is the opinion of the Study Board that the conditions mentioned are characterised by being beyond the student's control.
The Study Board emphasises that there must a clear relation between the circumstances giving rise to the dispensation and the length of the extension, and that there must a plan for the remaining course of study, which takes account of the circumstances giving rise to the dispensation. The study board's assessment is based on the student's entire course of study.
It is also the practice of the Study Board to apply the principle of proportionality, including allowing the number of missing ECTS in the degree to be included in the assessment in conjunction with the student's other special circumstances.
It is the practice of the Study Board grant dispensation from the time limit for the first-year exam when extraordinary circumstances can be documented.
These could be, for example, documented serious illness, corresponding documented illness in the immediate family or comparable documented personal circumstances that have affected the student for a longer period of time during the course of study and which the student could not have avoided by planning in time.
It is the opinion of the Study Board that the conditions mentioned are characterised by being beyond the student's control.
The Study Board emphasises that there must be a clear relation between the circumstances giving rise to the dispensation and the length of the extension, and that there must be a plan for the remaining course of study, which takes account of the circumstances giving rise to the dispensation. The study board's assessment is based on the student's entire course of study.
If you have a mental illness diagnosis or a physical disability, or if you are dyslexic or dyscalculic, you can apply for special exam conditions.
It is the practice of the Study Board to grant dispensation for special exam conditions in cases when the Study Board assesses that mental illness, physical disability, dyslexica or dyscalculia prevents a student from participating in the exam on an equal footing with other students.
The special exam conditions must not cause the academic level of the exam to be lowered or the competence targets not to be met.
It is the opinion of the Study Board that it must be ensured that the student experiences a variety of examination forms throughout their course of study.
It is the practice of the Study Board to grant dispensation for deregistration from compulsory courses in a given semester in the event of documented illness, pregnancy or other comparable documented personal circumstances that prevent the student from completing a course for which they have registered.
It is the practice of the Study Board to grant dispensation for deregistration from elective courses if the following criteria are met:
- Documented extraordinary circumstances prevent the student from completing the course
- No exams have been taken in the course
- The student has attached a study plan substantiating that deregistering from the elective course will not prevent the student from complying with the study activity requirements or the time limit regulations.
It is the practice of the Study Board to grant transfer of credits for courses at the same academic level, with at least the same ECTS weighting and with the same academic content as the course on the degree programme in question that is to be replaced, if you have not previously taken a test in the course on your degree programme