Examination information

If you have any problems registering for examinations, please send the completed examination registration form (which can be found in myStudies) with a description of your problem to the Examinations Office by e-mail (exams@ethz.ch). It is still not necessary to hand in the registration form to the Examinations Office in person.

The same applies if you need to register belatedly for an examination.

EXAMINATION REGISTRATION AND WITHDRAWAL

Spring semester 2025 – Summer session 2025

TYPE OF A PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT:

To find out what TYPE of exam you are taking, check myStudies Functions ⇒ Course registration ⇒ Individual course units ⇒ Performance assessment:
The details in the course catalogue are binding in any case!
- You do not need to register for SEMESTER performances (no matter if graded or ungraded), not even if the performance assessment will be carried out as an examination! You only have to make a timely enrollment into the respective course unit.
- In addition to the enrollment in the course unit you must also actively register for END-OF-SEMESTER exams which are defined as such in the course catalogue.
- In addition to the enrollment in the course unit (possibly in a past semester) you must also actively register for
  SESSION exams which are defined as such in the course catalogue.
- For Continuous Performance Assessments / C.P.A. (Compulsory continuous performance assessment, Interim examinations, Learning tasks) there is no registration required through myStudies. Please also note the corresponding Download Directive on Deploying Continuous Performance Assessments in Teaching (PDF, 49 KB).

During exam registration you can allocate performance assessments to a certain CATEGORY of your study regulation. This allocation can still be changed after the result of the performance assessment has been decreed. At the latest, prior to submitting your diploma request you have to bindingly assign all relevant categories to the respective performance assessments.

DEADLINES:

Starting Monday, 3 March until no later than Sunday, 16 March 2025 at midnight, you can register for all end-of-semester- and session exams autonomously through myStudies Functions ⇒ Examinations.
This deadline applies for both session- and end-of-semester exams!
If you do not pass an end-of-semester exam and the examiner offers you the possibility to take a repeat exam (see information on ‘performance assessments’ in the course catalogue), you can register for it between
Monday, 30 June up to and including Sunday, 7 September 2025, at midnight.
Please note that you will only be able to register for such a repeat exam if the result of your first attempt has been decreed, i.e., is listed online in your ‘Transcript of Records’.
The closing dates are mandatory for everyone!
Once the regular registration deadline has passed, it is no longer possible to register for examinations through myStudies.
Such late registrations must be submitted by email.
Please note that we cannot assist you, should you miss the registration deadline because of encountered (computer-)problems on the last day resp. the weekend of the registration deadline.
We therefore advise you to register for exams at the beginning of the registration phase if possible, so that any problems can be noticed at an early stage and a solution sought within the registration period with the Examination Office by e-mail or telephone.

BELATED EXAMINATION REGISTRATION:

For session- and end-of-semester examinations the following applies:
An exam registration until the end of the fourth week of the semester (generally through myStudies or in case of problems by email to the Examinations Office) is free of charge.

Late registrations incur a late registration fee.

From the 5^th week of the semester until the publication of the schedule of written examinations (approx. during the second half of May 2025) a registration is only possible by email to the Examinations Office and costs CHF 50.--
After this date and until the belated registration deadline (see below), a late registration is only possible by email to the Examinations Office as well and costs CHF 90.--
For a late exam registration, please send the filled out and signed registration form, which can be found in myStudies, by e-mail to exams@ethz.ch. The Examinations Office will check whether a late registration is possible and, if so, will take care of it. You will then be sent an invoice for the payment of the late registration fee.

ATTENTION:
For late registrations the following deadlines apply. Please note that after the respective deadline has expired, a late registration will NOT be possible anymore. Therefore, please make sure by checking myStudies that you are registered for all exams you would like to take before the deadline expires:

Session Examinations
- From the end of the registration phase (5^th week of the semester) up to and including Sunday, 27 July 2025, at midnight, thus one week before the beginning of the examination session.
End-of-semester Examinations (regular term)
- From the end of the registration period (5^th week of the semester) up to and including Sunday, 18 May 2025, at midnight, thus two weeks before the end of the lecture period.
End-of-semester Examinations (repetition dates)
- No late registration possible, as the registration and de-registration deadlines are the same here (Sunday, 7 September 2025, thus one week before the start of the autumn semester 2025).

CLAIMS:

Please note, that you have no entitlement to take a session- or an end-of-semester examination without being registered for it.
An examination taken without registration cannot be registered retroactively and is not valid.
This rule also applies for semester performances accordingly, but only as long as there is an internal registration procedure (which is organized by the lecturer/s).

STUDY DEADLINES:

If you have a binding deadline in this semester and therefore either have to take the first-year examinations, pass your additional requirements or have to conclude your studies please make sure to register for all required examinations.

Do not send your registration form to the Examinations Office in vain. The most common cases are:

Semester performances (A separate examination registration is not required, not even if there is an examination - enrolling for the course unit is sufficient.)
How do I determine, whether it is a semester performance or not?
myStudies (Functions ⇒ Course registration ⇒ klick on the respective course ⇒ Performance Assessment ⇒ Type)
(The information in the course catalogue regarding the "Type" is binding.)
Missing enrolment for the course unit itself.
(In most cases such course registrations can still be made - retroactively as well - by you in myStudies.)
Students who are enrolled in the first semester of a study programme without split first year exams cannot register for the first year exam block.

In the following cases a registration is not possible in myStudies:

MAXIMUM NUMBER OF EXAMINATIONS:

The maximum number of session examinations that you can register for is limited to 11.
This limitation became necessary in order to be able to ensure that students can take all registered examinations that are part of their respective curriculum.
Exceptions to this rule can only be granted in well-founded cases. Such requests have to be handed in by email (exams@ethz.ch) to the Examinations Office by no later than and including Sunday, 16 March 2025.

FURTHER CASES:

Certain cases involving an exam exemption or additional requirements must be processed by hand.
If you are repeating the first semester (enrolment in the first study semester), an online registration for first-year exams is not possible in myStudies. (This only applies to study programmes without split first-year exams.)
Course units that you enrolled in more than four semesters ago.
Special cases that have to be processed by hand.

PROCEDURE:

In these cases you must fill out the REGISTRATION FORM that you can find in myStudies under “Registration for Examinations” and send it by email to the Examinations Office (exams@ethz.ch) by no later than and including Sunday, 16 March 2025.
If you are asked by the Examinations Office to come in person, you will find it here:
Examinations Office, ETH Main Building, Rämistrasse 101, HG F 18
When:
Desk opening hours: Monday and Thursday, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.
By phone: Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. - 11 a.m.

During the second week of the registration period we receive many e-mail inquiries. Please note that it may take longer until you receive your answer. In urgent cases, we advise you to contact the Examinations Office by telephone.

End-of-semester examinations:
Until no later than Sunday, 18 May 2025, at midnight
Session examinations:
Until no later than Sunday, 27 July 2025, at midnight
Repetition of end-of-semester exams:
Until no later than Sunday, 7 September 2025, at midnight
Semester performances (graded and ungraded):
Please follow the information given by the lecturers.
Continuous Performance Assessment:
The information given by the lecturers in charge is crucial in this case as well.

BELATED DEREGISTRATION:

Late deregistrations of individual exams as well as of entire examination blocks are still only possible by direct notification to the examinations office (exams@ethz.ch or by phone).
In this context, it is important to note the Directive on the examination phase at the end of the semester (will be sent to all students with registrations for end-of-semester examinations approx. during the second half of May 2025), as well as the Directive on the examination session (will be sent to all students with registrations for session examinations together with the schedule of oral examinations approx. by the end of June 2025), which will also be filed in the Directives Collection of the Rectorate.
According to the Ordinance on Performance Assessments at ETH Zurich: Implementation stipulations determined by the Rector, all obtained results are listed on the academic record resp. on the addendum.
This rule applies to all passed, failed and dropped performance assessments. The result of the last try will be listed.

EXAMINATON BLOCK:

Examinations that are part of an examination block must be taken in the same examination session.
Because of this, an examination block can only be registered and deregistered as a whole.

Exception: Examination blocks that had to be discontinued in the previous examination session due to compelling circumstances. In such cases, a registration is automatically processed for the next examination session.

IN THE FOLLOWING CASES A DEREGISTRATION IS NOT POSSIBLE (ELECTRONICALLY):

The deregistration deadline has passed.
The first-year exams or an examination block were discontinued in the previous session.
The deadline for the first-year exams or for the final degree exams (which is not checked electronically!) will not be met.
There is a request for distance exams or for the preponement of exams.

Please contact the Examinations Office by email (exams@ethz.ch) or by phone (+41 44 632 20 68 / Mon - Fri, 9 a.m. - 11 a.m.).

FIRST-YEAR-EXAMS:

First-year exams – for study programmes without split first-year exams:
First-year exams must be taken within two years after you begin studying. This also applies for any repeat exams.
The first try must be taken straightaway at the end of the first year of study or in the following winter examination session at the latest.
Any second attempts must be promptly made no later than in the summer examination session at the end of the second year of study.
First-year exams – for study programmes with split first-year exams:
First-year exams, consisting of two separate examination blocks, have to be taken within four semesters after starting with the study programme, incl. any repeat exams.
Examinations that are part of a separate first-year examination block have to be taken within the same examination session.
The two first-year examination blocks can be taken independently of each other and in random order, either in different or in the same examination session.
Accordingly, the first examination block can already be taken after completion of the first semester.
Study Deadlines:
The deadlines can be viewed in myStudies (Functions ⇒ “Deadline”).
If you cannot meet one of these deadlines, you must submit a detailed and well-founded request for extending the deadline to the Examinations Office or to the Student Administration as soon as possible. (Please also note the information further below.)
Pending examination attempts expire after the deadline for the first year examinations and do not entitle to an extension of the deadline.

MEETING STUDY DEADLINES:

It is your personal responsibility to meet all study deadlines.

If a study deadline is not met, a well-founded request for deregistering and for extending the examination deadline must be handed in along with the relevant documents, e.g., substantiated medical certificate.

All requests for study deadline extensions must be submitted using the appropriate form (deadline to complete studies or first year examination deadlines). Further information on extending on the extension on study deadlines and access to the two forms can be found on the page Requests for exceptions – Extension of academic deadlines

Detailed information about study deadlines can be found here: Study terms

Examination information

The same applies if you need to register belatedly for an examination.

EXAMINATION REGISTRATION AND WITHDRAWAL

Spring semester 2025 – Summer session 2025

TYPE OF A PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT:

DEADLINES:

BELATED EXAMINATION REGISTRATION:

CLAIMS:

STUDY DEADLINES:

Do not send your registration form to the Examinations Office in vain. The most common cases are:

In the following cases a registration is not possible in myStudies:

MAXIMUM NUMBER OF EXAMINATIONS:

FURTHER CASES:

PROCEDURE:

SESSION EXAMINATIONS:

END-OF-SEMESTER EXAMINATIONS:

BELATED DEREGISTRATION:

EXAMINATON BLOCK:

IN THE FOLLOWING CASES A DEREGISTRATION IS NOT POSSIBLE (ELECTRONICALLY):

FIRST-YEAR-EXAMS:

MEETING STUDY DEADLINES:

Examination information

The same applies if you need to register belatedly for an examination.

EXAMINATION REGISTRATION AND WITHDRAWAL

Spring semester 2025 – Summer session 2025

EXAMINATIONS - DATES (end-of-semester exams, session exams)

REGISTRATION: TERMS (Semester performances, end-of-semester ex., session ex., c.p.a.)

TYPE OF A PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT:

DEADLINES:

BELATED EXAMINATION REGISTRATION:

CLAIMS:

STUDY DEADLINES:

REGISTRATION - when is it not possible to do it electronically?

Do not send your registration form to the Examinations Office in vain. The most common cases are:

In the following cases a registration is not possible in myStudies:

MAXIMUM NUMBER OF EXAMINATIONS:

FURTHER CASES:

PROCEDURE:

EXAMINATION SCHEDULES (end-of-semester exams, session exams: 3 phases)

SESSION EXAMINATIONS:

END-OF-SEMESTER EXAMINATIONS:

DEREGISTRATION DEADLINES (semester perf., end-of-semester ex., session ex., c.p.a.)

BELATED DEREGISTRATION:

EXAMINATON BLOCK:

IN THE FOLLOWING CASES A DEREGISTRATION IS NOT POSSIBLE (ELECTRONICALLY):

DISTANCE EXAMS or PREPONEMENT of exams (end-of-semester exams, session exams)

STUDY DEADLINES - for taking exams

FIRST-YEAR-EXAMS:

MEETING STUDY DEADLINES:

Which performances will appear on the academic record?

Regulations, Ordinances