FAQ

• Please use the FAQ-homepage of the Friedolin-Helpdesk

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• Please keep your personal information up to date for important requests of the examinations office. The current status you can check after your login in Friedolin at “Personal data”.
• To change your address please fill in the form “Veränderungsmeldung” on the website of the Student Service Centre de. The form must be provided via mail or in person (FSU Jena, Studierenden-Service-Zentrum, 07737 Jena)
• To change your e-mail address please contact the Student Service Centre de
• Please check your mail regularly or forward your mails to an active account.
• Phone numbers can be changed in Friedolin
• International students can change their personal data at the international officeExternal link

• Inform the examiner before the start of the examination (e-mail or phone call).
• Submit the certificate stating that you are unable to take the examination to the Examinations Office within 3 working days.
  (by post, in person or in the letterbox in the foyer, scanned as an email attachment is also sufficient)
• This certificate can be printed out via the website, but informal versions from the doctor's practice are also accepted. It is important to note that only the university can formally determine the inability to take exams;
• The old paper medical certificate ("Krankenschein") is also accepted by us, but only in the version with a diagnosis code, if it shows that you are unable to take an examination. The university is currently not authorised to read out the sickness absence data digitally, as is possible for employees.
• ATTENTION! Even if you are ill on the 1st examination date, you will automatically be registered for the re-examination (1st attempt)!
  If no form is submitted at a later date, the examination is deemed to have been failed ("failure to appear without good reason").

• Yes, it is possible to submit your thesis these ways.
• Caution! Please be aware of your faculty’s requirements. Otherwise your thesis is not submitted in due time. (Bachelor: 2 bounded hardcopies + 1 digital version. / Master: 3 bounded hardcopies + 1 digital version.)
• Declaration of independence in each bounded hardcopy must be submitted!

• There are no exact formal criteria. You should use the standard formal criteria of your faculty (font size, line space etc.) The number of pages written is not limited.
• No coil/spiral binding for the hardcopies of your thesis.
• Your thesis should contain your signed declaration of independence.

• Within 10 weeks after begin of lectures a withdrawal on Friedolin is possible.
• Afterwards just via formpdf, 433 kb · de.

• Application for lectures should be in advance of their start. (Winter semester from 15.08 / Summer semester from 15.02)
• The lectures assignment will occur beginning of October/April
• Within 10 weeks after the beginning of the semester a submission (or withdrawal) is possible.
• Further information you can find on Friedolin at “Dates”.

• Regulations for a “free attempt” you can find here: for B.Sc. Physik, for B.Sc. Werkstoffwissenschaften.

• Application must occur within 6 weeks after the beginning of the next semester.
• The right to take an examination must be newly awarded. Regulations will be set by the examiner.
• Sometimes there is the possibility for an oral examination but not by legal right.
• General form of application.

• It is always possible to participate in modules without taking examinations.
• Master compulsory elective modules with a maximum of 12 ECTS will be recognized when completed during your Bachelor studies.
• ECTS will be recognized for future Master studies.
• General form of application.

• Modules of “Teacher training” are exclusively for students with them being compulsory modules of their recommended study plan.
• Exceptions will be made with the lecturer for students who must repeat the module.
• Students of “Teacher training” are generally allowed to attend Bachelor modules.

• We recommend completing your practical semester during the summer semester (typically the 6^th semester).
• If the practical semester is completed during the winter semester (5^th semester) modules must be attended in a different order.

• Normally contents of modules will be compared. Cases of regulations can occur.
• Please inform at the Office for Student Affairs and Examinations.

• In general, regulations are the same as with compulsory modules (Dates, application, free attempts etc.)
• Exceptional case here: The possibility to replace one required elective module with another in case of failed modules.
• If you have completed more required elective modules than necessary these can be referenced as additional modules on your grade certificate.

• For your Bachelor thesis (Physics, Materials Science) it is 360 hours according to examination regulations.
• Standard FSU-regulations: From 9 weeks to 4 months time for completion.
• Admission at the examinations office.

• No, this is not a problem. Please submit to examinations in time.
• g. “Introduction to Research Methods” (M.Sc. Physics/Materials Science) / “Industrial Internship” (B.Sc. Materials Science)

• Admission to lecture (Schedule of classes)
• Admission to examination
• Grade added by examinations office.

• according to the decision of the Faculty Council of 12.02.2015, language courses up to 8 ECTS can be credited in the free elective area
• there must be progress in the acquisition of language skills beyond the Abitur level

Attempts to deceive, serious disruption to the examination process, plagiarism, etc. are generally given mark 5.0. In that case, the possibility for a 2nd retake is cancelled as well. This applies in particular to both the person who takes results from another one and the person who allows it. In the event of serious misconduct, examinations can also be retrospectively canceled. Details are regulated in the relevant paragraphs of the examination regulations.

Since theses are critical for the completion of the degree, it is prescribed here that one of the two examiners (=examiner) must be a university lecturer/professor (cf. §54 (4) ThürHSG).

In the MSc. Physics and BSc. Physics this means in particular that the first examiner (= the one who issues the topic) is a professor of the FSU. The same applies to the MSc. Photonics, whereby it must also be guaranteed that the professor is a member of the Abbe School of Photonics. In the BSc. or MSc. Materials Science, the second reviewer can also be a professor and the first reviewer can be, for example, a junior research group leader.