This page provides information on academic adjustments and exam access arrangements for people with illnesses or disabilities.
Step 1: Complete the Application for Compensation for Disadvantages.
Step 2: Attach the required supporting documents to your application. Without sufficient explanation and supporting documents, compensation for disadvantages cannot be granted. These may include:
Step 3: Send the application by email or post to the Examination Office, Innstraße 41, 94032 Passau.
Step 4: Your application will usually be processed within four weeks. You will receive a written notification of the decision by post.
Important note: If you have already received approval for compensation for disadvantages for your entire course of study, you must still apply for compensation each semester for your planned exams. You can find detailed instructions in the tabs below.
Students who, due to a disability or prolonged serious or chronic illness, are unable to take examinations in full or in part under the prescribed conditions or within the deadlines specified in the study and examination regulations.
You can also obtain detailed information on the granting of compensation for disadvantages from
You decide for which examinations you want to make use of the measures granted. For this reason, the examiners and the Examinations Office rely on you to register each semester for which examinations you wish to claim compensation for disadvantages.
Please register your access arrangements each semester during the registration period for the examinations using a written form “Registration for access arrangements for examinations" to the respective office responsible for organizing and conducting the examination. This is either the chair (decentralized examinations) or the Examinations Office (centralized examinations).
For examinations that are organized centrally, please contact nachteilsausgleich-studierende@uni-passau.de. For decentralized examinations, please contact the respective chair. Information on whether an examination is organized centrally or decentrally can be found at https://www.uni-passau.de/pruefungssekretariat/semesterbezogene-informationen.
A consultation is often necessary to determine the specific compensatory measures.
Please feel free to take advantage of the consultation opportunities in the examination office by the responsible clerk and make an appointment for this by e-mail or telephone.
Ms. Ulrike Bunge, the reprensentative for students with disabilities and chronic illnesses, will also be happy to advise you.
The psychological counseling centers advise all students at the University of Passau on personal, family or performance-related problems.
The social counseling service of the Studentenwerk will advise you, among other things, in case of financial difficulties, questions about tenancy law and studying with a child.
Eleonora Öller
Via mail to nachteilsausgleich-studierende@uni-passau.de
or
by phone via
+49 851 509-4920
Mo - Fri: 9 am to 12 am
