Exam results and grades
All your examination results will be announced in the student self-service system STADS.
All exams will be assessed by grades or pass/fail
Deadlines for notification of assessment
At oral exams, you will receive your grade immediately after the exam.
As for written exams the deadline for assessment is at latest 4 weeks after the exam, cf. the examination order. However, the deadline for assessment of a master’s thesis is no later than 6 weeks after the submission of the thesis. The month of July is not included in the calculation of the assessment deadlines.
The university may, in some cases, extend the assessment deadline. The students affected will be notified directly about a new deadline.
It is not possible to receive a pre-approval of the master thesis.
Your overall average mark is calculated as a so-called weighted average. The weighted average is the overall average of all your grades relative to the ECTS weighting of the courses you have completed.
To calculate the weighted average for your programme or parts of your programme, you begin by multiplying all the grades you have earned in the period for which you want to calculate the average with the number of ECTS points that each course is equivalent to. Then you add up the results and divide that number with the number of ECTS points that the given period is equivalent to.
Course 1 | 15 ECTS | Mark 10 | Weight 150 |
Course 2 | 15 ECTS | Mark 02 | Weight 30 |
Course 3 | 20 ECTS | Mark 4 | Weight 80 |
Course 4 | 10 ECTS | Mark 7 | Weight 70 |
In the following, you will find an explanation of the abbreviations, that are used in the studies administration self-service facility (STADS) and examples of when the abbreviations are being used.
U means absent.
Examples: The student fails to show up for the oral or written exam or the student fails to submit an exam paper through Wiseflow.
FE means left exam.
Examples: The student draws a question, but does not want to be examined.
The student uploades a “blank paper” in Wiseflow during an exam.
BF means used attempt.
Examples: The exam paper does not meet the requirement of individualization or other requirements cf. the academic regulations of the study programme.
The student does not meet the prerequisite requirements for attending an exam.
I means not passed.
Examples: The student fails to turn up at all. The student does not participate to the required extend.
DF means failed prerequisite.
Example: Prerequisite requirements to attending the exam/re-exam are not met.
From 2007 onwards rankings of given grades for respectively bachelor projects, master theses and degree programmes in total, have been made for Aarhus BSS and for Aarhus University.
You can find all rankings at Karakterstatistik ved Aarhus BSS og AU (in Danish)