The structure of the exam

The final exam consists of two parts.

In the first part students have to write an entrance test that will be corrected before the written exam. Students have 15 minutes to write the test. The entrance test consists of 15 questions: 10 questions check the knowledge of the standard data, and 5 further questions check the knowledge of the practical courses. Students have to give a minimum of 8 correct answers (over 50%) to pass the entrance test of the final exam. Students who have passed the entrance test are allowed to continue with the written exam. A successful entrance text will not have to be written again.

Student is exempted from the entrance test, if:

the student was in the top 10% of students in the semester prior to the final exam
the Student Essay was rated accordingly
the student was obliged to do the labs neither in the first nor in the second semester of Physiology prior to the exam
the student wrote a successful entrance test on a previous exam

Students who have to take an extended entrance test before the final exam will receive 15 extra test questions from the "not accepted" semester. In case of an unsuccessful exam the extended entrance test will have to be written again.

The written exam consists of three parts and should be completed within 100 minutes.

First, students should fill out a simple-choice test. Maximum 35 points can be collected with the test.
In the second part, students analyze a figure, from a specific chapter. Students will have to interpret the figures by filling out the indicated missing parts or by answering specific questions. Maximum 15 points can be collected with the figure.
In the third part, students should write two essays (unrelated to the chapter covered by the figure). One topic comes from the first semester and the other one comes from the second one. The topic will be selected from the "Topic list for final exam in Physiology". Required subtopics will be listed, if necessary. Maximum 50 points can be collected by the essay questions, 25 points each.

Students can collect maximum 100 points. For passing the exam, a student has to reach at more than 33 % on the simple choice test, more 25 % on the figure and the essays, and should collect more than 50 points total.