Tutorial Attendance Requirements
Obligation to attend
An obligation to attend at least 70% applies to the tutorials for the bachelor-1 and bachelor-2 courses.
If you have not registered for a tutorial in time, you cannot fulfil the tutorial obligation and therefore you cannot pass the course!
Exemption of the obligation to attend
The following students are exempt from the obligation to attend 70% of the tutorials for bachelor-1 and bachelor-2 courses:
- pre-master students;
- part-time students;
- Erasmus Colleges course members.
Students who have rounded off their entire Bachelor-1 programme in a single year with a weighted average of 7.0 or higher do not have to comply with the minimum obligation to attend 70% for bachelor-2 courses in a following academic year.
N.B. Students who are exempted from the obligation to attend, but want to particpate in a tutorial meeting after all, should register for a tutorial group themselves. This is important if you want to take part in a tutorial test or assignment (grades for intermediate tests and/or assignments are only valid in the academic year in which they were obtained). You cannot participate in tutorial tests or assignments without being registered for a tutorial group.
Repeaters
Repeaters are exempt from the obligation to attend 70% of the tutorials of a specific course if:
- You have met the obligation to attend in a former academic year and
- You have participated in an examination for the course in question in that same academic year.
If you meet these requirements, you have obtained a valid, though unsufficient, result. A valid result is registered in OSIRIS.
Repeaters should always register for the special repeaters group (RCDV group).
If you do not meet these requirements (for example if you have met the obligation to attend, but failed to make the examination), you should register for a normal tutorial group and attend at least 70% of the tutorials.
Registration of exemption
If you are eligible for one of these regulations you can check in SIN-Online for each course whether the exemption from the obligation to participate in the practicals for that course has been granted.
Establishment of your grade
If you are exempt to attend 70% of the tutorials, the final grade for the course concerned will be established on the basis of the examination score, if necessary averaged - if applicable - with valid grades for intermediate tests and/or assignments.
Grades for intermediate tests and/or assignments are only valid in the academic year in which they were obtained.
Failed to meet the obligation to attend
If you have failed to meet the obligation to attend, your result for the course in question will be declared invalid. In OSIRIS this will be registered as 'GGR' (no valid result).
In this case you will not be able to obtain a valid result during the retakes in July and you will need to repeat the course in a following academic year.
Force majeure
It might happen that you have not met the attendance requirements because of circumstances beyond your control. In that case you can request the examination board to validate your result after all. The examination board will judge if force majeure is indeed the matter and will take your (non-)attendance of all tutorials of the course into account.
Planned activities, such as holidays, are never considered to be circumstances beyond your control.
You can write a request to the examination board with the use of a request form, which can be downloaded from www.ese.eur.nl/examinationboard. You can only hand in this request after the block has finished and the tutorial attendance registration and the examination have ended.
