Each NTA is granted individually and is intended to compensate for your very personal impairment for a very specific study or examination performance. Therefore, you will not find fixed specifications for measures here, but numerous examples of what an NTA can look like. Please also speak with the lecturer responsible for your course about which measures would help you to provide the required performance.

Examples of compensation for disadvantages are:

• Breaks during exams (without loss of time)
• Separate rooms for an exam
• Replacement of the examination form, i.e., converting oral exams to written exams, term papers to presentations, group exams to individual exams (or vice versa in each case)
• Time extensions in exams or deadline extensions for submissions
• Spreading out of examination phases
• Use of technical aids and/or personal assistance
• Replacement of mandatory attendance in a course with another compensatory performance
• Splitting or rescheduling internship times

It is important when finding measures that the NTA compensates for your identified disadvantages as fully as possible in the sense of equal opportunity, but does not overcompensate them.

The application for an NTA is made informally and substantiated by the affected student. Your application is addressed to the Examination Committee and requires the following information:

• Specification of the study or examination performance(s) for which compensation is requested
• Details on the impairment, but not necessarily the naming of the diagnosis
• Description of the effects on your health situation with regard to the study or examination situation
• Formulation of a concrete compensation proposal (e.g., extension of writing time by X %, breaks after X minutes, exam tasks in a font size of X); this can be discussed in advance with the lecturer of the affected study or examination performance
• Scanned certificate to confirm the effects of an impairment: suitable here are (specialist) medical certificates or statements from licensed psychotherapists, treatment reports from hospital and rehabilitation stays and/or statements from rehabilitation providers, approval notices from integration assistance providers, severely disabled pass or notification of decision from the pension office, etc. (Note: you must keep the original documents.)

With the help of all this information, the Examination Committee must be able to make a decision on whether the requirements for an NTA are met and whether the proposed compensatory measures are appropriate, even without medical expertise.

It is important that you submit your application for NTA in good time before the start of the relevant examination or study performance so that both the processing of the application and the organizational implementation of the NTA can be ensured. The NTA should be submitted to the examiner no later than 4 weeks before the registration deadline for the examination expires. If an NTA relates to mandatory attendance in a course, the application must be submitted at the beginning of the semester. An NTA can be applied for for the entire duration of studies if appropriate proof (e.g., medical) of the permanence of the impairment is submitted.

The Examination Committee decides on the application promptly and informs the applicant as well as the Examinations Office. If possible, the NTA is entered in the FlexNow examination system. As soon as you have the Examination Committee's approval for the NTA, please contact the examiner or the module officer as soon as possible to coordinate the logistical details for the implementation of the NTA.

If you need advice before applying for an NTA, please contact us; you will find the contact details in the sidebar on the right.

• If necessary, counseling (contact see sidebar) and/or discussion with lecturer/examiner
• Informal, substantiated application to the Examination Committee (contact see sidebar) by the student (Deadline: at least 4 weeks before the registration deadline for the examination/study performance expires)
• Examination Committee (PK) advises and decides on the application
• PK informs the student
• Student informs lecturer/examiner
• PK informs Examinations Office (PA)
• If necessary, entry of NTA in FlexNow by PA
• Organizational implementation of NTA by PA and possibly lecturer/examiner

If the impairment is permanent, the application for NTA can also be made for a longer period (e.g., for the entire duration of studies). It is also possible to submit an application for several affected study or examination performances at the same time.

If you have concerns that applying for an NTA and thus disclosing your impairment (or illness) could lead to disadvantages for you or even be associated with stigmatization, please be assured here: all parties involved at the university, from advisory institutions to lecturers to the Examination Committee, are obliged to maintain confidentiality and secrecy towards third parties. The application and the granting of compensation for disadvantages are not mentioned in the final certificate.

In principle, the entitlement to compensation for disadvantages is derived from articles of the Basic Law and the Lower Saxony Higher Education Act. Specifically, the General Examination Regulations for Bachelor's and Master's degree programs as well as other study offerings at the University of Göttingen (APO, current version: AM I No. 5 of 10.02.2023) contain various formulations and contents regarding regulations for compensation for disadvantages (§21 Protective Provisions) and regarding participation in courses (§14, Para. 5 Access and Admission to Modules and Examination Performances).

At no point during your interaction with us or during the application process is it necessary to name a specific diagnosis. However, this may be useful for the Examination Committee's decision-making as to whether the measures you applied for are adequate for your disadvantage. Under certain circumstances, it may still be possible to infer a diagnosis from the application even if it is not named. Your sensitive data will of course be treated confidentially and may only be made accessible to bodies involved in the decision and implementation. The actual application and submitted evidence are deleted after completion of the procedure and expiration of a short retention period. The approved measure for compensation for disadvantages is permanently stored in the electronic student file (ESA). The data protection regulations of the University of Göttingen apply.