ELTE Regulations for Students
The ways and means of organizing the courses and measuring students’ performance are defined in detail in the Regulations of ELTE, specifically in the Academic Regulations for Students (ELTE Organisational and Operational Regulations – Volume 2)
You can find the actual version of ARS on the Questura website: Documents/Regulations menu.
As a student at our Faculty, you will have to pay attention to some important rules of education. It is your responsibility to inform yourself about these rules and to do your best to adhere to them.
It is also important to pay attention to the Curriculum and the prerequisite-system: please make sure that you are familiar with these and that you understand the consequences of failing a subject.
This is a several hundred pages long document, but we recommend everyone to at least flip through the pages 215-223, where you can find the regulations that are specific to the Faculty of Informatics.
Important rules of education
- Practice courses are mandatory to attend. If you miss more occasions than allowed (which is usually 3), then you will not get a practical mark.
- Starting from September 2019, lectures are also mandatory to attend. If you miss more occasions than allowed, you cannot take the exam.
- If you get a „1 (fail)” mark from a practice course, you have one more opportunity in that semester to pass the course by taking a retake exam.
- After six „1 (fail)” marks from a course, your student status will be terminated.
- You can only register for a course 3 times; if you do not pass it on the third occasion, your student status will be terminated. You have the right to hand in a written request to the Vice-Dean for Education asking for a 4th chance. (If you already have six fail grades from the course, the request will be declined.) This request has to be handed in within a week of the end of the exam period (Neptun request)
- At the end of the exam period, make sure that all the grades you received are registered correctly in Neptun. You have one week after the end of the exam period to let us know if a grade is registered incorrectly.
- You can try 3 times in one semester to pass an exam from a lecture course. If the exam opportunity in the is granted in every semester, then you only have two chances.
- Every student is required to complete at least 30 credits in their first 4 semesters, otherwise we have to terminate their student status. (Passive semesters do not count in this.) There are also stricter rules in place for Stipendium Hungaricum students about credit numbers; these are dictated by Tempus Public Foundation and not our faculty, please make sure you are aware of them.
- If you have not completed the prerequisites of a course yet, then you cannot register for that course. The prerequisite-system is in place for a reason and you should take it seriously. You have the right to hand in a prerequisite-weakening request, but it will only be accepted in special cases. The request has to be supported and signed by the responsible teacher of the course AND the relevant department head before you hand it in. Such requests might be accepted if the student is already at an advanced stage of his/her studies, and if there are very good reasons behind it that are explained in detail. These types of requests have to be handed in until the end of the first week of the term season.
- If you do not register for the next semester after two consecutive passive semesters, your student status will be teminated.
Requests
The listed rules are in place for a reason, and in general, they cannot be overruled. If your circumstances are special, you may hand in a request to the Vice-Dean for Education, who will then decide about your situation.
Some requests have to be handed in on paper to your course coordinator, others can be handed in through Neptun.
These are the forms for requests handed in on paper:
- general request form
- prerequisite weakening request
- uniquely tailored study arrangement request
- 3rd exam request
Fill out the prerequisite weakening form if this is what you are requesting. Please note that the prerequisite-system is in place for a reason, and some courses are so strongly built on each other that the teachers will not support such a request. These requests can be handed in until Friday of the first week of the study period.
If you failed the exam twice in a given examination period, and this course is available in cross-semesters (which means you only have two exam opportunities in one semester), then you might request a 3rd exam by filling out that form.
Important deadlines
- registration – setting the active/passive semester – the end of the registration week (in Neptun)
- course registration – 1st week Friday of the educational period (in Neptun)
- application of accepting earned credits of a course (see credit transfer) – registration week
- deadline for paying the tution fee – 15 October/15 March (in Neptun)
- application for a prerequisite weakening – 1st week Friday of the educational period
- late course registration/drop – 2nd week Friday of the educational period (in Neptun)
- termination of the student status – anytime, no deadline (in Neptun)
- Request for a 3rd exam – 5th Friday of the exam period
- Equity request for 4th course registration – 1st Firday after exam period (in Neptun)
- Disagreement with the grades written in Neptun – 1st Firday after exam period (in Neptun)
- Deadlines about Thesis/Final examination
- Deadlines about internship