When am I bound to a course?

Binding courses

If you do not withdraw from your first exam attempt in a course before the deadline, it will count as a used exam attempt. That means the course is binding and becomes part of your programme specification, cf. the rules for registration and withdrawal from exams on student.dtu.dk under 'Study rules/Exam/Registration and withdrawal'. You must pass the course to complete your programme.

In the case of documented illness at the first examination attempt in the course and the subsequent registration 'ill', you are no longer bound by the course. However, you must still ensure they follow the study plan outlined in your curriculum.

On student.dtu.dk, under 'Study rules/Exemption', you can read about the possibility of applying for cancellation of an exam registration if you have not participated in the exam and about the rules of applying for an exemption to be released from a binding course.

You can find the exam registration and withdrawal deadlines on student.dtu.dk under 'Exam/Registration and withdrawal from exam/Registration and withdrawal deadlines'.

The rules regarding when an exam attempt has been used can be found on student.dtu.dk under 'Study rules/Exam/Assessment form and Gradings'. 

Special rules apply to project courses. More information is available at student.dtu.dk under 'Study rules/Teaching/Project courses'.

You cannot take pre-approved or credit-transferred courses to replace one or more courses you are bound by. The head of studies cannot grant you an exemption from this rule.

If you are a BEng or BSc student and you are bound by a master's course you have not passed, you can request to be released from the course by writing to studiedispensation@adm.dtu.dk via your student email with a reason and stating which other course you wish to take instead. You must register for the new course.

Courses no longer offered
If a course is no longer offered, you can, if you have lready used exam attempts in the course but have not passed the course, be released from the course by contacting the Study Administration at studadm@adm.dtu.dk via your student email. That applies regardless of how many examination attempts you have made in the course and whether a re-exam is still offered in the course. Used exam attempts are not transferred to a new course unless the terminated course is identical to a new course you register for. Read about 'blocked courses' at student.dtu.dk under 'Study rules/Teaching/Regarding course descriptions'.  

However, you must still observe the curriculum of your study programme. If the terminated course is compulsory in the curriculum, you will be bound by the course that replaces it, and the exam attempts are transferred if the two courses are identical (cf. above). If it is not stated in the curriculum which course you must take as a replacement for a discontinued compulsory course, you must contact your Head of Study.

The above also includes courses that get a new course number but are actually offered again, merely with a new course number. 

Read about the option for being released from a binding course if the course is cancelled at student.dtu.dk under 'Study rules/Teaching/Course registration'.