As with all PI courses, attendance is a requirement to pass EBC1. As a special concession, you may miss up to two (2) meetings of your LV. However, if you miss a third, you will automatically fail the course. This condition applies whatever the reasons for your absences may have been.
If you satisfy the attendance requirement above, your final score will be made up of the following three elements:
- Mid-Semester Test - 20%
- Home Exercise - 5%
- Participation - 5%
- Final Test - 70%
In general, no dictionaries or other reference materials are allowed in the two tests.Exceptionally, if you are neither a German nor an English native speaker, you may use a bilingual dictionary of German and your mother tongue (but NOT any form of electronic translation device) in the Final Test only.
If you do not take the Mid-Semester Test or submit the Home Exercise, and you attend no classes after Unit 5, you will receive no grade, and you will not lose an 'Antritt'. Otherwise your grade will be based on your final score, as follows:
- 0-59% - grade 5
- 60-67% - grade 4
- 68-75% - grade 3
- 76-84% - grade 2
- 85-100% - grade 1
EBC 1 is a PI class, so if you receive a grade 5 you will have to re-take it in a later semester in full (i.e., including class attendance and all 4 assessment elements).