How to sit exams or resits abroad

Your University of Leeds January exams might clash with the start of semester 2 at your home university.

When this happens, you can usually take your University of Leeds January exams at your home university. Sometimes the assessment format means you must take your exams in Leeds.

Apply to sit exams at your home university

To apply to take your January exams at your home university, follow these steps: 

1. Get approval from your home university to take your Leeds on-campus exams on site.
2. Get an official letter from your home university to confirm there’s a clash between the University of Leeds exam timetable and their teaching timetable.
3. Check with your University of Leeds teaching school for each of your modules that you can take the assessment away from Leeds.
4. Ask your University of Leeds teaching school whether each module assessment is a sit-down exam that needs external arrangements for you to sit it abroad. Get an email from your University of Leeds school confirming this.
5. Complete the request to take resit exams abroad form.

You may need to pay a fee to your home university for their services – contact them for further information.

Deadline

The deadline for exchange/Erasmus/study abroad students to apply to sit examinations overseas in January 2024 is 27 November 2024.

Semester 1 and 2 exams

You may be eligible to take your semester 1 and 2 on-campus exams or external resits abroad if any of the following apply: 

• your permanent home address is outside the UK and you are registered as an external student.
• you’re a University of Leeds student working or studying abroad as part of your programme.  
• you’re an exchange/Erasmus/study abroad student at the University of Leeds who has already returned home to complete your studies.
• you’re a semester 1 exchange student and the University of Leeds examination/assessment period in January clashes with your home institution’s teaching patterns.

August resit exams

You may be eligible to take your on-campus resit (or approved further first attempt) examinations abroad if any of the following apply: 

• your permanent home address is outside the UK
• you are a University of Leeds student working or studying abroad as part of your programme
• you are an exchange/study abroad student at the University of Leeds who has already returned home
• you are a semester 1 exchange student and the University of Leeds examination/assessment period in January clashes with your home institution’s teaching patterns. 

If you live outside the UK, the location where you take your exam must be in your home country.

If you’re working or studying abroad as part of your programme, the location where you resit must be in the country where you are working or studying.

The assessment must be suitable for you to take outside the University.

The place where you take the exam must be a suitable environment, for example, the British Council or your home/study abroad university.

You should first check if you can sit the assessment away from Leeds. You’ll also need to check the assessment is a sit-down exam that needs external arrangements.  

Do this by checking with your school for each module. Find school contact details. 

Steps to apply to take exams abroad

To apply to resit your exams abroad, follow these steps: 

1. You must apply for your resits before applying to take your exams/resits abroad. Apply to resit on the results and resit application page on Minerva. when final results are released. For results publication dates, see the results page.
2. To apply to take your exams/resits abroad, you must also complete the request to take resit exams abroad form. 
3. You only need to make an overseas application if your reassessment is for written on-campus examinations. 
4. For coursework only or an online assessment, you only need to indicate your intention to resit on Minerva.

The deadlines for each exam period to apply to resit overseas in 2025 are:  

Semester 1 exams

• 27 November 2024

Semester 2 exams

• 14 March 2025

August resits

• 16 July 2025

If you miss the deadline

If you miss the application deadline it may not be possible for the Assessment and Progress team to arrange for you to take exams overseas.

You’ll get an email to let you know if it isn’t possible to make arrangements. The email will inform you that you must return to the University of Leeds for your exams.

For August resits, the application form will be closed from the deadline and no further requests will be accepted.