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English/Key Competences


Placement and Registration for English Courses in the Summer Semester 2025

  • Placement test for law students
    on 27 and 28 March 2025, 09:00 - 17:00, registration required; Link to registration will be provided HERE in January 2025
  • Course catalogue: Available from 15 March 2024 in PULS
  • Placement test for students from all other disciplines - except law students - between 31 March and 04 April and, for latecomers, on 11 April 2025, from 09:00 - 17:00
    All necessary information (link to the test and the practice test, login) will be available on this website from 31 March 2025, 08:00 a.m.
  • Registration for courses via PULS: As of 01 March 2025 - via PULS only
  • Admission to courses: From 03 April 2025
  • Late registration and late admission: Until 15 April 2025
  • Courses start for students admitted via PULS: Week from 07 April 2025


Important Information about Participation in English / Key Competences Courses

  1. Participating in a course is only possible when students have taken a placement test and then registered for and been successfully admitted to the course via PULS (unless you are a member of staff).
  2. Participating in language courses is generally free of cost for students who are enrolled at German universities as well as University of Potsdam exchange students.
  3. Fees for UNIcert exams and DAAD language certificates will be charged in accordance with the Zessko Schedule of Fees (Gebührensatzung des Zessko).

Students in the teacher-training Bachelor degree programme, Erasmus, Master, and PhD students as well as members of staff can be admitted to courses only when the size of the group does not exceed 20 students. Admission to the course then takes place, if possible, in the first week of the lecture period.