Marks and results

As soon as a teacher has registered a (final) result, you can see the grade in the Results overview in your dashboard. In the Results overview, you can find your (final) marks in a well-organised way and you can export your grade list. Depending on the subject or programme, you will also find partial marks. It gives you insight into the progress of your studies to eventually obtain your diploma. So check your grades regularly.

Make sure your results in the Results overview are complete and correct. If any grades are missing or incorrect, you can send the faculty a request for correction. This can be done using the form List of results incorrect (Medicine students: mail to toetsbeheer.vu@amsterdamumc.nl). If you are a secondary subject (or minor) student, you can use the form VU Secondary Subject - List of results incorrect. When doing so, indicate what exactly is incorrect.

Go to your Results overview and click on ‘Export results overview’*. If you take several courses, you can also indicate here whether you want an overview of all grades or only of a specific course. Then indicate in which format you want to receive the overview: as a PDF or Excel file. Additionally, you can choose whether to include partial marks and insufficient marks.

You will be shown an example of the choice you have made. Check carefully that the results are complete and correct. You get a Dutch- or English-language overview of your results that you can print yourself. 

_{*No rights can be derived from the export.}

A result overview provided with a VU stamp (and a signature) is an official document. This only shows the final results of courses that have been successfully completed, without courses you have not (yet) completed (e.g. due to a fail, NVD or NS). You may need it for a job application or an application for a (new) study programme, for example. You can request the document via the Results overview by clicking on ‘Results overview with VU stamp’. You have two options:

1. A results overview with VU stamp
   Select the programme and language in which you want to receive the overview and click on ‘Request’. The document will be sent directly to your VU email address. On this document, there won't be a VU signature but only a VU stamp.
2. A results overview with VU stamp and signature
   This type of overview can only be requested if the overview from option 1 is insufficient.
   You can request a results overview with VU stamp and signature using the form Official certified grade transcript. Complete the form in full and state the reason for your request. The results overview will then be sent by email. If desired, you can also request the overview directly at the Student Desk and receive a physical copy on the spot.

Please note! Check your grades yourself before requesting an overview.

The teacher/course coordinator will inform you about the time and date of the inspection moment. Visit the inspection moment and check your grade and assessment. If you disagree with your result, discuss it immediately with the teacher/course coordinator who is present. If you do not come to an agreement, proceed to step 2.

Have you been to the inspection moment but still did not come to an agreement regarding your result? Please contact the course coordinator. Was the coordinator present at the inspection moment and did you already discuss your result or are you unable to come to an agreement? Then proceed to step 3.

You can lodge an appeal with the Examination Appeals Board (COBEX) via cobex.bz@vu.nl. You can only appeal against the way in which the assessment was made, not the result itself. The appeal must include a name, student number, postal address and VU email address as well as the grounds for the appeal. Go to the Disputes Procedure for more information on how to file an appeal.

External results are results you obtained for courses you took outside your study programme. These may be subjects that you took at VU Amsterdam itself or at another educational institution. You can submit the results of these courses as external results and have them count towards your own programme.

If you have followed an (extra-curricular) course within the VU from another study programme and/or faculty, you need to request permission from the examination board to have the course counted within your study programme. The result will be passed on internally; you do not have to do anything yourself. Your own programme will ensure that the course for which you have received approval will count towards your curriculum. 

If you have obtained an (additional) result at an educational institution other than the VU and outside collaboration with the UvA, you can submit an external grade. You are responsible for ensuring that the VU has access to the result obtained and the credits.

• Through the form, upload the official result overview showing the externally obtained result. Official means on letterhead of the university where you obtained the result and provided with a signature.
• The VU reserves the right to request the original result overview at any time up to the moment of graduation. So keep this document well.
• Check that your result has been processed in your result overview within two weeks.