Leistungen A-Z

This examination is intended to enable exceptionally talented applicants who have a special aptitude for a particular subject area to gain access to a university course by acquiring the nationally recognized general higher education entrance qualification.

Applicants are expected to have a very good aptitude for an academic subject as well as knowledge and skills relevant to their studies and a broad general education.

The gifted and talented examination is not an institution of the second educational pathway that leads to the Abitur via a school-based course of education. Preparation for the examination takes place privately.

• Main residence in Brandenburg
• Minimum age: 25 years
• At least five years of professional activity after completion of vocational training or at least seven years of professional activity after an early final examination of vocational training
  Running a family household is treated in the same way as other professional activities. This applies to households
  • with at least three persons or
  • in exceptional cases with at least one person in need of education or care.
• Special aptitude and appropriate, varied education
  You must provide evidence of this in the form of documents or possibly in a preliminary interview.
  
  You may not participate in the following cases:
• You have already unsuccessfully attempted to obtain a general or subject-specific higher education entrance qualification or entrance qualification for universities of applied sciences.
• You have a subject-restricted higher education entrance qualification and have the opportunity to take a supplementary examination to obtain a general higher education entrance qualification.

• Curriculum vitae with detailed information about
  • the educational background to date,
  • the professional activity pursued,
  • academic employment and
  • the desired career goal
• all school leaving certificates
• Proof of vocational training and professional achievements
• information about
  • the chosen academic subject area,
  • the areas of specialization in the individual subjects and
  • the intended course of study
• two reports on aptitude, performance and level of education, particularly in the chosen subject area
• a declaration that you have not taken any of the following examinations and have not applied for admission to them:
  • ordinary Abitur examination
  • Abitur examination for non-school leavers
  • Examination for admission to university studies without a school-leaving certificate
  • Examination for the entrance qualification for universities of applied sciences
• a passport photo
• Proof of German citizenship

Note: You must submit officially certified copies of all certificates. The competent authority may also require the originals to be submitted.

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You must submit an informal written application for admission to the examination.

The written examination comprises

• a scientific subject area of your choice
• German
• Mathematics or a foreign language (English, French, Latin)

The examination lasts between 240 and a maximum of 300 minutes.

After passing the written part, the oral examination takes place as an individual examination. It covers

• the chosen academic subject area,
• mathematics, if a foreign language was examined in writing, or a foreign language if mathematics was examined in writing, and
• a subject from subject group 1 (physics, chemistry, biology) or a subject from subject group 2 (history, geography). The subject group is determined upon admission. Applicants choose the examination subject from the subject group.

The oral examination usually lasts one and a half to two hours. The examination time is divided roughly equally between the individual subjects.

To pass the exam, you must achieve at least five points in each subject in both the written and oral parts of the exam.

After passing the exam, you will be awarded the general higher education entrance qualification.

By August 1 for the examination in the following year.

the respective university

• § Section 9 of the Brandenburg Higher Education Act (BbgHG)

Ministry of Science, Research and Culture of the State of Brandenburg