ORGANISATION OF THE EXAMINATION
The examination will be held every year in Hannover Veterinary School and will be taken in the English language.
RESULTS OF EXAMINATION
a) Candidates are required to satisfactorily complete all parts of the certification examination. Successful candidates are certified as a "Veterinary Pathologist". All certified persons are designated as Diplomates of the European College of Veterinary Pathologists (Dipl. E.C.V.P.).
(b) A candidate who takes the examination and passes two or more parts, retains credit for the parts passed for the next four years, provided a mark of more than 30% has been attained in each of the failed parts. Two additional attempts to pass the failed parts are permitted within these four years.
(c) Candidates who do not pass the failed parts within the four successive years as described above must reapply as new candidates and retake all parts.
(d) Candidates who attempt all parts of the examination and who fail four or all five parts can retake all parts of the examination and apply for an unlimited number of retakes. Once they pass two or more parts, point (b) above applies.
(e) Candidates who wish to retake the part(s) failed must announce their intentions in a letter received by the Secretary, postmarked not later than 1st August of the year preceding that in which they wish to retake the examination accompanied, by a fee of 250 EURO.
(f) New candidates and retake applicants must send in a new application form.
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(g) A candidate who fails a certifying examination may request that the marks of the parts failed be retotalled to verify the accuracy of the results reported. The verification process is not intended to evaluate the content or interpretation of the examination or candidate responses but to determine that the scores are correctly totaled. Such requests must be received in writing, accompanied by a fee of 100 EURO, within 30 days of the date of mailing of the results of the examination to the candidate.
WITHDRAWAL / ILLNESS
Withdrawal prior to the examination, or failure to appear for the examination will count as one of the four successive years for repeat candidates with two or more parts already passed. In the event that a candidate starts, but is unable to complete the examination, for example due to serious illness, results will be determined for all sections for which the candidate is scheduled, regardless of the number of sections completed. Points (b) and (d) above summarize how such a situation will be dealt with.
This page was last updated
March 11, 2009
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