Missed registration deadline that was not announced for second exam of a course, how should I proceed? I am an undergraduate student in Germany.
Due to scheduling problems I couldn't attend an exam last semester. Subsequently, because of COVID-19, the date for the second exam was unknown. To register for an exam you need to access the list where all university courses are listed, and then just click on the exam and press on a participate button. I did not want to register for the second exam before the date was announced, because I did not want to have this show up in my grades if I did not attend.
The professor only sent the e-mail of the date of the exam to those registered for the second exam, excluding the students otherwise registered for the course or the first exam. Also, no information on the second exam is available on the course page. Yesterday, I got an e-mail from the professor about hygiene and covid measures in the exam which apparently is this Friday. Also, the deadline for entering was 2 weeks ago. In all the other courses I participated in, all attendants of the course got information for the second exam.
After explaining the situation to the professor I got the answer that attending now is not possible.
This is an incredibly bad situation for me. My whole plan on finishing my degree in time depends on passing this exam. Otherwise I won't be able to attend a lot of courses that have this course as a prerequisite. Effectively, I will need a year longer to finish my bachelors.
How shall I proceed? Do I have any rights for a third exam in this situation?
As proposed by @Sumyrda - remember Monica, I post my comment as a possible solution.
As a lecturer at a German university, I suggest the following: the informal appraoch is via the lecturer. If s/he does not register you for your exam, try a formal approach via 'Prüfungsausschuss' or the 'Prüfungsamt'. I can only speak for a few institution I worked for (from rather small to bigger universities): the processes are quite different and thus are your option to register for tests, exams or written essays, etc. Since COVID19, universities have opened processes here and there for exceptions, especially concerning third tries on exams and registration processes. However, these are regulated on a institutional, often even on a chair-basis.