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Are you a trainee lawyer or law student and would like to find out more about the procedure of the second state law examination? In this case, you can find information here.

With the successful completion of the second state law examination, your legal preparatory service or the examination procedure ends. Upon successful completion of the examination, you acquire the qualification to hold the office of judge and are entitled to use the title "assessor".

After successful completion of the examination, a certificate will be issued by the State Judicial Examination Office.

In Lower Saxony, eight exams of five hours each and an oral examination must be completed. The oral examination consists of a presentation of the file and four examination interviews.

If the second state law examination is not passed in the first attempt, it can be repeated once.

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Note: You must submit the required documents when you are hired for the preparatory service or acquire them during the recruitment process.

In order to register for the examinations (written examinations and oral examinations), a valid photo ID must be presented as proof of identity.

You have successfully completed the first state law examination or another legal examination recognized as equivalent and the legal preparatory service.

There are no fees for taking the exam for the first time.

The grade improvement procedure costs 400 €. If the procedure is terminated prematurely, pro rata costs (€400, €370 or €150) will be reimbursed depending on the time of termination.

• Admission to the examination takes place automatically after successful completion of the training stations, so that a separate application for admission is not necessary.
• In Lower Saxony, 8 exams of 5 hours each and an oral examination must be completed. The oral examination consists of a presentation of the file and four examination interviews (civil law, criminal law, public law, lawyer). The field of law of the presentation of the file follows the field of law of training in the elective station.
• The summons to the exams is issued by the respective Higher Regional Court where the preparatory service is performed.
• The exams are evaluated by two examiners. If there is no consensus on the assessment, the average value of the assessments shall be determined in the event of deviations of up to three points. In the event of a larger deviation, a third examiner will evaluate the examination performance. The evaluation must be within the framework of the first two evaluations.
• The oral examination is carried out by an examination board consisting of four examiners.
• A 60-minute preparation time is available for the file presentation. The acceptance of the file presentation takes about 20 minutes. Each test specimen is tested individually.
• The examination interviews following the presentation of the file of the last examinee take place together with all examinees.

• In Lower Saxony, the examination procedure from the preparation of the exams to the acceptance of the oral examination usually takes six months. If a repeat examination becomes necessary, the examination procedure is extended by approx. three months.
• The grade improvement process also takes six months.

• You must apply for the application for grade improvement at the Examinations Office at least 2 weeks before the desired examination date. You must also pay the examination fee within this period. If there is a shorter period of time between the first oral examination and the next examination date, you can still take the retake to improve your grades on the third examination date following the oral examination.
• The sub-area of law from which the file presentation from the respective elective area is to be taken must be declared to the State Judicial Examination Office at least two months before the end of the elective station.
• The application for grade improvement must be submitted to the State Judicial Examination Office within three months of the announcement of the result of the examination successfully passed in the first attempt. Admission is subject to the payment of the examination fee.

Objections to administrative acts based on an assessment of examination performance are reviewed in a preliminary procedure (objection).

• The second state examination in law is the completion of the legal clerkship
• Acquisition of the qualification to hold judicial office
• Registration for the first examination takes place automatically without a separate admission decision
• Admission to the grade improvement must be applied for in writing

• Acceptance of the state examinations: Lower Saxony Ministry of Justice - State Judicial Examination Office -
• Preparatory service: Higher Regional Courts in Braunschweig, Celle and Oldenburg