Not doing exam cos of the snow

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hahahha are you joking!?!?!

Nope unfortunately not.. Thought I might get out of my Spanish re sit yesterday cos of it, unfortunately I didn't :frown:

Reply 21

`Jts

Luckily I have no exams today but for people who do have exams , they can come in if they are able to. If they can't, they'll get a free resit in the summer.

College is closed for everyone else though! :smile:

Reply 22

concubine

I did a load of exams at home whilst really ill.

I also did a load in winter, after lots of snow, a week after a friend had died.

People need to stop being such ****ing pussies and making excuses for everything.

Reply 23

letsbehonest

School just finished 50 minutes early .. sigh

Reply 24

vdoto

At my sixth form, everyone was sent home in the morning :smile:

Then there were exams this afternoon which were pushed back at an earlier time as the snow is getting worse in London. I don't have any exams today but I would have hated for it to be cancelled for a resit in the summer tbh, would have been a waste revising.

Reply 25

t()m

Original post by dendodge

Nope. My college is running all the exams and telling us to turn up, even if it means leaving home at 4am and walking through three feet of snow.

They did move an exam this afternoon form 1:30 to 1:00, though, so people can get home before the heavy snowfall that's been predicted for tonight hits.

This is what I just had to s1 we started earlier so we would get stuck at school , all the teachers were twitchy cause they wanted to go home.

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Reply 26

Alexandra's Box

Exams are still going on at my college, but lessons are cancelled. The snow isn't bad here anyway though.
Sorry to hear about yours OP, that's really annoying. Good luck :smile:

Reply 27

suncake

I'm really curious to know how much snow you're all getting, for your exams/lessons to be cancelled. Had about 15cm piling up here and everything's normal, but I guess all the major roads have been cleared so there's not much disruption.

Reply 28

The Wild Youth

I had my English Lit' exam today. Getting there was fine, took the bus like normal, took 40 minutes.

Getting back. Oh my life. It took 3 hours. I ended up getting off the bus as we hadn't moved in over an hour, walked 2 miles to a train station, waited for the delayed train for 30 minutes, caught the the busiest train of my entire life, got into the city, walked down to catch the bus which I then found out were cancelled, walked up to my friend's work, waited for him to finish his shift then got a lift to my village then walked the next mile home.

I'm currently curled up in bed with hot chocolate. Ahhh, it was so bad :biggrin:

EDIT: forgot to mention that I had to do all of this in a skirt and tight without boots as my college have an 'office smart' dress code; it was the cherry on the cake.

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Reply 29

username807367

Original post by suncake

We've had less than that but it's a very rural area, most people come from the town next to school but about half come from little villages all around the area that are on hilly, small, twisty roads that don't get gritted, it genuinely wouldn't be safe for about half the school and a good chunk of the teachers to come to school.

Plus they know no one in main school would be able to concentrate, they'd just be playing in the snow then coming into lessons soaking wet. It would be pointless.

Exams weren't cancelled though, I got there and there were 2 teachers, a receptionist and an invigilator waiting with a few desks set up in the main hall. They also relaxed my schools rule about staying for the full time of the exam, they said if we were sure we were finished we could leave at any point after an hour.

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Reply 30

Xx.MissEG.xX

Original post by h0llyyx

Nope unfortunately not.. Thought I might get out of my Spanish re sit yesterday cos of it, unfortunately I didn't :frown:

Did a teacher come and get you? :biggrin:

Reply 31

Xx.MissEG.xX

Original post by The Wild Youth

EDIT: forgot to mention that I had to do all of this in a skirt and tight without boots as my college have an 'office smart' dress code; it was the cherry on the cake.

Me too! I had English LITB1, I was panicking the night before in case the buses weren't running, luckily they were.

Then going back was awful, took an hour and a half extra. I was freezing, I couldn't feel my feet. Our college got cancelled at 12:30.

Happy I'm finally home! :biggrin:

Reply 32

Emma:-)

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My 6th form never used to cancel exams either. Even when it snowed bad a couple of times. They moved the times slightly a couple of times, so people could go home earlier (with afternoon exams), or have more time to get into school (with morning exams), but they still went ahead.

Reply 33

Data

Original post by yasminxx

oh thats ok then! yeah i have a feeling they'll make the re-sit ones really hard in june

They're not re-sit ones, it's the main time to do them and they'll have written them already.

Reply 34

Data

Original post by yasminxx

hahahha are you joking!?!?!

It's what happens at my school.

Reply 35

Data

Original post by Danatlive

All exams in my college have been called off, prepared so well for the exam today and it's all gone to waste. If you do badly in the resit is it classed as a mitigating circumstance?

Afraid not. It will be treated in the same way as anyone else taking an exam.

Reply 36

Gold Phoenix

Original post by h0llyyx

At my sixth form the teachers come get you and drive you in if it snows!

dedicated teachers. Lol

Reply 37

Gold Phoenix

Original post by The Wild Youth

EDIT: forgot to mention that I had to do all of this in a skirt and tight without boots as my college have an 'office smart' dress code; it was the cherry on the cake.

#YOLO

Im sure you smashed the exam.

Reply 38

Y07jamesp

I was supposed to have my maths S1 paper today but after all the revision I had done the exam was cancelled at 12 30, 30 mins before it was supposed to start! And when everyone complained we were told that it would be unsafe to do so.

So now I have to do the resit in summer and I have wasted all this time revising for the exam when I could of been spending it revising for my other 5 exams I had in January (2 being next week still I hope these don't also get cancelled as that would mean I have 3 extra exams in summer) :sad: