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Hayfever/Cold during exams?

At the moment (perfect timing) I'm suffering from a hayfevery mixed with a cold attack. I'm feeling a bit better now but no doubt tomorrow when I have an exam I'll still feel a bit groggy and bleh. :rolleyes:

Do you think there is any point telling my teacher/the invigilator, because I doubt it'll make any difference? I'm just a bit worried they'll laugh in my face and tell me to get over it :redface:

Reply 1

crazy4it2007

1

The only way you will be able to miss an exam is if you have a medical note or something from your GP, anything else then you have to attend.

Reply 2

LucyA

OP

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crazy4it2007

The only way you will be able to miss an exam is if you have a medical note or something from your GP, anything else then you have to attend.

I don't want to miss the exam :redface:

I was asking about when I'm actually there. :wink:

Reply 3

Alec3

I don't know how you feel but it doesn't sound that serious.

I had a cold for much of my past few exams but I went in. The teacher had to give me a tissue during history which I held to my nose the whole time and had nearly fallen apart by the end.

Let me do the teachers' work for them and tell you to get over it.

Edit: Oh, you don't want to miss the exam. In that case, you might as well tell your teachers. You haven't got anything to lose but I don't see what they might be able to do to help you. Maybe write a note on the exam, but I don't know if it would help you much.

Reply 4

LucyA

OP

2

Ok, thanks :smile:

It's just I was ill the same way during my mocks and some of my grades suffered for it.

Thanks again :smile:

Reply 5

kellywood_5

17

I doubt anything would be done for a cold/hayfever, to be honest, since special consideration is only given for serious illness and there's nothing else that can really be done, but I hope you feel better by tomorrow and good luck! :smile:

Take lots of tissues!

Reply 6

kezzle

I know what you mean, i used to have that it's annoying because when people would complain about the people snorting after the exam id have to keep schtum. So i recommend buying two packs of airwaves it really helps, you'll probly need to go through 2 or 3 during the exam. Hope that helps

Reply 7

LadyJaneGrey

1

Hey, you'd be surprised. AQA give like 2% more for people with hayfever, check it out...http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/uk_news/4527129.stm

I had a hayfever/cold attack last weekend, and my teachers were telling me to go the doctor. The doctor can give you like an injection or tablets or something... I mean, I've never gone to the doctors for hayfever, just taken Clarityn and suffered! But because it's exams, you want to be on top form and so your doctor won't think you a hypochondriac and should be able to help you.

Reply 8

jonnymoblin

The injection thing takes weeks of injections and might not work., And you have to pay for it. As a hay-fever guy myself, local honey and over-the-counter Piriteze tablets work for me. Much better than sniffing throughout the exam.

Reply 9

Excalibur

15

Hayfever and colds are one of the annoying things - it can affect your performance but it's not serious enough to get special consideration. I think you'd just have to live with it. But this year I'm thankfully not that bad... go to your GP and get some tablets and nose sprays (apparently nose sprays are the best) prescribed.

Reply 10

logical_zombie

the weather's been good, wet and cold, good if you've got hayfever like me, doubt you'll get any extra marks as before they'd even consider giving you extra marks they'll demand you get given a scribe to write for you or you'll just get extra time, scribe is only if you've got a broken arm so just get over it, you haven't got an excuse because as i said so far the wether's been kind.

Reply 11

Jaztan

you can get an extra 1% for hayfever, but they do check the pollen count on the day.
also you need a doctors note.

Reply 12

Crystal-Rose

if you get a doctors note on the same day as you sat your exam,
the moderators will take into consideration your situation and they may look at your mock mark and coursework marks and be nice with the marking =]

i had to do this for my french modules as i had tonsilitus.

Reply 13

didi997

10

Usually, if you feel ill before an exam, you can tell a teacher or invidulator. You can still take the exam, and if they feel it necessary they will report it to the exam board. That's what they do at my school anyway :smile:

Reply 14

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If you have a doctors note you can have anything from 1-5% depending on the exam board

Reply 15

DarkWhite

17

Weather's been good for me so far; hayfever hasn't affected me too much. I am sniffing a bit, not only a bit, and it's probably from the cold/cough I had last week.

* Recent death of parent or close relative - 5%
* Recent death of distant family member - 4%
* Witness to distressing event on day of exam - 3%
* Hay fever - 2%
* Death of family pet on day of exam - 2%
* Pet dies day before exam - 1%
* Headache - 1%

So, if my Mum and Grandmother are found to have cystic fibrosis and end up dying a week before the exam, I don't know how to feed my cat and therefore he dies, I get a headache thinking about the trauma and it reduces my concentration so I get hit by a car drove by a teacher on the way to the exam and then I suffer from hayfever because the pollen levels were high that day, I'd get 17% added onto my exam?

I'm curious though. Two things: firstly, are the percentages summed up if more than one is applicable, or do they find the new mark with one percentage, then add the second percentage onto the new figure instead? Secondly, does this not mean that there's a possibility of up to 118%? :P

Doctor's note, my sister actually had to use. She was diagnosed with mumps, which can cause infertility in men etc etc and so her doctor recommended she didn't sit the exam. They took her coursework grades for Maths and English, and your teachers have to fill in a "predicted grades" form a month or so before the exam; they took those two and made accurate estimates of what she would get overall had she sat the exams. Think she got an A* in Maths and a B in English/Media (which she didn't expect to get). After the exam, we discovered that the doctor had actually wrongly diagnosed her: it was swollen glands not mumps.

I'd have added a note had it been me, just saying, "Sorry if my spelling's not perfect; I was suffering from strong hayfever symptoms and found it difficult to concentrate." As long as you don't write in the margin where it says, "Leave margin blank", you won't lose marks for it; you might gain marks for it though :wink:

Reply 16

didi997

10

Does anyone know if it's at all possible to report a headache after an exam? I got one way into the exam, and seeing as it's 2hrs 15mins long.. is there any chance they would listen?

Reply 17

London Prophet

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DarkWhite

So, if my Mum and Grandmother are found to have cystic fibrosis and end up dying a week before the exam, I don't know how to feed my cat and therefore he dies, I get a headache thinking about the trauma and it reduces my concentration so I get hit by a car drove by a teacher on the way to the exam and then I suffer from hayfever because the pollen levels were high that day, I'd get 17% added onto my exam?

I wouldn't laugh to hard. I know someone who's dad died during his AS's .... 5% doesn't quite cut it.

Reply 18

Sandhu

2

clasigirlcs

Hey, you'd be surprised. AQA give like 2% more for people with hayfever, check it out...http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/uk_news/4527129.stm

I had a hayfever/cold attack last weekend, and my teachers were telling me to go the doctor. The doctor can give you like an injection or tablets or something... I mean, I've never gone to the doctors for hayfever, just taken Clarityn and suffered! But because it's exams, you want to be on top form and so your doctor won't think you a hypochondriac and should be able to help you.

Wow, I wish I knew that before. Do you just tell one of the invigilators you have it or write it on your paper or something?

Hayfever/Cold during exams?

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