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Appealing final degree result

To keep it short, for one of the exams I sat in my second year, I was 20 minutes late due to being involved in a car crash.

As a result, I did not finish my exam in time, and was not given extra time (although stupidly I did not ask for it ). I ended up with 55% for the exam, I know I could have obtained much higher if I finished the exam.

I never ended up appealing or doing anything about it. Thought I had no case.

However, I ended up with 69% overall for my degree. It has been stressing me out a lot, knowing I only needed 1 percent for a first.

Does anyone have any recommendations for how I can go about the situation?

Achieved my final result in July 2021.

Thanks
Short answer - its too late to lodge any kind of appeal.

I don't think you should have sat that exam in year 2. You should have taken the police statement/insurance company statement that you had been involved in an accident that day and you would have been allowed to take the exam again as a first sitting at a later date. Instead, in your traumatised state you went and sat the exam and got a 55. You failed to tell the invigilator about the car crash so there is no record on any university file that this incident occurred.

It's too late now to make an appeal. You could have appealed the mark in year 2 but since you graduated in 2021 then all avenues to lodge an appeal under mitigating circumstances have passed. Sorry.
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Original post by Anonymous
To keep it short, for one of the exams I sat in my second year, I was 20 minutes late due to being involved in a car crash.

As a result, I did not finish my exam in time, and was not given extra time (although stupidly I did not ask for it ). I ended up with 55% for the exam, I know I could have obtained much higher if I finished the exam.

I never ended up appealing or doing anything about it. Thought I had no case.

However, I ended up with 69% overall for my degree. It has been stressing me out a lot, knowing I only needed 1 percent for a first.

Does anyone have any recommendations for how I can go about the situation?

Achieved my final result in July 2021.

Th


It’s done, realistically all you could have got was a resit attempt which would be treated as a first attempt, and that would be if they felt the circumstances warranted this and probably needed to be submitted before the results were released and definitely before the end of year progressional exam board.
Original post by Anonymous
To keep it short, for one of the exams I sat in my second year, I was 20 minutes late due to being involved in a car crash.

As a result, I did not finish my exam in time, and was not given extra time (although stupidly I did not ask for it ). I ended up with 55% for the exam, I know I could have obtained much higher if I finished the exam.

I never ended up appealing or doing anything about it. Thought I had no case.

However, I ended up with 69% overall for my degree. It has been stressing me out a lot, knowing I only needed 1 percent for a first.

Does anyone have any recommendations for how I can go about the situation?

Achieved my final result in July 2021.

Thanks

You have to move on I'm afraid. Absolutely no chance of changing your grades once the degree is awarded (except very rare cases of having the degree removed if cheating comes to light).
Exams assume a degree of equality of opportunity. If you had been physically unwell you might have told the invigilator of the obvious difficulty or difference
When involved in a car accident depending on the nature of that incident examiners are likely to assess some degree of difficulty or inequality for your exam and add that
Simply by describing the circumstances of the accident and how it impacted on your llate attendance for the exam may give some weight to a re~assessment of your grades In addition you may have you seen your GP since and if you mentioned the matter of your exam and this car crash this might provide provide useful co~oberation of your difficulties on the day of the exam
Original post by Anonymous
Exams assume a degree of equality of opportunity. If you had been physically unwell you might have told the invigilator of the obvious difficulty or difference
When involved in a car accident depending on the nature of that incident examiners are likely to assess some degree of difficulty or inequality for your exam and add that
Simply by describing the circumstances of the accident and how it impacted on your llate attendance for the exam may give some weight to a re~assessment of your grades In addition you may have you seen your GP since and if you mentioned the matter of your exam and this car crash this might provide provide useful co~oberation of your difficulties on the day of the exam

Good points, but two years too late...