I’m honestly torn between what to do. I’m a first year medical student, but I only did two exams this year as my programme is one that splits stage 1 into two years, thus splitting the exams over 2 years.
During my first exam, my computer was bugging out, and long story short it resulted in me losing a total of 20 mins. I already think I did bad enough as I didn’t revise as much as I should have, but the timing also threw me off. I still got the entire exam done, but not with much time to spare
My question is:
should I submit a mitigating circumstances form, and if it gets approved, resit this exam in august?
OR
should I wait to see if I have passed the exam (roughly find out in july)? If i find out i have FAILED, i can still re-sit, HOWEVER, my mark is capped at 60% (which idc i just need a pass) and it shows up on my record. However, the stage head said it doesn’t affect my degree whatsoever, and i’m fine with it being on the record BUT i’m currently receive a scholarship, and i’m afraid the person that funds me will think i’m incompetent for the money. I am meeting her for the first time this Thursday, so I was hoping of bringing it up so she knows if i fail it’s partially technical difficulties to blame, but again, i need to submit the mitigating circumstances form TODAY, as it’s been almost 7 days past the exam.
i’m really unsure. I’m not a productive organised student, so I thought perhaps if my mitigating circumstances request got approved, it would be time to prove myself and become a better student and build good habits over the summer. but with that, what if i fail on my words like i always do and end up procastinating?
i’m thinking if i do the mitigating circumstances form, it might not even be approved and i should take that as Gods sign to wait to see if i’ve actually failed. But if it is approved, i’d have to live up to my words.