Final year academic appeal
Final Year Academic Appeal
Hi,
I am a final year student who received 3rd class as their final mark. 2nd year was worth 25% and final year was worth 75%. I want to appeal the process so that I can complete a full resit in either all or some modules. I have sent an email to my SU and personal tutor and while I wait for their responses I wanted to know if anyone else had gone through anything similar and can provide advice.
These are the details below.
module 1 and 2 - coursework submission due for the 4th of January.
- upon entering university I was constantly stressed about the family situation. My father had been abusive throughout my childhood and it had gotten worse because my mother and I had started to fight back from my second year of university. To the point I had called the police 2 to 3 times on my father and he had spent a night in lockup. When I would be at university, I would be on edge consistently, analysing every phone call I had with my mother. What was her tone, what words was she choosing. Would I have to call the police. Leaving my mother and brother in an abusive environment filled me with guilt and panic. It was also during the timeframe of the divorce proceedings. I was worried constantly about my family's financial situation. I was looking into Aid for Domestic Abuse victims and understanding the divorce process so that my mother would not make a mistake and get the shorter end of the straw. My dad left the country in November, and all I could think about is the psychological effects of losing a parental figure, how we could chase him down for payments and the miserable outcome of my life. This severely affected my attendance and motivation in life. However, I felt that if I self studied then I could complete the assignments. Unfortunately this was not the case and my mental state was reflected in the grades.
module 3 - Monzo fraud. A scammer impersonated an University professor and I lost £650 on the 5th of January. The details of that case are quite long but I was not the only victim. I Could not think straight. I was already troubled with the future of the family and now I had lost money. I used money from my maintenance loan to cover the rent however this put me into overdraft, something which I still have not recovered from. It would plague me, especially during and leading up to the exam on the 12th, how I would recover the money. How could I have been so careless. I blamed myself for everything our family was going through. I know that I was also not the only person who went through this as months later I saw a newsletter informing students of the scam. At the time I didn't tell anybody but my mother as I felt it was a very shameful experience.
Modules 4, 5 and 6 - submitted in May.
Although my father was no longer an immediate danger for me or my family now. The financial situation still loomed over my head. I was having frequent panic attacks and breakdowns. Later when I finally got allocated the next lot of therapy sessions, I found out that I had been suffering from symptoms of PTSD. Now that I was not in constant fight or flight, my brain was finally processing all the years of trauma and damage and it quite clearly reflected onto my grades. I did not reach out for ECs because my mental health did not present in the way that I thought would be taken seriously. I have peers that tried to kill themselves. In contrast I had not tried anything like that yet. A symptom of my illness is trivialising my experiences and masking in front of others. I had even gone to University therapy last year but it was not at all effective. I imagined welfare as a whole in the university would be the same. At that time I had applied for an EC and not heard back too. I know someone with very similar experiences who had received a RAP and now she is deferring her exams.
If not for modules 4, 5 and 6, I hope that I may be allowed the opportunity to resit my modules in the first semester at the very least. I hope that the University understands that these were not at all healthy circumstances and environments to prepare and sit for exams and that they were very much out of my control.
It's a lot to read. But I hope someone can provide me advice. I have a doctor's note, a note saying I have attended therapy and evidence of the Monzo scam. I also have evidence of medication and the police report number.
Hi,
I am a final year student who received 3rd class as their final mark. 2nd year was worth 25% and final year was worth 75%. I want to appeal the process so that I can complete a full resit in either all or some modules. I have sent an email to my SU and personal tutor and while I wait for their responses I wanted to know if anyone else had gone through anything similar and can provide advice.
These are the details below.
module 1 and 2 - coursework submission due for the 4th of January.
- upon entering university I was constantly stressed about the family situation. My father had been abusive throughout my childhood and it had gotten worse because my mother and I had started to fight back from my second year of university. To the point I had called the police 2 to 3 times on my father and he had spent a night in lockup. When I would be at university, I would be on edge consistently, analysing every phone call I had with my mother. What was her tone, what words was she choosing. Would I have to call the police. Leaving my mother and brother in an abusive environment filled me with guilt and panic. It was also during the timeframe of the divorce proceedings. I was worried constantly about my family's financial situation. I was looking into Aid for Domestic Abuse victims and understanding the divorce process so that my mother would not make a mistake and get the shorter end of the straw. My dad left the country in November, and all I could think about is the psychological effects of losing a parental figure, how we could chase him down for payments and the miserable outcome of my life. This severely affected my attendance and motivation in life. However, I felt that if I self studied then I could complete the assignments. Unfortunately this was not the case and my mental state was reflected in the grades.
module 3 - Monzo fraud. A scammer impersonated an University professor and I lost £650 on the 5th of January. The details of that case are quite long but I was not the only victim. I Could not think straight. I was already troubled with the future of the family and now I had lost money. I used money from my maintenance loan to cover the rent however this put me into overdraft, something which I still have not recovered from. It would plague me, especially during and leading up to the exam on the 12th, how I would recover the money. How could I have been so careless. I blamed myself for everything our family was going through. I know that I was also not the only person who went through this as months later I saw a newsletter informing students of the scam. At the time I didn't tell anybody but my mother as I felt it was a very shameful experience.
Modules 4, 5 and 6 - submitted in May.
Although my father was no longer an immediate danger for me or my family now. The financial situation still loomed over my head. I was having frequent panic attacks and breakdowns. Later when I finally got allocated the next lot of therapy sessions, I found out that I had been suffering from symptoms of PTSD. Now that I was not in constant fight or flight, my brain was finally processing all the years of trauma and damage and it quite clearly reflected onto my grades. I did not reach out for ECs because my mental health did not present in the way that I thought would be taken seriously. I have peers that tried to kill themselves. In contrast I had not tried anything like that yet. A symptom of my illness is trivialising my experiences and masking in front of others. I had even gone to University therapy last year but it was not at all effective. I imagined welfare as a whole in the university would be the same. At that time I had applied for an EC and not heard back too. I know someone with very similar experiences who had received a RAP and now she is deferring her exams.
If not for modules 4, 5 and 6, I hope that I may be allowed the opportunity to resit my modules in the first semester at the very least. I hope that the University understands that these were not at all healthy circumstances and environments to prepare and sit for exams and that they were very much out of my control.
It's a lot to read. But I hope someone can provide me advice. I have a doctor's note, a note saying I have attended therapy and evidence of the Monzo scam. I also have evidence of medication and the police report number.
Original post by Anonymous
Final Year Academic Appeal
Hi,
I am a final year student who received 3rd class as their final mark. 2nd year was worth 25% and final year was worth 75%. I want to appeal the process so that I can complete a full resit in either all or some modules. I have sent an email to my SU and personal tutor and while I wait for their responses I wanted to know if anyone else had gone through anything similar and can provide advice.
These are the details below.
module 1 and 2 - coursework submission due for the 4th of January.
- upon entering university I was constantly stressed about the family situation. My father had been abusive throughout my childhood and it had gotten worse because my mother and I had started to fight back from my second year of university. To the point I had called the police 2 to 3 times on my father and he had spent a night in lockup. When I would be at university, I would be on edge consistently, analysing every phone call I had with my mother. What was her tone, what words was she choosing. Would I have to call the police. Leaving my mother and brother in an abusive environment filled me with guilt and panic. It was also during the timeframe of the divorce proceedings. I was worried constantly about my family's financial situation. I was looking into Aid for Domestic Abuse victims and understanding the divorce process so that my mother would not make a mistake and get the shorter end of the straw. My dad left the country in November, and all I could think about is the psychological effects of losing a parental figure, how we could chase him down for payments and the miserable outcome of my life. This severely affected my attendance and motivation in life. However, I felt that if I self studied then I could complete the assignments. Unfortunately this was not the case and my mental state was reflected in the grades.
module 3 - Monzo fraud. A scammer impersonated an University professor and I lost £650 on the 5th of January. The details of that case are quite long but I was not the only victim. I Could not think straight. I was already troubled with the future of the family and now I had lost money. I used money from my maintenance loan to cover the rent however this put me into overdraft, something which I still have not recovered from. It would plague me, especially during and leading up to the exam on the 12th, how I would recover the money. How could I have been so careless. I blamed myself for everything our family was going through. I know that I was also not the only person who went through this as months later I saw a newsletter informing students of the scam. At the time I didn't tell anybody but my mother as I felt it was a very shameful experience.
Modules 4, 5 and 6 - submitted in May.
Although my father was no longer an immediate danger for me or my family now. The financial situation still loomed over my head. I was having frequent panic attacks and breakdowns. Later when I finally got allocated the next lot of therapy sessions, I found out that I had been suffering from symptoms of PTSD. Now that I was not in constant fight or flight, my brain was finally processing all the years of trauma and damage and it quite clearly reflected onto my grades. I did not reach out for ECs because my mental health did not present in the way that I thought would be taken seriously. I have peers that tried to kill themselves. In contrast I had not tried anything like that yet. A symptom of my illness is trivialising my experiences and masking in front of others. I had even gone to University therapy last year but it was not at all effective. I imagined welfare as a whole in the university would be the same. At that time I had applied for an EC and not heard back too. I know someone with very similar experiences who had received a RAP and now she is deferring her exams.
If not for modules 4, 5 and 6, I hope that I may be allowed the opportunity to resit my modules in the first semester at the very least. I hope that the University understands that these were not at all healthy circumstances and environments to prepare and sit for exams and that they were very much out of my control.
It's a lot to read. But I hope someone can provide me advice. I have a doctor's note, a note saying I have attended therapy and evidence of the Monzo scam. I also have evidence of medication and the police report number.
Hi,
I am a final year student who received 3rd class as their final mark. 2nd year was worth 25% and final year was worth 75%. I want to appeal the process so that I can complete a full resit in either all or some modules. I have sent an email to my SU and personal tutor and while I wait for their responses I wanted to know if anyone else had gone through anything similar and can provide advice.
These are the details below.
module 1 and 2 - coursework submission due for the 4th of January.
- upon entering university I was constantly stressed about the family situation. My father had been abusive throughout my childhood and it had gotten worse because my mother and I had started to fight back from my second year of university. To the point I had called the police 2 to 3 times on my father and he had spent a night in lockup. When I would be at university, I would be on edge consistently, analysing every phone call I had with my mother. What was her tone, what words was she choosing. Would I have to call the police. Leaving my mother and brother in an abusive environment filled me with guilt and panic. It was also during the timeframe of the divorce proceedings. I was worried constantly about my family's financial situation. I was looking into Aid for Domestic Abuse victims and understanding the divorce process so that my mother would not make a mistake and get the shorter end of the straw. My dad left the country in November, and all I could think about is the psychological effects of losing a parental figure, how we could chase him down for payments and the miserable outcome of my life. This severely affected my attendance and motivation in life. However, I felt that if I self studied then I could complete the assignments. Unfortunately this was not the case and my mental state was reflected in the grades.
module 3 - Monzo fraud. A scammer impersonated an University professor and I lost £650 on the 5th of January. The details of that case are quite long but I was not the only victim. I Could not think straight. I was already troubled with the future of the family and now I had lost money. I used money from my maintenance loan to cover the rent however this put me into overdraft, something which I still have not recovered from. It would plague me, especially during and leading up to the exam on the 12th, how I would recover the money. How could I have been so careless. I blamed myself for everything our family was going through. I know that I was also not the only person who went through this as months later I saw a newsletter informing students of the scam. At the time I didn't tell anybody but my mother as I felt it was a very shameful experience.
Modules 4, 5 and 6 - submitted in May.
Although my father was no longer an immediate danger for me or my family now. The financial situation still loomed over my head. I was having frequent panic attacks and breakdowns. Later when I finally got allocated the next lot of therapy sessions, I found out that I had been suffering from symptoms of PTSD. Now that I was not in constant fight or flight, my brain was finally processing all the years of trauma and damage and it quite clearly reflected onto my grades. I did not reach out for ECs because my mental health did not present in the way that I thought would be taken seriously. I have peers that tried to kill themselves. In contrast I had not tried anything like that yet. A symptom of my illness is trivialising my experiences and masking in front of others. I had even gone to University therapy last year but it was not at all effective. I imagined welfare as a whole in the university would be the same. At that time I had applied for an EC and not heard back too. I know someone with very similar experiences who had received a RAP and now she is deferring her exams.
If not for modules 4, 5 and 6, I hope that I may be allowed the opportunity to resit my modules in the first semester at the very least. I hope that the University understands that these were not at all healthy circumstances and environments to prepare and sit for exams and that they were very much out of my control.
It's a lot to read. But I hope someone can provide me advice. I have a doctor's note, a note saying I have attended therapy and evidence of the Monzo scam. I also have evidence of medication and the police report number.
That's a lot to digest. Which uni are you at? They will have published policies and procedures for dealing with claims for exceptional circumstances, academic appeals, etc. and it will help us give relevant advice if we know how your particular uni handles these things.
The fact that you did not appeal you year 2 result (did you?) suggests that you were happy with your performance then. Is that the case? Or if that was impacted by the circumstances you outline above, then maybe your year 1 grades were a better reflection of your ability? It would be useful to establish a "baseline" for your academic performance, to help illustrate the extent to which your year 3 performance was impacted.
The fact that you say, "upon entering university I was constantly stressed about the family situation." So presumably years 1 and 2 were equally impacted? If that's the case, then presumably the only experience the uni has if you is of an underperforming student? Is that the case?
One thing which might look odd to any appeals panel is the way that the different situations you've described have impacted specific modules, but not others. For example, the Monzo scam only impacted Module 3. The seems too neat and clean to be plausible. Or is that just a manifestation of the fact that you have to file different EC claims for each module, and you don't want to provide the same reasons for each and every one as that devalues the "exceptional" argument?
You say above that, "A symptom of my illness is trivialising my experiences and masking in front of others." You have now filed exceptional circumstances claims, contacted your Students' Union, are preparing an academic appeal, and have reached out here on TSR. Does that suggest that the "trivialising my experiences" aspect is a thing of the past? If so, how did you manage to turn this around?
Finally, how will you persuade the appeals panel that you are now in a better place with regards to your academic performance?
Reply 2
Hey,
Thanks for the reply.
It's true I have been a consistently underperforming student. My second year grades were average at best but because they were 25% of my final grade I believed I could turn it around. Things have always been bad at home but they escalated when I went to uni more and more every semester. Even til now everyone has told me the appeal process is very difficult so I didn't think of doing it til now where I have no other choice. Last year I did fill out an EC form attached with a doctor's note detailing that the impact was high to my studies and sent it to Wellbeing however got no response. I sent follow up emails with no response too. I assumed that the university would not help and looked into therapy from charity organisations. Only recently I told my friend about my circumstances and she pushed me to appeal and rise from the circumstances.
Regarding the individual explanations for each module, I looked through tsr and noticed that everyone said that there needed something to have happened specifically at/during the exam. Of course the abuse and family situation was affecting me mentally then too, the scam just happened to also add on to it especially before that exam. It is not at all convenient or implausible as I very much have receipts and evidence of it happening. I have a full report with Action fraud.
I am trying to heal. As indicated by taking the step to begin medicating. It is also easier to heal because my parents divorce is getting finalised in the next month and my father has left the country. I will be in a better place when undertaking resits as the stress of living with a ticking time bomb will be gone. I will no longer have to worry about safety and because the financial order will be finalised I will not have to worry about money.
Thank you for taking the time to reply, it has been helpful to understand what kind of questions the panel may also have and how to prepare better. Please let me know if there is anything else I have not clearly stated.
Thanks for the reply.
It's true I have been a consistently underperforming student. My second year grades were average at best but because they were 25% of my final grade I believed I could turn it around. Things have always been bad at home but they escalated when I went to uni more and more every semester. Even til now everyone has told me the appeal process is very difficult so I didn't think of doing it til now where I have no other choice. Last year I did fill out an EC form attached with a doctor's note detailing that the impact was high to my studies and sent it to Wellbeing however got no response. I sent follow up emails with no response too. I assumed that the university would not help and looked into therapy from charity organisations. Only recently I told my friend about my circumstances and she pushed me to appeal and rise from the circumstances.
Regarding the individual explanations for each module, I looked through tsr and noticed that everyone said that there needed something to have happened specifically at/during the exam. Of course the abuse and family situation was affecting me mentally then too, the scam just happened to also add on to it especially before that exam. It is not at all convenient or implausible as I very much have receipts and evidence of it happening. I have a full report with Action fraud.
I am trying to heal. As indicated by taking the step to begin medicating. It is also easier to heal because my parents divorce is getting finalised in the next month and my father has left the country. I will be in a better place when undertaking resits as the stress of living with a ticking time bomb will be gone. I will no longer have to worry about safety and because the financial order will be finalised I will not have to worry about money.
Thank you for taking the time to reply, it has been helpful to understand what kind of questions the panel may also have and how to prepare better. Please let me know if there is anything else I have not clearly stated.
Original post by Anonymous
Hey,
Thanks for the reply.
It's true I have been a consistently underperforming student. My second year grades were average at best but because they were 25% of my final grade I believed I could turn it around. Things have always been bad at home but they escalated when I went to uni more and more every semester. Even til now everyone has told me the appeal process is very difficult so I didn't think of doing it til now where I have no other choice. Last year I did fill out an EC form attached with a doctor's note detailing that the impact was high to my studies and sent it to Wellbeing however got no response. I sent follow up emails with no response too. I assumed that the university would not help and looked into therapy from charity organisations. Only recently I told my friend about my circumstances and she pushed me to appeal and rise from the circumstances.
Regarding the individual explanations for each module, I looked through tsr and noticed that everyone said that there needed something to have happened specifically at/during the exam. Of course the abuse and family situation was affecting me mentally then too, the scam just happened to also add on to it especially before that exam. It is not at all convenient or implausible as I very much have receipts and evidence of it happening. I have a full report with Action fraud.
I am trying to heal. As indicated by taking the step to begin medicating. It is also easier to heal because my parents divorce is getting finalised in the next month and my father has left the country. I will be in a better place when undertaking resits as the stress of living with a ticking time bomb will be gone. I will no longer have to worry about safety and because the financial order will be finalised I will not have to worry about money.
Thank you for taking the time to reply, it has been helpful to understand what kind of questions the panel may also have and how to prepare better. Please let me know if there is anything else I have not clearly stated.
Thanks for the reply.
It's true I have been a consistently underperforming student. My second year grades were average at best but because they were 25% of my final grade I believed I could turn it around. Things have always been bad at home but they escalated when I went to uni more and more every semester. Even til now everyone has told me the appeal process is very difficult so I didn't think of doing it til now where I have no other choice. Last year I did fill out an EC form attached with a doctor's note detailing that the impact was high to my studies and sent it to Wellbeing however got no response. I sent follow up emails with no response too. I assumed that the university would not help and looked into therapy from charity organisations. Only recently I told my friend about my circumstances and she pushed me to appeal and rise from the circumstances.
Regarding the individual explanations for each module, I looked through tsr and noticed that everyone said that there needed something to have happened specifically at/during the exam. Of course the abuse and family situation was affecting me mentally then too, the scam just happened to also add on to it especially before that exam. It is not at all convenient or implausible as I very much have receipts and evidence of it happening. I have a full report with Action fraud.
I am trying to heal. As indicated by taking the step to begin medicating. It is also easier to heal because my parents divorce is getting finalised in the next month and my father has left the country. I will be in a better place when undertaking resits as the stress of living with a ticking time bomb will be gone. I will no longer have to worry about safety and because the financial order will be finalised I will not have to worry about money.
Thank you for taking the time to reply, it has been helpful to understand what kind of questions the panel may also have and how to prepare better. Please let me know if there is anything else I have not clearly stated.
Thank you for the clarifications. I think a successful appeal will be challenging, primarily because - as you say - things like extenuating circumstances are primarily for situations which occur specifically around the time of your exams (or other assessments), whilst you have described yourself as "a consistently underperforming student". If you have been, for example, consistently achieving somewhere between 40% and 50% throughout your time at uni, and then achieved similar marks in your final exams, its difficult to make the case that some incident specifically around the time of the exams impacted your performance.
The fact that your EC form was ignored also suggests that whatever uni this is either aren't well organised, or aren't particularly interested in the EC / appeals process. That doesn't bode well.
Good luck, and do tell us how you get on.
Reply 4
Original post by Anonymous
Final Year Academic Appeal
Hi,
I am a final year student who received 3rd class as their final mark. 2nd year was worth 25% and final year was worth 75%. I want to appeal the process so that I can complete a full resit in either all or some modules. I have sent an email to my SU and personal tutor and while I wait for their responses I wanted to know if anyone else had gone through anything similar and can provide advice.
These are the details below.
module 1 and 2 - coursework submission due for the 4th of January.
- upon entering university I was constantly stressed about the family situation. My father had been abusive throughout my childhood and it had gotten worse because my mother and I had started to fight back from my second year of university. To the point I had called the police 2 to 3 times on my father and he had spent a night in lockup. When I would be at university, I would be on edge consistently, analysing every phone call I had with my mother. What was her tone, what words was she choosing. Would I have to call the police. Leaving my mother and brother in an abusive environment filled me with guilt and panic. It was also during the timeframe of the divorce proceedings. I was worried constantly about my family's financial situation. I was looking into Aid for Domestic Abuse victims and understanding the divorce process so that my mother would not make a mistake and get the shorter end of the straw. My dad left the country in November, and all I could think about is the psychological effects of losing a parental figure, how we could chase him down for payments and the miserable outcome of my life. This severely affected my attendance and motivation in life. However, I felt that if I self studied then I could complete the assignments. Unfortunately this was not the case and my mental state was reflected in the grades.
module 3 - Monzo fraud. A scammer impersonated an University professor and I lost £650 on the 5th of January. The details of that case are quite long but I was not the only victim. I Could not think straight. I was already troubled with the future of the family and now I had lost money. I used money from my maintenance loan to cover the rent however this put me into overdraft, something which I still have not recovered from. It would plague me, especially during and leading up to the exam on the 12th, how I would recover the money. How could I have been so careless. I blamed myself for everything our family was going through. I know that I was also not the only person who went through this as months later I saw a newsletter informing students of the scam. At the time I didn't tell anybody but my mother as I felt it was a very shameful experience.
Modules 4, 5 and 6 - submitted in May.
Although my father was no longer an immediate danger for me or my family now. The financial situation still loomed over my head. I was having frequent panic attacks and breakdowns. Later when I finally got allocated the next lot of therapy sessions, I found out that I had been suffering from symptoms of PTSD. Now that I was not in constant fight or flight, my brain was finally processing all the years of trauma and damage and it quite clearly reflected onto my grades. I did not reach out for ECs because my mental health did not present in the way that I thought would be taken seriously. I have peers that tried to kill themselves. In contrast I had not tried anything like that yet. A symptom of my illness is trivialising my experiences and masking in front of others. I had even gone to University therapy last year but it was not at all effective. I imagined welfare as a whole in the university would be the same. At that time I had applied for an EC and not heard back too. I know someone with very similar experiences who had received a RAP and now she is deferring her exams.
If not for modules 4, 5 and 6, I hope that I may be allowed the opportunity to resit my modules in the first semester at the very least. I hope that the University understands that these were not at all healthy circumstances and environments to prepare and sit for exams and that they were very much out of my control.
It's a lot to read. But I hope someone can provide me advice. I have a doctor's note, a note saying I have attended therapy and evidence of the Monzo scam. I also have evidence of medication and the police report number.
Hi,
I am a final year student who received 3rd class as their final mark. 2nd year was worth 25% and final year was worth 75%. I want to appeal the process so that I can complete a full resit in either all or some modules. I have sent an email to my SU and personal tutor and while I wait for their responses I wanted to know if anyone else had gone through anything similar and can provide advice.
These are the details below.
module 1 and 2 - coursework submission due for the 4th of January.
- upon entering university I was constantly stressed about the family situation. My father had been abusive throughout my childhood and it had gotten worse because my mother and I had started to fight back from my second year of university. To the point I had called the police 2 to 3 times on my father and he had spent a night in lockup. When I would be at university, I would be on edge consistently, analysing every phone call I had with my mother. What was her tone, what words was she choosing. Would I have to call the police. Leaving my mother and brother in an abusive environment filled me with guilt and panic. It was also during the timeframe of the divorce proceedings. I was worried constantly about my family's financial situation. I was looking into Aid for Domestic Abuse victims and understanding the divorce process so that my mother would not make a mistake and get the shorter end of the straw. My dad left the country in November, and all I could think about is the psychological effects of losing a parental figure, how we could chase him down for payments and the miserable outcome of my life. This severely affected my attendance and motivation in life. However, I felt that if I self studied then I could complete the assignments. Unfortunately this was not the case and my mental state was reflected in the grades.
module 3 - Monzo fraud. A scammer impersonated an University professor and I lost £650 on the 5th of January. The details of that case are quite long but I was not the only victim. I Could not think straight. I was already troubled with the future of the family and now I had lost money. I used money from my maintenance loan to cover the rent however this put me into overdraft, something which I still have not recovered from. It would plague me, especially during and leading up to the exam on the 12th, how I would recover the money. How could I have been so careless. I blamed myself for everything our family was going through. I know that I was also not the only person who went through this as months later I saw a newsletter informing students of the scam. At the time I didn't tell anybody but my mother as I felt it was a very shameful experience.
Modules 4, 5 and 6 - submitted in May.
Although my father was no longer an immediate danger for me or my family now. The financial situation still loomed over my head. I was having frequent panic attacks and breakdowns. Later when I finally got allocated the next lot of therapy sessions, I found out that I had been suffering from symptoms of PTSD. Now that I was not in constant fight or flight, my brain was finally processing all the years of trauma and damage and it quite clearly reflected onto my grades. I did not reach out for ECs because my mental health did not present in the way that I thought would be taken seriously. I have peers that tried to kill themselves. In contrast I had not tried anything like that yet. A symptom of my illness is trivialising my experiences and masking in front of others. I had even gone to University therapy last year but it was not at all effective. I imagined welfare as a whole in the university would be the same. At that time I had applied for an EC and not heard back too. I know someone with very similar experiences who had received a RAP and now she is deferring her exams.
If not for modules 4, 5 and 6, I hope that I may be allowed the opportunity to resit my modules in the first semester at the very least. I hope that the University understands that these were not at all healthy circumstances and environments to prepare and sit for exams and that they were very much out of my control.
It's a lot to read. But I hope someone can provide me advice. I have a doctor's note, a note saying I have attended therapy and evidence of the Monzo scam. I also have evidence of medication and the police report number.
I am very sorry to hear of your problems with your Father. It is no wonder you were/are struggling with studies. I know of someone in exact same position and luckily they are bit older and managed to finally leave the family house. They do though still have anxiety and worse.
Let me suggest one thing might help. Look up "Hypnotherapy Directory" on Google. Find a few therapists who will give you Free Consultation ,which most do. Then go see them until you find one you really like and try full session.
Reply 5
any update on your appeal?
Reply 6
Original post by appealhelp
any update on your appeal?
Hey, no updates as of yet. I know some others who have also appealed. The appeal team is happy to go forward with the claim but apparently they are waiting for the board of directors to reply. It has been some months now and none of us have been given a response. It seems that most likely if the appeal is accepted it will result in resits either in the winter or summer examination period which means graduating next year.
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Hey, no updates as of yet. I know some others who have also appealed. The appeal team is happy to go forward with the claim but apparently they are waiting for the board of directors to reply. It has been some months now and none of us have been given a response. It seems that most likely if the appeal is accepted it will result in resits either in the winter or summer examination period which means graduating next year.
same here, the waiting is killing me. Are you in a London uni?
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