extenuating circumstances

I had a panic attack during one of my A level exams and as a result, this affected my performance significantly.
Is it a good idea to submit an EC form to my university?
Is there a deadline to submitting an EC because I read that it must be submitted within a week after my last exam but my last exam was 2 weeks ago.

Reply 1

DataVenia

Volunteer Team, Clearing and Applications Advisor

Original post by pim1310

Did you contact your school (ideally the exams officer) about "special consideration"? This is process whey they exam board can add a little to your overall mark to compensate you for a situation which arose on the day of the exam (or shortly beforehand) which adversely impacted your performance.

For "extreme distress on the day of an examination (not simply exam related stress)" - which sounds like a possible match for what you experienced - the likely allowance is 2% of the raw marks available for that particular paper. You can find out more about the special consideration process here. It is not too late to talk to your school about this.

You can also advise your firm and/or insurance university, via their mitigating circumstances process, of issues which would have impacted your examinations. They can use this information in situations where you just miss their offer grades, and they're trying to decided whether or not to accept you as a "near miss" candidate. You are not too late to let universities know (I know some don't even enable their on-line mitigating circumstances form until July) - but check with your firm/insurance uni as to what deadlines they might have.

Reply 2

pim1310

Original post by DataVenia

Did you contact your school (ideally the exams officer) about "special consideration"? This is process whey they exam board can add a little to your overall mark to compensate you for a situation which arose on the day of the exam (or shortly beforehand) which adversely impacted your performance.
For "extreme distress on the day of an examination (not simply exam related stress)" - which sounds like a possible match for what you experienced - the likely allowance is 2% of the raw marks available for that particular paper. You can find out more about the special consideration process here. It is not too late to talk to your school about this.
You can also advise your firm and/or insurance university, via their mitigating circumstances process, of issues which would have impacted your examinations. They can use this information in situations where you just miss their offer grades, and they're trying to decided whether or not to accept you as a "near miss" candidate. You are not too late to let universities know (I know some don't even enable their on-line mitigating circumstances form until July) - but check with your firm/insurance uni as to what deadlines they might have.

I did talk to my school about it but they said that since I did not inform any member of staff on the day of the exam they refuse to do ask for special consideration for me. But thank you!! I will check with my uni for the deadline

Reply 3

DataVenia

Volunteer Team, Clearing and Applications Advisor

Original post by pim1310

I can find no time limit for special consideration in the guidance (see link I sent above). However, the school need to be be sure that the incident actually happened, as they need to attest to that fact in the submission they make to the exam board. It sounds like your school have adopted a policy of requiring that the necessary evidence be gathered on the day in question and not afterwards.

Reply 4

McGinger

A panic attack IS 'exam related stress'.

Talk to your school - the Unis will not be very interested unless you have a doctor's letter indicating that this happens regularly. And btw, how will you cope at Uni if it does. You may prefer not to draw attention to this.

Reply 5

DataVenia

Volunteer Team, Clearing and Applications Advisor

Original post by McGinger

A panic attack IS 'exam related stress'.

Whilst I agree that a panic attack on the day of an examination is very likely to be exam related stress, I'm not sure that it is necessarily so.

For example, a student could have seen another student in the exam hall who used to bully them and had been expelled for it, but who had been allowed to return to sit their exams. A much less common scenario than common-or-garden "exam related stress", I'll grant you, but not inconceivable.