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What if you're incredibly sick on the exam day?

HopingDragron

What's the procedure and when do you take your test?

Reply 1

HopingDragron

OP

Bump. This is an important question.

Reply 2

Tinsley

15

Not too sure. For yr 9 sats my friend had an examiner sit in their house at the kitchen table observing them doing the tests. Things might have changed and other exams are probably more important.

You can get extra % though if you have a doctors note saying you were ill and your grade has probably suffered to some extent.

Reply 3

sunspoon

14

If you have swine flu then it may help your cause a little bit.

Reply 4

c444a111

Talk to your examinations officer at your school/college, they usually offer about a 5% increase in marks so it would definitely be worth checking it out. But the best thing to do is to let the examinations officer know as soon as you can because it can take a bit of time to get the things in motion to get the extra marks. Hope this helps, and good luck :smile:

Reply 5

HopingDragron

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c444a111

Talk to your examinations officer at your school/college, they usually offer about a 5% increase in marks so it would definitely be worth checking it out. But the best thing to do is to let the examinations officer know as soon as you can because it can take a bit of time to get the things in motion to get the extra marks. Hope this helps, and good luck :smile:

What if we can't get out of bed for two days before the exam?

Reply 6

Kaykiie

15

HopingDragron

What if we can't get out of bed for two days before the exam?

Are you actually ill?

Or are you just going to rub up against a swine flu victim? :wink:

Reply 7

nicky_innit

9

Tinsley

Not too sure. For yr 9 sats my friend had an examiner sit in their house at the kitchen table observing them doing the tests. Things might have changed and other exams are probably more important.

You can get extra % though if you have a doctors note saying you were ill and your grade has probably suffered to some extent.

I totally missed my year 9 SATS as I was in hospital with pancreatitus xD

Reply 8

HopingDragron

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Kaykiie

Are you actually ill?

Or are you just going to rub up against a swine flu victim? :wink:

Nah. Swine flu hasn't spread this far east.

I'm just wondering what I would do if I were really sick.

Would I need to suck it up and take the test?

And if I can't leave the house, what then?

Reply 9

Sambo2

10

Acutally you only get 5% for things like a relative dying on the way to the exam..

Reply 10

username225218

8

For my RE GCSE I became really ill on the morning of the exam after I'd actually left for school. I just dealt with it and took the test. I had an invigilator stood near by for the whole exam with tissues and incase I felt sick and needed to leave. I'm sure I probably could have sent off a doctors note to get more marks but couldn't see much use. It did affect my grades admittedly when I got them back since I was fairly off my predicted grade.

If you couldn't actually leave the house, I'm not sure what they could do. I know for if Swine Flu breaks out, they are planning on taking mocks results and coursework into account and producing a grade from those.

Reply 11

HopingDragron

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beffnee

For my RE GCSE I became really ill on the morning of the exam after I'd actually left for school. I just dealt with it and took the test. I had an invigilator stood near by for the whole exam with tissues and incase I felt sick and needed to leave. I'm sure I probably could have sent off a doctors note to get more marks but couldn't see much use. It did affect my grades admittedly when I got them back since I was fairly off my predicted grade.

If you couldn't actually leave the house, I'm not sure what they could do. I know for if Swine Flu breaks out, they are planning on taking mocks results and coursework into account and producing a grade from those.

In the UK, I'm guessing? We didn't have coursework here, and I got around 95 percent in my mocks. Surely they couldn't take that into account?

Reply 12

Tinsley

15

c444a111

Talk to your examinations officer at your school/college, they usually offer about a 5% increase in marks so it would definitely be worth checking it out.

No, the maximum you can EVER get is 5%. For illness on the day you only get about 2/3 % max. 4/5% is, like somebody else has said, for a relative dying on or near to an exam day, or extreme stress caused by some traumatic situation etc etc.

Reply 13

username225218

8

HopingDragron

In the UK, I'm guessing? We didn't have coursework here, and I got around 95 percent in my mocks. Surely they couldn't take that into account?

Yes I'm in the UK (:
I'm not entirely sure how the system would work in that kind of situation, but that's what I've heard. Predicted grades might be used from teachers?

Reply 14

Revd. Mike

17

If you're sick during an exam, the exam officer can make a plea for special regard, and you may get a few extra marks, if you can later produce a doctor's note.

If you're so ill that you miss the exam entirely, then you MUSt have a letter from the doctor, you MUST let the invigilator know as soon as reasonably possible, and you may get a calculated mark based on previous mocks and a standard curve.

Reply 15

psychocustard

18

When it was my English Lit GCSE, I developed acute tonsilitis, and couldn't really move without being sick. I had to get a doctor's note, and my grade was supposed to be assessed on my mock exam grade.

Although my stupid bint of an English teacher lost my mock exam, and thus I got a U.

:yep:

Reply 16

inksplodge

17

During the summer exams last year someone in my class was really ill and she just had to retake all her exams in January. My advice is just do your best. :dontknow:

I was really ill during a GCSE exam and couldn't focus at all (was just trying not to throw up on my paper) but I still did great. :biggrin:

Reply 17

Paul PTS

15

Once,when I was on the first year I got a flue.And went to exam for Economy Theory.Luckless professor-examinator she still remembers me:her face was so frighten and disgust than I had to use my snotty handkerchief.But I got excellent and went to drink beer with comrades.The flue flew away as we usually say.

Reply 18

abcxyz6666

2

HopingDragron

Nah. Swine flu hasn't spread this far east.

I'm just wondering what I would do if I were really sick.

Would I need to suck it up and take the test?

And if I can't leave the house, what then?

This happened to me when I was in year 10, I was so sick that I couldn't go to school.

If you cant go to school then you will have to do it next Jan.

Reply 19

Tishy

8

go to les doctoros, and get a sick not, if the school recieves a proper doctors not theyll just give you your target grade for the exam :biggrin:

What if you're incredibly sick on the exam day?

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