Special Consideration for exams (1 Viewer)

[lauralee]

Hey guys,

Does anyone know what UNSW's policies for special consideration are? Im feeling really sick (constant going to toilet headache etc) and I don't feel as if I can make the exam.
In the best scenario, Ill be able to do a supplementary exam, however the special consideration site indicates that these exams aren't always given out and you need to be basically sedated or in hospital to succeed for special consideration.

Also, this for a law exam... and i was reading from the ASB site, so is there any difference?

 

[maratyeu]

You should really be checking the courses faculty website since each has their own bureaucracy.

But pretty much a medical certificate is not automatic right to do the supplementary.

 

[lauralee]

You should really be checking the courses faculty website since each has their own bureaucracy.

But pretty much a medical certificate is not automatic right to do the supplementary.

Thanks, but how severe does it need to be?

 

[maratyeu]

Thanks, but how severe does it need to be?

That's for the Faculty to decide

 

[Wealth]

Sorry, they just fail people like you. LOL, you think you can just chicken out and call a sicky so you can get 3 extra weeks to study? That’s not how university works. This isn’t your little protective private school. I have went into tons of final exams when Ihadn’t done enough study for them. I felt a bit sick. I accepted it and pushed on through the exams and still managed to do pretty well.

Get used to it private school cry baby.

 

[unsw-maths-guru]

If you're too sick to sit the exam then
A. Get a medical cert and apply at https://my.unsw.edu.au/student/atoz/SpecialConsideration.html
B. Talk to your lecturer.

In little classes where they know you it is less of a problem than if there are 1000 students in the class and you are just some number. In maths if you are completely failing they won't bother giving you a supp even if you are half dead (I think < 40% is the cutoff), but that I don't think that applies in other schools. If you have been doing OK and you have a med cert that says you were really sick that should be enough.