Excuse needed - PLEASE HELP!

StormWarrior · 30-09-2006 3:06pm #1

For years I have attended my favourite rock festival, and i love it. I look forward to it all year and i totally live for it. I've just started university and now i find out my first year exams are at the same time as the festival. I can't miss the festival. I need to find an excuse to do my exams at a different time, or to miss them. I can't plead illness as i would need a doctor's note. Please someone help me think of an excuse!

(and anyone tempted to say "miss the festival and put your exams first" don't bother. That's not the advice I came here for!)

Faith · 30-09-2006 3:08pm

Just skip them and re-do them in August.

Good start to college.

Gordon · 30-09-2006 3:12pm

Moved from PI.

Dinxminx · 30-09-2006 3:12pm

Ummmmmmmmmmmmm I'm pretty sure an "illness" would be the only thing you could get away with. As far as I know anyway. I'd say fake the death of a relative or something but that's sort of harsh, and they'd probably look for proof anyway... Or you could MAKE yourself sick!! Somehow.

Creamy Goodness · 30-09-2006 3:13pm

StormWarrior wrote:

(and anyone tempted to say "miss the festival and put your exams first" don't bother. That's not the advice I came here for!)

you've just answered you're own question.

Karoma · 30-09-2006 3:14pm

Break an arm or two. How important is this concert, damnit?! Better yet, make it head damage. It'd be more convincing.

Lust4Life · 30-09-2006 3:15pm

"Over-intoxication" is considered an illness. Go for it!

Or get arrested and released just before the concert?

elexes · 30-09-2006 3:16pm

if i was u id just do the repeats. go to your teachers and explain to them your getting married or whatever then and you cant do them but will do them in augest

pritty stupid post tho . you cant do the exams a week late the uni wouldnt let you do them you will have to sit the repeats . cant believe ur missing final exams for a concert

Lorax · 30-09-2006 3:22pm

Could ya not email the promotions company and ask them to move your festival forward a few weeks. I'm sure they/the bands won't mind at all. Exams are important like.

theTinker · 30-09-2006 3:26pm

I wouldnt do a fake death excuse. My friend actually had someone die on them(not as a favour) and she was made bring in a death cert...it was her sister ffs. how ****ty..

A good fake illness would be your only bet. Repeats arent for no reason. They usually require a doc cert. Do yourselve a easy one and "hurt" your shoulder of the arm you write with. get a friend to give you a really hard punch on the bit between your collar bone and shoulder. They wont make you write with it and the doctors cant tell its a fake. Just squeal like a girl when she tries to move it passed chest height

ah good days..

ps: "A shelf stacked with paint cans at work fell on me while i was under it..." is always a good one.

StormWarrior · 30-09-2006 3:28pm

can you re do them in august? i live in the uk, by the way, not ireland.

dwayneburke · 30-09-2006 3:30pm

just as a matter of interest you have started college??? So arent you going to have this problem for the next 3/4 years? I think they are going to notice a trend eventually :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

And yes im gonna say it, why did you start college if a concert comes first!!

coyote6 · 30-09-2006 3:33pm

Plead temporary insanity.

dwayneburke · 30-09-2006 3:35pm

may not have to plead too hard...:D

projectmayhem · 30-09-2006 4:05pm

Faith wrote:

Just skip them and re-do them in August.

Good start to college.

that was my first thought. it's 1st year, how hard could they be anyway

Rabies · 30-09-2006 4:09pm

You are starting college, you are not a child. Grow up. Do your exams and suffer on like everyone else.

Pigman II · 30-09-2006 5:56pm

Yeah, can't you just 'not turn up' and then sit them in August?

Faith · 30-09-2006 5:59pm

I know people who just didn't turn up, but it was just to one exam apiece. Your uni might frown upon doing it for all of them.

gandalf · 30-09-2006 6:40pm

Nice to see you're committed to your education :rolleyes:

Nehpets · 30-09-2006 7:34pm

Say a holiday was planned for then and you can't get a refund so you HAVE to go:p

30-09-2006 7:40pm

Pigman II wrote:

Yeah, can't you just 'not turn up' and then sit them in August?

Some places require you to make what is called a 'serious attempt' at examinations, which basically means that if you just don't turn up, you may not be allowed to do repeats.

And what gandalf said.

Houston Griffin · 30-09-2006 9:44pm

Go to the concert, then have a friend drive over your ankle or manufacture some other injury that would have you in the emergency room in the hours before the exam.

aidan24326 · 01-10-2006 12:46am

You're some eejit if you're prepared to risk your future in uni for the sake of a bloody concert. There will be plenty of other opportunities to see those bands. Why not go to a different festival? What's so special about this one? (you didn't specify which one it is)

Anyway if you insist on missing the exams and going to the gig make sure you don't go telling any elaborate lies like the death of a relative as they would look for proof (and you'd be screwed). Also, as a previous poster said simply not turning up could also be very risky as they may not allow you to do the August repeats.

I would suggest this. After the exams (or better still during them), go to your GP. Tell him/her that you've been feeling really low/depressed of late, and couldn't possibly face doing your exams. You're having trouble sleeping, constantly tired, no appetite, feeling miserable etc. He/she will give you a doctor's certificate. They won't write depression on it if you don't want them to. Submit your sick cert and you can then do the August repeats. Though you'll be under pressure to pass them with no safety net.

An idiotic idea all the same.

01-10-2006 4:22am

Go into your exam.Take Salvia.Fake a mental breakdown.Then stabbed the ambulance man with your sharpened pencil and leg it to the concert.;)

Ruu_Old · 01-10-2006 4:49am

Go in to the exam and hide behind some coats then hope everything turns out ok.
Just plan it better next year and do your exams like a good chap, you'll logon and thank us someday.

justsomebloke · 01-10-2006 9:07am

ye I am going with if this happened this year, chances are that it may happen for the rest of your time in college, so what are you going to do try and get out of them every year so your best bet at that point would probably just drop out of college and become a pro groupie instead if that is what you really want to do

Mr Rivers · 01-10-2006 9:14am

Go to a different festival

me and the biz · 01-10-2006 9:26am

ayy In a course I was doing a few years ago they didn't let you go onto do the degree if you had to repeat exams in earlier years.. the Uni he's at might have some similar thing.

CathyMoran · 01-10-2006 9:55am

What Gandalf said - I know someone who repeated the year rather than miss out on something (he got a note saying that he was severely stressed)...I did not think much of him after that, nor did a lot of his contemporaries.