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bereavement during exams

  • 23-05-2007 2:50pm
    #1
    darraghw
    Closed Accounts Posts: 146 ✭✭


    Just wondering if a death of a family member occurs during your exams is there any special dispensation made?


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  • #2
    Tacitha
    Closed Accounts Posts: 131 ✭✭Tacitha


    Yes: there are a couple of possibilities. If you've missed an exam, or the exam hasn't happened yet, and you need to miss it and are in sophister years, you'll probably qualify to have a special paper set for you later under the 'serious difficulties in attending' clause. If you're in Freshman years, they'll allow you to sit the subjects in mid-September as a first attempt (no fee, no fail on transcript, option of repeating).

    If you've sat an exam and feel your performance has been impaired, there is no official upgrade, but examiners' meetings can be informed, via your tutor. If you want to withdraw from the exams now and sit them all in September (Freshman years) or either later in this exam session or at this time next year (Sophister years) that has to go via the Senior Lecturer. It's your tutor's job to sort that out, so you should start there, or with the senior tutor, who is brilliant at this kind of thing, and very quick:

    Claire Laudet
    Senior Tutor
    House 27
    Trinity College Dublin
    Tel. : 896 20 04/25 51
    Fax : 672 50 89
    senior.tutor@tcd.ie

    Your tutor must be told, and it's a good idea to let others know, but you probably won't want to have the trouble of rooting people out, so I'd go straight to tutor / senior tutor, phone if necessary, and let them do the work. Hope things work out all right for you.


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