What happens when you miss an exam?

Aoifey! · 09-05-2012 5:26pm #1

I missed an exam yesterday and I was wondering if you don't show up do you just get a fail and have to repeat or is there an extra problem with it?

brian plank · 09-05-2012 8:13pm

surely you could still pass on CA? the website doesn't give much info.

Howlin1 · 09-05-2012 11:34pm

It could depend on the module, does the module require you to pass both the CA and the exam?
It might be best to talk to Brian the education officer in the Students Union to find out if no one here knows.

Paddy001 · 10-05-2012 3:45pm

You were sick, go back to the doctor and get a cert

Then you can resit it in August and it wont affect your average as it will be your first sitting if its important for you and you wont have to pay the repeat fee

Aoifey! · 10-05-2012 10:42pm

The module is 100% exam. Do you have to fill out a form or can you just wait for the results and get 0%

Princess Peach · 10-05-2012 10:44pm

Were you sick? I missed exams before, you have 3 days to bring a doctors cert to your department general office, and you get a deferral for the repeat exams.

Paddy001 · 10-05-2012 10:46pm

http://www.wit.ie/exams/AppealProcedures/#d.en.7827

Princess Peach · 10-05-2012 11:08pm

Should mention, even if you weren't technically sick, a few times my sick cert said "Stress/ Anxiety" and that's an acceptable illness!

Aoifey! · 11-05-2012 3:05am

Paddy001 wrote: »

You were sick, go back to the doctor and get a cert Then you can resit it in August and it wont affect your average as it will be your first sitting if its important for you and you wont have to pay the repeat fee

I like your thinking :P

Princess Peach wrote: »

Should mention, even if you weren't technically sick, a few times my sick cert said "Stress/ Anxiety" and that's an acceptable illness!

I could probably get a doctor to go with that, that is actually pretty much the reason I didn't go in.

I guess my real question is, if I don't say anything to anyone and just leave it will I get a 0 and be allowed pay and repeat the exam in August? Because if so i have no problem with doing that.

Princess Peach · 11-05-2012 6:15am

I really don't know. Is the exam going towards your degree average? If so the 0 will be counted as your average and not your resit of it no matter what mark you get. But if you have a mitigating circumstance the resit will count as your first sitting of it, and it is that grade you will be given.

Maybe give your department a call in the morning?

Paddy001 · 11-05-2012 9:59am

Aoifey! wrote: »

I like your thinking :P

I could probably get a doctor to go with that, that is actually pretty much the reason I didn't go in.

I guess my real question is, if I don't say anything to anyone and just leave it will I get a 0 and be allowed pay and repeat the exam in August? Because if so i have no problem with doing that.

If you haven't failed anything else I'd just go to the doctor, its cheaper than repeat fees and plus it would be counted as your first sitting! No doctor will have a problem signing a cert for you

Aoifey! · 13-05-2012 5:31pm

Sick cert acquired, thanks for the advice

beegirl · 15-05-2012 9:24am

Hi Aoifey, make sure you drop that cert in to the school office or your lecturer as soon as you can (if you haven't already!), I think the guidelines say within 5 working days of the missed exam - which is today - and fill in a mitigating circumstances form. It will come up as deferred on your results and August will be considered your first attempt rather than a repeat, as others have said!

What happens when you miss an exam?

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