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Absent from exam - illness

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  • 16-05-2017 3:22pm
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    123456789j
    Registered Users Posts: 78 ✭✭


    I am a final year student who was due to sit his last exam today. However since yesterday morning I have been very sick with a vomiting bug, diarrhoea ( sorry about details) and have had strong migraines since. As a result, I was unable to sit my exam today on advice from my GP.

    I have emailed the chair of law and government who told me that I will have to submit an extenuating circumstances form pending review.

    I am very anxious and worried as I am
    currently on a 2.1 and my previous exams had gone well.
    So I am Just enquiring as to the likelihood of my deferral? And if you know from any past cases that I will be allowed sit my exam as a first attempt in August.


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    Maldesu
    Registered Users Posts: 1,416 ✭✭✭Maldesu


    Happened to a friend and iirc she sat a new exam a couple weeks later. She did it in a room in UCD with a few other people who also missed exams.
    Submit the form as soon as you can and just get well.


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    123456789j
    Registered Users Posts: 78 ✭✭123456789j


    Maldesu wrote: »
    Happened to a friend and iirc she sat a new exam a couple weeks later. She did it in a room in UCD with a few other people who also missed exams.
    Submit the form as soon as you can and just get well.

    Does the nature of the illness make a difference? I'm thinking of asking the doctor to exaggerate it a little bit. I will probably feel fine tomorrow


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    Maldesu
    Registered Users Posts: 1,416 ✭✭✭Maldesu


    Nope. UCD can't ask. If your doctor says you couldn't do it, then that's all they need to know. It happens all the time


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    jo2509
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    Gastroenteritis/vomiting bug is reason enough. Apart from feeling rough yourself you'd also risk infecting everyone else in the exam hall if you did get 'caught short'!

    But as the poster above says, once the doctor certifies you unfit to take the exam, it is unlikely that the college will dispute this.

    Hope you feel better soon.


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    123456789j
    Registered Users Posts: 78 ✭✭123456789j


    jo2509 wrote: »
    Gastroenteritis/vomiting bug is reason enough. Apart from feeling rough yourself you'd also risk infecting everyone else in the exam hall if you did get 'caught short'!

    But as the poster above says, once the doctor certifies you unfit to take the exam, it is unlikely that the college will dispute this.

    Hope you feel better soon.



    Quick update,
    Handed in extenuating circumstances form with doctors note. It was marked illness and signed by lecturer and dropped into registry. Do you know if that means it should be deferred or is it does it have to go to an appeals board now?


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