4. Where your performance or ability to work on your assessments has been negatively affected by situations beyond your control, you can ask for an additional chance to complete your assessment due to your ‘exceptional circumstances’. You can make a request for consideration of your Exceptional Circumstances for all first and reassessment attempts.
5. An approved request means that you will be given another opportunity at the assessment. If it is a first attempt, the mark will not be capped. If it is a reassessment, the mark will still be capped. This piece of work will be submitted at the next published point of assessment. This could be towards the end of the academic year.
6. It is not possible to make a request for ECs for In-Module Retrieval attempts.
7. Examples of Exceptional Circumstances include but are not limited to the following and each case will be considered on its own merit:
Significant short-term physical illness or injury.
Significant short-term mental ill-health.
A long-term or chronic physical or mental health condition, which has recently worsened temporarily or permanently.
Death or serious illness of a person with whom you have a close relationship.
A long-term relationship breakdown, such as a marriage or other partnership.
Victim of a crime which is likely to have significant emotional impact.
Military conflict, natural disaster, or extreme weather conditions.
Severe financial difficulties.
Exposure to a difficult/challenging home environment.
8. Examples of situations that are not Exceptional Circumstances:
A long-term or chronic health condition (which is supported by your Learning Contract as appropriate).
Circumstances which were foreseeable or preventable.
Holidays.
Pressure of academic work (unless this contributes to ill-health).
Poor time-management.
Lack of awareness of dates or times of assessment submission or examination.
Failures of equipment, including IT systems and computer viruses. These will only be accepted when they occur site-wide, nationally, or internationally and can be verified by an independent source.
Attending an interview for a job or placement (Where an interview for employment or a work placement clash with a scheduled assessment, a student is expected to rearrange the interview for a more appropriate time, if the employer has flexibility to do that).
Requests relating to group assessment, particularly in relation to the planning and preparation (e.g., intra-group conflict or absence/non-cooperation of one or more group members). Instead, these should be reported directly to the Module Leader at the earliest opportunity.
