PURPOSE: this regulation explains what happens to your module assessments if you request consideration of exceptional circumstances.

4.1 Consideration of your exceptional circumstances

The University recognises that students can be affected by serious difficulties which can impact their studies. Where your exceptional circumstances have been accepted by the University, you will be given the opportunity to take the assessment task that was affected again if you did not achieve the minimum overall pass mark in the module.
The mark will not be capped unless you have already had one attempt and the exceptional circumstances relate to the reassessment attempt.
Where there are multiple tasks within a module, you will only need to take the assessments affected by the circumstances. This will usually be:
• In the same format as the initial task (e.g. if the initial task was an exam, the reassessment will normally be an exam).
• A re-work of the original task, or where this is not appropriate (i.e., in a multiple choice test where answers have been revealed) a new task will be required.
• An alternative format of the task may be set if it is not appropriate for you to be assessed by the same method as at the initial attempt, for example, if this was group work or took place on a field trip.
Further information can be found in the Extensions and Exceptional Circumstances Policy