Guys, I'm freaking out. I was feeling really sick last night, and I had my last exams today. I did go, because I wanted to be over and done with for the term, but because I felt so sick, I think I might have not done well. So far I'm on 80% rougly for each subject. Do they take my sickness into account when calculating my university admission index?
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Sick for exams, what happens? (2 Viewers)
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Im just not ready...
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If you have a cold or the flu?
No.
No.
you have to get a doctors certificate for the day of the exam (they probably wont backdate them). Photocopy it, and give it to the exam supervisors/year masters to submit with an application for special consideration.
EDIT - if its something piss weak like a cold etc, then no you won't get anything. tough luck, i had much worse happen to me on the hsc and i didnt even bother getting a doc's certificate. harden up
EDIT - if its something piss weak like a cold etc, then no you won't get anything. tough luck, i had much worse happen to me on the hsc and i didnt even bother getting a doc's certificate. harden up
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nah man, unforunitly it doesn't work like that.thommy said:
Heaps of kids bomb out in a single exam.
But i see what you mean.
What you should've done was presented them a DC saying you couldnt sit it today, and then gone tomorrow ( hopefully if your better ) and done the exam.
Just focus on the future, and you know what to do next time:uhhuh:
I doubt tomorow would make much difference, I thave a virus, and wil probably have it for a week, as I've had it before, and it lasts a week. The thing is though, if I did bomb out(I stress if) it's not my fault, it's being sick. I'll ask the director of studies and if he says that it doesn't matter that I have doctor's certificate, well let's just say that I won't take it lying down.risole91 said:
Thats fair enough, but you won't have a strong enough argument.thommy said:
You were sick BUT you still did the exam, you had a doctors cert so you could've chosen not to.
I would definitly argue, but it will be hard to win.
All the best!
Thanks for your support.risole91 said:
The reason why I did it was because my only other chance would be tomorrow, and I wouldn't be better by then anyway. I mean, I got 80% in my first assessment, and if I get similar results in the oher assessments, then surely they would have to look at it and see why? I mean, do they have common sense? Btw, the subject is economics, though that's probably irrelevant.
Thanks again.
Yeah, well they might see, or they might so you wernt prepared.thommy said:
It might even come down to how much they like you.
They will look at is as you say, but in the past no one has been able to do so..
I would accept that if the exam was last week, in wich time I should recover to do it, say, today or tomorrow. The thing is, however, that I contracted this virus yesterday, and my only other chance of doing the exam would be tomorrow, by which time I still won't be better, seeing it's all of one day.risole91 said: