ARGH

[arthmelow]

I've been dong resits at the moment, and after the one on Friday I was worried about whether my handwriting will be readable ( this has always been a problem, and it cost me about a grade in every subject in my A levels ). I sent an email to the educational psychologist who did my assessment and asked if about obtaining copies of my exam scripts to look at because I didn't feel the extra time was assisting with the handwriting at all. She responded with the forgottern conversation I had where it was suggested I could type my exams and I said no at the time, and offered to change it back for me. So I asked, and she then called the exams office to ask if I could sit my final exam ( today ) in the computer room with everyone else who used a computer. I then got a lovely email stating what building it would be in, and thought that was that.

*Zoom* to today. Arrive at 7.45am
1. I can't remember the building number ( I keep thinking 27 or 29 but it was 24 )
2. I go to all the buildings looking for lists and find my name on the list in the room I would have been in without the computer. Now 8.15am.
*panic*
3. Go up to ask examiners for help and they have no record of me moving to another room. I can't remember the name of the examiner that emailed me on the previous Friday. They then attempt to find the room with me. 8.35am
4. 8.45am. Room is found and the examiner in that room has no record of me moving to that room. They let me stay in there anyway.

So instead of getting the usual 30mins to go over notes before I enter the exam ( seems to really help ) I get nothing at all. Plus the shock of what had happened had seemed to kill my memory: I couldn't remember very basic things and was incredibly slow in the entire exam. Plus I didn't know the notation to reference things over to the normal exam paper from the computer ( I guessed ).

Overall, this has probably cost me a pass. Which means I either fail and leave university or I have to be suspended until I can sit the exam again ( JUNE ). It is probably the former because they might argue in the examination review meeting "well she got a computer and she failed still so we're not going to allow her to do it again".

I was exempt from my first year's set of exams because I had significant personal problems and medical problems. So I resat the year. I then spent most of this year in a quasi-depressive state doing very little, so then failed the June ones. This is my last chance really: I don't think resitting again is possible lol.

I think fate/life is trying to tell me to stop university.

[Greg]

Fate/Life can't tell you what to do and if they think that they can nut 'em.

Sounds like you talked to a lot of people about it, so the situation is recorded. It can't hurt to put in for post-exam mitigations based on it, the worst they can do is say no and it's much better to put in before you get your results - it gets taken more seriously. If they try to claim that the situation was your problem point at the...gah...what's the name of the disabilities act that essentially means unis need to provide appropriate help&support? I'm sure someone here will know but I can look it up if they don't - it's in my (chaotic) notes somewhere. It makes a lot of uni people very jumpy.

Plus you might have passed anyway, many students underestimate themselves.

[robyn]

can you ask for the previous sessions where you've not manage to be discounted on medical grouds? then you just redo what ever you need to compleate. its worth asking uni about