ill and could not attend exam?

Question:

today i had sever back pain and i have an open university exam but i cannot sit in a chair for 3 hours my back is painful, i am concerned that the university will not let me resit the exam, i really want to do it and have passed all my coursework, they are very strict though and might think it is just normal back pain and not that bad, my doctor has given me a sick note, i am a bit apprehensive about telling them as they may say the problem is not that bad, any suggestions what i should do. I really want to resit the exam to get a good job.

Answers:
Are "they" medical experts? The chances are that they are not! They cannot argue with a doctors note which is a legal document. I think you will find that in situations of ill health the uni are duty bound to help in any way they can, which may mean physical help or just breaking the exam into smaller parts allowing you rest time.
Don't put off discussing it with the powers taht be, the sooner it is sorted you sooner you can concentrate on getting back to normal.

Sit the exam, do what you can hand in the note to the exam board to explain why your performance was maybe below par, espesh if you couldn't sit the whole 3 hours.

- the note will provide extenuating circumstances in the event of your mark being borderline and you may well be bumped up.

Don't turn up and you can use the note for writing a shopping list on...

Best of luck with the exam, btw!

the best thing to do is to speak to the university and see what they say, if you have a note for your doc then i dont think they can do anything about it and must surley let you sit the exam at another time.

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