Special circumstances procedure
You should alert the University to any medical or other circumstances affecting you. The Exam Board is able to consider these if your Director of Studies completes the relevant form and submits it to the Student Support Office, (law.sso@ed.ac.uk).
Documentation
The Board will normally require documentation.
For illness of a student or relative this usually means a medical certificate.
For a bereavement the University requires a copy of the death certificate or funeral announcement or funeral order of service.
For students who are being counselled a letter from the counsellor will assist the Board.
Deadlines
Students will receive an email from the Student Support Officer in the run-up to each exam diet informing them of the deadline by which special circumstances must be submitted. The Board will normally be unable to consider these unless the form completed by the Director and supporting documentation have been received by that date.
It cannot be stressed too heavily that if you wait to tell your Director of Studies or the Student Support Officer after the results have been available, you will be too late. The only circumstance in which late submission of medical evidence will be permitted is where that evidence could not have been available to the examiners when deciding the final mark.
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