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- March 7, 2024 at 6:56 am #702256
Hi, just wanting some guidance as to whether this would be considered as mitigating circumstances?
In the run up to the exam I discovered a lump, on checking the doctor referred me for an ultrasound exam. He rang me the day before the exam asking me to go in for the results.
I’ve submitted my appointment letter as proof for my cancer screening, and a full explanation. I sat the exam yesterday but to say it has affected me would be an understatement.
The ACCA will consider things like this in the exam marking??
March 7, 2024 at 7:00 am #702257The scan results are scheduled for next week
March 7, 2024 at 7:38 am #702260Yes, but as I have written in answer to many mitigating circumstances posts (please use the search function to review), this will not change the pass/fail outcome except in the case of a marginal fail. This is discretionary marks are only a few and single digits, not tens.
March 8, 2024 at 7:05 am #702379@KimSmith
I’ve seen a definition of a marginal fail on the acca website as 45-49. Mitigating circumstances would only help if the score is within these parameters – is that correct ?
March 8, 2024 at 7:31 am #702381I would say in that region, yes. So if the panel that is looking at mitigating circumstances is looking at a script with a mark of 39, it’s really not something they can mark up to a pass. This is according to my understanding of the process.
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