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I’m wondering if anyone has any experience with mitigating circumstances, i.e what ACCA will allow and what action they take. Do they increase your mark at all?
I haven’t been able to sit exams for several years due to a chronic illness with fluctuating symptoms. I attempted March session and found it more difficult due to fatigue and brain fog when answering some of the questions. I had to read some things over and over again and took me a while to get started. I only attempted about 3/4 of the paper due to this. Would ACCA take this into consideration at all? Thanks.
There is no information about exactly how ACCA may make allowance – maybe a very marginal fail (48-49%) might be given benefit, but isn’t going to help an outright fail. By mitigating circumstances we are generally talking about illness/accident/bereavement etc pretty much on the day.
Details about making a claim cane be found in the section “What happens if I have attended my examinations but it has been affected by illness or other factors?” here https://www.accaglobal.com/uk/en/help/exam-sessions.html#FAQs-about-sitting-an-exam
When you log in to myACCA, in the “My qualifications” section of the Student Portal you will see a link to “Centre complaints” in the list below the “Book an exam” link.
Note that the very strict deadline for submitting claims is 13 March.However, as you have a chronic illness you might instead consider requesting additional support for future exams https://www.accaglobal.com/uk/en/student/exam-entry-and-administration/additional-support.html
Thank you, I feel like it may be close and was unable to answer a big chunk of the paper due to it.
Do you know what additional support can be requested for chronic illnesses? I was unsure on what could be accommodated. I am one to just get on with things but I did notice a difference in my performance compared to before I got a chronic illness.
For me it is remembering a huge amount of rules/conditions and time management of the exam due to fatigue/brain fog.
Thanks
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