Gcse - poorly?

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Dd has a rotten cold and cough, she had an RE exam today and thinks she did worse than expected, this is the first one she didn't feel has gone well. Tomorrow is Maths so more important, can any allowance be given for the fact she doesn't feel well? She went to bed at 3.30 when she went home and was shivering in school this afternoon. She has a scribe due to SEN and so the talking has also taken its toll and she's very croaky!

Her twin brother also has a cough not is nowhere near as 'ill' as she is.

As the scribe knew she was ill would it have been noted today? Should I be contacting the school?

No, not a lot, sadly.
I mean, 'hospitalised' maybe.
'Under the weather' - no.

If she misses an exam due to illness I think there’s a make up day. However as other kids would have taken the exam I don’t know how that works (in terms of the possibility of them telling her what was on it). I doubt they take into account that she wasn’t feeling well. If she sat the exam that’s it. But ask.

No make up day. If she is unwell call the exams officer to see if she can be in separate room but it won't get her special consideration without a doctor's note.

Ds1 had his GCSEs two years ago (currently doing his A Levels) and he was really unwell for a few days before the exams and for the first couple of days of the exams. I rang school before his first exam to ask what happened if he was too ill for them, could he do the exam another time etc. just in case.

School said he'd need a doctor's letter about how ill he was, it is not their decision and there was a process the board who made the decision went through to decide the outcome; but it is rare to allow exams to be sat for 'general' illness. They said if he was able to get in for the exam they recommend he did so. Also, if other pupils had already sat the exam it could be discussed so if an exam was sat later it would have to be arranged to do a different one.

We gave ds the weekend to recuperate and he went in, still unwell, but got through it. We gave him the option of missing it (English) to be less tired for his next exam, but he went in. Still failed the English (he has aspergers and hates English) but still passed his other subjects with flying colours, so doing the 'extra' exam didn't affect the results of his other exams detrimentally.

It all depends how unwell your dd is and if you think it will affect the subsequent exams if she tires herself out in the next exam she sits, and what importance you place on each subject, as to whether or not she takes her next exam. But don't expect her to have a chance of doing any missed exams later, if she does miss some you can apply to sit them later, but write off the chances of doing them and if she gets to take them at another time it will be a bonus.

Ds1 is doing his A levels and ds2 is doing his GCSEs at the moment and we are praying they don't get ill. With two more dc there is always the risk someone will bring something nasty home, we should probably put everyone in solitary confinement!

Hi, I'm an exams officer. If a student misses an exam, they can not resit it. There is no second paper. Everyone has to take the same exam at the same time to ensure a level playing field across the board. There is a contingency day at the end of the exams this year, but that is in case of national disruption. The school can put in for special consideration for your DD is she is ill when she sits the paper. You will have a stronger case with medical evidence.

Here in wales. There are no make up days.
As the examiner told me if your mum had died the morning of the exam they would award you an extra 10marks!
What I have had to do is explain the reason for the absence at the exam and the WJEC exam board are going to estimate her mark on her previous scores ( thank god she’s an A* student) and that will stand as her grade .
Hope that makes sense

If the exam board accepts your reason for missing an exam, they will calculate your score based on your performance in the other papers. E.g. If you score 2 standard deviations from the average score for paper 1 & then miss paper 2, they will award you 2 standard deviations from the average score for paper 2. If the exam board does not accept your reseson for missing the exam, you will score 0 for paper 2.