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Uni interview mess up

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TurnLeftAtTheRoundabout · 25/01/2024 17:31

Does anyone know anything about university admission interviews?
DC had an interview then qualified for extra time due to disability. The interview was delayed by a few months to accommodate this.
In the break between stations they realised that if "felt" too quick so dm'd the team. Got no response so carried on. After the session the participants were pulled into a break out room and told that the team had not realised that it was meant to be an extra time interview and so had done it on normal timings.
Does anyone know what happens now? The university has said they will contact the participants but dc is quite anxious about what has happened. Do they make them redo the interview or is it a case if scoring them up a bit as the accommodation wasnt made?

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TurnLeftAtTheRoundabout · 25/01/2024 18:48

Bump:)

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notknowledgeable · 25/01/2024 18:50

I can't understand your post, can you explain again please?

BurkeWalter · 25/01/2024 18:56

notknowledgeable · 25/01/2024 18:50

I can't understand your post, can you explain again please?

seems like it was a group interview, but one that should of had extra time and i belive the op is asking if anyone has had experience of this eg if the uni will redo or consider it was carried out in error etc

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TurnLeftAtTheRoundabout · 26/01/2024 06:45

Sorry for not being clear.

It is for medicine. The interview was on teams and there were a number if people in the "extra time" group that did this interview. The interview is in six parts, all individually. Then they all got put in a teams breakout room together and told that they hadnt been given the extra time for each part.

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CormorantStrikesBack · 26/01/2024 07:14

Would normally be scoring them up a bit. Not reinterviewing them as they will now know the questions so would have an unfair advantage.

NoNotHimTheOtherOne · 26/01/2024 07:19

If this is about medicine multiple mini-interviews (MMIs), it's worth posting on the higher education board (https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/higher_education).

I don't think it's likely they'll increase scores, as they've no way of knowing how individual candidates would have performed if given more time. There are things they could do like assume that the same proportions of extra-time and standard-time candidates would have been successful and fixing a number of offers to make to extra-time candidates on this basis. However, that's only really legitimate if there was quite a large number of extra-timers.

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