WIBU to apply for Special Consideration?

[HowToTrainYourTeen]

DD is due to sit her GCSE maths exams next week. FIL passed away on the weekend, which means DD would be eligible for Special Consideration (essentially she'd get 5% of the total marks added on). I really don't think FIL's death will affect her performance at all, but based on her performance in practice papers these marks will almost certainly be the difference between grades. WIBU to apply for the extra marks?

Honestly.? I’m quite mercenary and would ask my child if she wished me to do so and would if she said yes, , if my daughter said no, I’d not do it, but do feel there is an element of cheating about it, which would potentially tarnish it when the results came in.

On balance I’d prefer she said no and performed honestly but I’d be willing to do it for her if she asked.

This is how people get unjustified extra marks is it? Without putting the effort in?

YANBU.

Some of us actually had parents, who died during our exams. Your thoughts are in very poor taste if you don’t think it will affect your dd. Do it if you want. I resat the only exam I’d had inflated because I couldn’t stand the thought of cheating.

I think OP should apply because she doesn’t actually know how this will affect her daughter

She ‘thinks’ it won’t affect her

Having said that i agree that the daughter should be asked as well, she may not want this at all

@mrsanflowerpot

As a member of senior staff who oversees exams, just to say the 5% is a continuum. In my experience the death of a grandparent just before an exam is very likely to be given a maximum of a 1% increase.

I'm an Exams Manager and this is true. Additionally you can't apply yourself - the school have to do it on your behalf.

People think SC is this magic bullet when it really isn't.

You wouldn’t be unreasonable. You don’t know how it may affect her - it’s only fair that you even up the playing field so she’s not disadvantaged compared to other kids.

I resat the only exam I’d had inflated because I couldn’t stand the thought of cheating.

It wasn’t cheating, and I’m so sorry that people let you think that way. You shouldn’t have borne such an irrational burden, particularly as a child.