Feeling helpless at the moment, and would love to hear others' experiences. My DD is an undergraduate at a Russell group uni. She's very bright, but following a haul of top grade GCSEs and two academic scholarships at school, she gradually started to fall off her perch academically.
During her second year at uni, (which coincided with Covid) and only just scraping through her exams, she was finally diagnosed with ADHD. She was permitted to repeat the second year, and since then, she has just about managed to keep a handle on her studies, until today. She has found out that she has failed the third year exam she took in August, having been sick (or so she said - I have my suspicions that she couldn't face it) back in the Spring.
She has been told that she will have to repeat the whole year, meaning six years at uni, or convert from an MSc to a BSc, - five years. She has a meeting with the faculty tutor tomorrow to discuss.
I am just devastated for her. She likens her ADHD as sitting in a car with all the controls at her disposal but no key to turn the engine on. Part of me wants to wrap her up and bring her home, but equally I want her to succeed (which I know is what she wants for herself). She has said that she hates the subject she has chosen, but having invested four years in her degree already, feels it is far too late to drop out.
I don't know how to advise her.