Special consideration for A levels after a medical emergency

[Curiouscase]

Please can you tell me your experience of ‘special consideration’ in A Levels? My DS suffered a medical emergency in his A level today.
School said they will apply to exam board for special consideration for all his exams.
Realistically, what does this mean? Will exam board take into account his grades from school assessments prior to exams? Or just add 1-5% to his score (a quick google suggests the latter).
Obviously his main worry is it impacting his uni application. Should I/he contact the uni admissions team?
(Will also post on HE board)
Thank you

How many papers does this subject have. What was emergency - sounds like he sat it and managed to answer the questions. Most likely it to base his result on the other paper if the result today was much lower.

He had an epileptic seizure (tonic clonic). He wanted to continue after the seizure despite the fact that normally it takes hours/days to recover mentally and physically.

Sorry, it has 3 papers. Thank you

https://www.jcq.org.uk/knowledge-hub/a-guide-to-the-special-consideration-process-2/

I think he is likely to be given 2%, but only if it had a material effect on being able to demonstrate his knowledge. E.g. if it was almost at the end of the exam, and he had answered most questions, it would be given less credit than if it was at the beginning of the exam.

My Dd is epileptic and doing her GCSEs. This is my biggest fear right now. ☹️ I hope he’s recovering ok.

Bear in mind that if he isn't well enough to sit the next exam, he may be better off missing it than dragging himself in and scoring poorly. Talk to the school exams officer about what evidence they might need for this.

@Smartiepants79 thank you. I’m just terrified about his epilepsy - medication does not seem to be working right now. and just so gutted for him. I don’t want it to jeopardise his place at uni
the stress of exams and the stress of having a seizure causes a seizure…so it’s a pretty vicious circle.
really hope your DD manages all her GCSEs safely

I'm not sure about considerations for the exam he has already, but for the later ones he should be able to get medical rest breaks, which means that if he had a seizure, they would stop the clock and restart it again when he felt better. This is not a hard thing to get and the school can grant it, it does not need to go through the exam board. While some students with rest breaks do have a limit to the number and length of breaks (e.g 1 break of up to 10 mins every hour), I have a student with a serious medical condition who has unlimited breaks (both length and number).