What happens if you miss a GCSE exam?

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DS is in year 10 so GCSEs aren’t until next year.

He gets migraines. They come in clusters, so he’ll go a few months without one, and then he’ll have them every 1-2 weeks for a couple of months. When he has a migraine he’s completely incapacitated for several hours. The tablets he has done help. He’s seen a neurologist and may be starting on preventative medication, which might solve the problem.

I’ve started to wonder what happens if he has a migraine on the morning of a GCSE exam. As I recall, each subject has a couple of papers. Do they mark the one he did and give a grade based on that? Or does he have to re-sit the whole thing? Does anyone have experience of this?

thanks

He has to complete a minimum amount of the total exam/assessment for the subject and the score of missing paper is based on his performance in those relative to cohort , if he has medical evidence at the time submitted by the school under Special Consideration.

GCSE (AQA, OCR, Pearson and WJEC specifications): one whole component, which is a minimum of 15% of the total assessment, must have been completed^.

https://www.jcq.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Guide_to_spec_con_process_2023_24_FINAL.pdf

• from Section 4: Candidates who are absent from a timetabled component/unit for acceptable reasons