While preparing for or undertaking assessments, you may experience personal circumstances that impact on your studies.  If this is the case then you must report these as extenuating circumstances on the University form with evidence to your School Office as soon as possible and before the deadline published by your School.

Extenuating circumstances are circumstances that:

• have prevented you from performing at your usual level in an assessment or examination, and
• are severe and exceptional, and
• are unforeseen or unavoidable, and
• are close in time to the affected assessment or examination.

There are a number of remedies available to Schools for students who have valid extenuating circumstances.  These can apply only if you report your circumstances by the published deadline.  Students with ongoing changing or worsening circumstances will need to report their circumstances each time an assessment is affected.  The University will never assume that a student wants circumstances to be considered.

https://intranet.cardiff.ac.uk/students/your-study/exams-and-assessment/extenuating-circumstances

https://healthcaresciences.cf.ac.uk/elearning/extcirc.htm

 

The above flowchart is also available as a PDF file.