University Mitigating Circumstances Policy大学缓和的的环境政策.docVIP

CODE OF PRACTICE ON ASSESSMENT APPENDIX M Policy on Mitigating Circumstances in Relation to Performance in Assessments and Examinations 2011-12 Applicable to all cohorts  Policy on Mitigating Circumstances in Relation to Performance in Assessments and Examinations 1. Definition of Mitigating Circumstances 1.1 Students sometimes perform more poorly in assessments (whether examinations or other types of assessments) than their previous performance or achievements would have predicted. Sometimes this poor performance can be attributed, or partially attributed, to particular circumstances beyond the control of the student. These circumstances are described as ‘mitigating circumstances’ if they are accepted in mitigation of the poorer than expected performance; this context ‘poorer than expected performance’ includes missing assessments or examinations. When a Board of Examiners accepts that there have been mitigating circumstances, it will usually not regard the student’s poorer than expected performance at its face value in making decisions about the student’s progress in studies or final degree classification. 1.2 Mitigating circumstances might include: Illness affecting the student. Bereavement. Serious illness affecting a close family member. Unforeseeable or unpreventable events. Independent documentary evidence, such as medical certificates, must be provided in all cases to verify mitigating circumstances. If the documentary evidence is provided by someone other than a medical practitioner (as recognised by the GMC) the documentation must include details of that person’s qualifications or standing; the evidence will still need to be accepted by the Mitigating Circumstances Committee and it will be for the Board of Examiners to make a judgement as to value or weight they attached to the evidence in deciding a case of mitigating circumstances. 1.3 The following will not be regarded as mitigating circumstances: Failure to attend an examination due to misrea