applications for mitigation is normally submitted before finding the assessment deadline. Your School/Division will tell you the by which Deadlines: final date submissions should be received. You should keep to this. If you miss the deadline it is essential that you say why. The institution does not guarantee to consider submissions which are received late, although it will consider them if it is clear there was good cause for the deadline to be missed. What happens next? Decision by the Mitigation The Mitigation Panel considers your submission and categorises the circumstances as follows: A - Very serious circumstances B Extenuating circumstances, sufficient to make appropriate decision – to defer an assessment C Extenuating circumstances which are not deemed sufficiently – serious to make a deferral of assessment appropriate The decision of the Mitigation Panel will be sent to your School/Division. You will be informed of the outcome as follows: Category A You need not submit for re-assessment, the Board of Examiners will determine the range of options possible. Category B You may submit for re-assessment. You will be given a new submission date which you must keep to this date and receive the full range of marks for the assessment. Any re-assessment will be marked as a referral (received Category C a maximum mark of 40%). The range of options open to a Board of Examiners for Category A circumstances are: Permit a different form of assessment (eg a viva) Deem the student to have passed the assessment a mark for the work Raise the mark for the work, or allow re-assessment to raise the mark the relevant award if it is the final stage. Normal Outcome To be classed as category A, circumstances have to be very severe or very protracted. Consequently, the more outcome where mitigation is accepted is a classification of B, which results in a decision that the assessment can
applications for mitigation is normally submitted before finding the assessment deadline. Deadlines: Your School/Division will tell you the final date by which submissions should be received. You should keep to this. If you miss the deadline it is essential that you say why. The institution does not guarantee to consider submissions which are received late, although it will consider them if it is clear there was good cause for the deadline to be missed. What happens next? Decision by the Mitigation The Mitigation Panel considers your submission and categorises the circumstances as follows: A - Very serious circumstances B – Extenuating circumstances, sufficient to make appropriate decision to defer an assessment C – Extenuating circumstances which are not deemed sufficiently serious to make a deferral of assessment appropriate The decision of the Mitigation Panel will be sent to your School/Division. You will be informed of the outcome as follows: Category A You need not submit for re-assessment, the Board of Examiners will determine the range of options possible. Category B You may submit for re-assessment. You will be given a new submission date which you must keep to this date and receive the full range of marks for the assessment. Category C Any re-assessment will be marked as a referral (received a maximum mark of 40%). The range of options open to a Board of Examiners for Category A circumstances are: Permit a different form of assessment (eg a viva) Deem the student to have passed the assessment a mark for the work Raise the mark for the work, or allow re-assessment to raise the mark the relevant award if it is the final stage. Normal Outcome To be classed as category A, circumstances have to be very severe or very protracted. Consequently, the more outcome where mitigation is accepted is a classification of B, which results in a decision that the assessment can