ElDragonChan said:
what you need to do is get a doctors certificate and get special consideration and they wont count the result for that exam.
That actually will depend on the school's policy - some schools will accept that.
Mine won't unless there is more than just the student's word for it that they were sick during the exam i.e. the supervisor saw them sick and they went straight to the doctor or they didn't do the exam and had the certificate at school on the next day, and sat the exam on that next day. We expect students to sit all trial exams as a guide to the marks even if we don't count that actual mark, with the understanding that we never estimate a student into first place - so if you don't do the exam on the day our policy is that you can't get first for that task, even if you have come first on all other assessment tasks. It is designed to stop the first ranked student deciding that they are sick to protect their ranking. Of course, if they are way in front, they should still get the #1 ranking but just not necessarily on that task.
Each school sets their own assessment policy. There are a range of differences between schools for instance e.g. our policy is to penalise students 50% of the total available marks one day late submission (which means after recess of the date due) so if a task is out of 20 a student who hands it in after recess looses 10 marks. Other schools will allow tasks to be submitted at any time during the day and/or will penalise less per day and might only penalise the % of what the student earnt rather than a % of the maximum mark available. Being at a private school that is registered every five years with BOS inspectors actually checking off the policy ours has been approved over the years.
