Mitigating Circumstances
Process
During your studies you may be affected by sudden or unforeseen circumstances. You should always contact your course directors and the Masters admin team (chemres@imperial.ac.uk) for advice and support. If the circumstances occur at the time of, or immediately preceding your assessments you may be able to make a claim for mitigating circumstances. If successful this claim enables the Board of Examiners when reviewing your marks at the end of the year to have greater discretion with regards to offering repeat attempts (either capped or uncapped), a repeat year, or with your progression or final classification. Please note, the Board are not permitted to amend the marks that you were awarded, only to take your claim into account making decisions.
All claims must be supported by independent evidence and submitted within 10 working days after the assessment deadline. Any claim made after this deadline is likely to be rejected unless there is a good reason (such as you were still unwell) until the point of submitting the claim.
Through the procedure you may also be able to request an extension deadline to some forms of assessment. Wherever possible it is expected that this is used as it will enable to you complete your studies within the same College year (rather than over the summer holiday or in the next year).
Where to apply
You can apply for Mitigating Circumstances on Zinc. Zinc is a bespoke system created and customed for use in the Department of Chemistry for MRes programmes.
All claims are considered and processed solely by the welfare and pastoral teams within the Department of Chemistry.
Ongoing and long-term conditions
Support for ongoing or long-term conditions, or for registered disabilities would not normally fall under the remit of mitigating circumstances and students should be supported through their studies with Additional Examination Arrangements. More details can be found on Adjustments and Support.
Frequently asked questions
- What evidence do I need?
- Can a claim be raised for me by someone else?
- What happens once I have submitted the claim?
- How long will a claim take to be considered?
- What happens if my claim is successful?
- What happens if my claim is not successful?
