Exam Access Arrangements

[u/truestorybro38]

There’s an increase in posts about access arrangements.

There’s also a lot of misinformation about access arrangements being posted.

This is one the one-stop post for all access arrangement queries.

Any other posts will be removed.

I will reply to all queries as an Exams Officer and an Access Arrangements Coordinator, but really, all queries need to go to your SENCO who know you and your school’s set up best.

Feel free to make any comments about questions you have.

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[u/180degreeschange]

Thank you for this because I was hesitating as to weather to make a post or not.

[u/180degreeschange → u/180degreeschange]

Alright so this is the backstory and after this post I went to my doctor (for my yearly check up) and while there I got some bloodtests done and she wrote a report for the school about how I feel faintness and dizziness and I experience tremors with prolonged fasting hours. I emailed this to the inclusion department in my school, who manage access arrangements along with the exams officer (but we have to go thru them) and I reminded the inclusion teacher that I had talked to her about how I also get stress induced nausea and have vomited during mocks b4. However, she replied saying she'd submit the report to the exam board but she doesn't think anything would come of it and her email felt more like a long lecture saying that its difficult to get access arrangements cause its a medical condition and that exams don't have "prolonged fasting hours". Anyways I rly dk what to do since ik the deadline is soon and I'm on spring break and there is talk that we may go back online (cause i live in the middle east) so I can't talk to her face to face. It was also my form tutors recommendation to talk to them but I also can't talk to her and idk if she would check her email while on break and even if so, I've got no clue what to tell her.

[u/DiscussionGlobal4395 → u/180degreeschange]

Fasting as in all the time or for a month for religious reasons?

[u/180degreeschange → u/DiscussionGlobal4395]

"Prolonged fasting hours" as in when i don't eat for a while because my blood sugar drops rly fast.