Sick for an Exam? Miss an exam?
By animestan
@animestan (321)
Canada
June 20, 2009 6:34am CST
Well recently, I went to the doctors and found out I had a throat infection and a light fever...the day before an exam. My mom called the school (high school) about what I can do if I miss the exam due to an illness but I have a doctor's note. The reply was "Exam will be counted as a zero, but if you have a doctors note, give it to the vice principle and she will decide how the evaluation will work out"
Personally I didn't think this was fair. The only reason they don't want me writing the exam a day or two later is only because they fear that I have asked my friends about the content of the exam therefore jeopordizing the integrity of the exam. But how the hell would this be possible if I was actually sick? My head was spinning (still is) I was coughing and I was sleeping more than a baby.
In the end, I went to the exam (regardless of my condition cause I felt a tad bit better that day after the prescribed medication) and completed it.
Does your school have any polocies about missing exams due to various reasons?
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3 responses
@vignesh_deadly (81)
• India
6 Jul 09
during my 12 Th days i affected my fever i didn't even attended my quarterly and half yearly exams... if we provide doctors certificate we can take as medical leave i was affected by sick during the times of exams... but i have scored fair marks in my board exams...
@animestan (321)
• Canada
6 Jul 09
ahh thats good that you have a backdrop. Its just that even with a doctors note, they wont give me the exam and what they do is up to them. So I dont think it would have been fair.
@oyenkai (4394)
• Philippines
25 Jun 09
How are you feeling now? Are you feeling better? I hope you are well now so you wouldn't have to think about missing other exams.
I understand the point of view the teacher and it's good that you somewhat understood it too: regarding the possibility that a classmate would leak the answers to the exam to you. I guess the teacher takes into consideration the innovation of students, that they may call their friends to get better grades and such.
Of course such thoughts are insulting to people who tell the truth, like you. However, there ARE students who would abuse such "loop holes". But there could have been a different solution: the teacher should have simply wrote a somewhat different exam for you so that he wouldn't have to worry about cheating :)
Thanks for the response on my discussion :)
@animestan (321)
• Canada
26 Jun 09
Thank you, I feel much better now. I do understand their viewpoints too. But once, I heard of the story where there was a guy in university and he was in the hospital and was unable to do an exam. Even the professor came to see him in the hospital, but once he was well, the professor refused to let him do the exam.
@MsAmazinggggg (18)
• United States
24 Jun 09
i am currently in college and it all depends on your professors. schools normally do have policies but this past year, fall semester, i got really sick for about 2-3 weeks and i was in the hospital for one week. it was during midterm week and i had only taken one exam [which i failed because my professor wasn't going to let me do a make-up] before i had to be sent to the hospital because how sick i was, and because of severity of the situation some of my professors either let me make-up my exam or some counted it as a zero but it would not affect my final grade. The test I did fail was not a big deal because I already had a high grade in that class.
I do believe you're school was being very unfair about the situation because you did have the doctors note and all of that. Sadly, they do that because there are people who try to cheat the system.
