What are extenuating circumstances?
During your studies there may be times where you experience situations that:
- have an impact on your ability to attend or complete your assessments at the usual time, and
- are outside of your control or you could not reasonably have predicted.
These are referred to as extenuating circumstances.
If you are affected by extenuating circumstances, we want to support you and can take these circumstances into account by allowing you to, for example:
- submit your assessment slightly later than the published deadline, or
- not submit your assessment at the usual time, but have an opportunity to be assessed at a later date, or
- not attend a time-specific assessment (for example, an examination, a test, a presentation or performance, or field class), but have an opportunity to be assessed at a later date.