Examples where a candidate/candidates may be eligible for special consideration include: • A candidate arrives for the examination and is clearly unwell, extremely distressed and/or may have sustained an injury that requires emergency access arrangements to be put in place: • the candidate is kept under centre supervision (from 30 minutes after the published starting time for that examination until they begin it) while appropriate arrangements are put in place for the candidate to take the examination (ICE 6.9 ) • special consideration is applied if this indisposition has had, or is reasonably likely to have had, a material effect on the candidate’s ability to demonstrate his or her normal level of attainment in the examination (SC 1) • Application for an allowance on the last paper taken in a day when a candidate has been entered for three or more examinations timetabled for the same day and the total duration of those papers is more than 6 hours (GCE and Level 3 exams) or more than 5 hours 30 minutes (GCSE, Level 1 and Level 2 exams) including any approved extra time but not any time taken for supervised rest breaks, special consideration for an allowance on the last paper taken will be applied for (SC 3.3)
• Serious disturbance during the examination (SC 2.1)
Candidates will not be eligible for special consideration if preparation for, or performance in the examination is affected by a minor disturbance in the examination room caused by another candidate, such as momentary bad behaviour, a mobile phone ringing, or a momentary fire alarm (SC 2.3) (In accordance with SC 1: A centre must not submit applications for special consideration for trivial cases. Examples of trivial cases which would not warrant special consideration include, but are not limited to: a bird tweeting outside the examination room; a lorry reversing; a toilet being flushed; doors in a corridor adjacent to the examination room opening and closing; very short, momentary noise from, for example, aeroplanes, helicopters, lawn mowers)
Candidates who are absent from a timetabled component/unit for acceptable reasons
If a candidate is absent for acceptable reasons, and SCL Education & Training is prepared to support an application for special consideration, special
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