Exams and Assessments

You will receive an email with an invitation to login to the Student Self-Service to complete your examination entry, and you must do so before the window closes.

If you do not complete the entry by the deadline, you will have to pay a Late Entry Fee via the University's Online Shop before you will be able to submit your entry.  

You can change your option choices via the Student Self-Service while the Examination Entry window is open.  

If you want to change your option after the Entry Window has closed, you will need to complete a Change of Options Form (available from the Academic Office), and pay a Change of Options Fee via the University's Online Shop.  

In this instance please contact the Academic Office who will assist you with making the request to ARO. 

The Exams Schools usually publishes the official timetables on the University Website at least five weeks before the date of the first exam.  

Your individual timetable can also be found on the Student Self-Service.

Your candidate number can be found on the Student Self-Service on the Examinations and Assessments page, or at the top of your individual exams timetable that you will receive nearer the time. 

If, owing to a medical or other reason, you think you will be unable to meet a submission deadline for a piece of coursework, please contact the Academic Office as soon as possible and read through the University's guidance on Problems completing your assessment, in particular the Student Guidance document. 

You can directly request an application to the Proctors to extend your deadline by self-certifying. However, there are limits on applications, you can only: 

• self-certify once per submission. 
• make two applications using self-certification per academic year. An application may include more than one submission if it is due in the same working week. 
• apply up to 2 weeks in advance and up to 24 hours after the deadline. 

Further extensions and all other extension applications must be applied for via the Academic Office, and you will need evidence to support your application. 

The College can apply for an extension up to 4 weeks before and up to 14 days after a deadline. 

If you are submitting responses to an examination using Inspera, you should be supplied with technical time to complete and upload any responses. 

If you find you experience technical difficulties during the examination and are unable to upload your response before the end of the exam, you will need to raise a ticket with the Online Exams Help Desk as soon as possible. The team will then be in touch as soon as your email reaches them in their queue.  

If you are having difficulties submitting the ticket, you can call them on +44(0) 1865 612121. Though they’d rather you try submitting the ticket before calling. 

It is your responsibility to ensure you uploaded the correct responses to an examination.  

If you find a substantive error in your answers, you can submit a replacement within 30 minutes of the end of your exam duration by completing a ticket with the Online Exams Help Desk and attaching the correct files to the form. 

There is not mechanism for replacing an incorrect or incomplete file after 30 minutes. The work uploaded will be marked. 

If you find that your performance has been impacted during an assessment, you can submit a Mitigating Circumstances notice to Examiners (MCE).  

You should be able to submit this yourself via the Student Self-Service. It’s best if you do this as soon as possible after your last exam. Please also notify the Academic Office if you plan to submit an MCE. 

Please also read the University's Guidance on Problems completing your assessment (in particular, the guidance for students on the Consideration of mitigating circumstances by examiners may be helpful when completing the MCE).  

If you think you will miss an examination due to illness, you must contact the Academic Office immediately on the day of the examination so they can let the Exam Schools know you will not be attending. 

Or if you feel the need to withdraw from all your examinations, you must contact your tutors and the Academic Office to discuss the matter.

The Academic Office will then need to submit an application to the Proctors for your non-appearance or withdrawal from the examinations to be formally excused.  

You will need to provide evidence as to why you cannot attend. If you are ill, you should arrange an appointment with the GP as soon as possible (preferably on the same day) to obtain a medical certificate. 

You cannot be excused from an exam if you have attended any part of the exam or if you have accessed an open book exam paper. If you become unwell during an exam you should submit a mitigating circumstances notice to the examiners. 

If you require alternative examination arrangements due to a specific learning difficulty or disability, an application for Alternative Examination Arrangements can be made. Examples of individual arrangements can include: extra time to sit papers for students with dyslexia; use of a word-processor in exams for injuries to the writing hand/specific learning difficulties; taking exams earlier or later than timetabled to allow students to observe religious festivals. 

Please contact the Disability & Grants Officer in the Academic Office in the first instance. Students are encouraged to talk to their tutors and come to the Academic Office to discuss options as soon as possible in Michaelmas Term.