Illness in connection with exams

If you are ill and cannot attend the exam:

• You must submit an application for withdrawal as soon as you know that you cannot attend the exam
• Once the exam period has started, you must document why you cannot attend the exam
• Therefore, you should immediately see a doctor and obtain a doctor's certificate. This also applies to symptoms from known chronic illnesses
• You must send the documentation along with your application for exam withdrawal
• If you do not have the documentation when you apply, you can send it later. You do not need to create a new application, just send the documentation to the Board of Studies email, which you can find under 'Contact and Study Service' > 'Board of studies and directors of studies' in the left menu.
• If you are granted an exemption, it means that you have not used an exam attempt.

Note: The Board of Studies gives less weight to your doctor's certificate if the doctor did not see you while you were ill.

The Board of Studies has changed its practice.

This means that you can apply for withdrawal even if you apply after the exam has started.

You should leave the exam if you feel too ill to complete it.

• Contact the exam supervisor or examiner and say that you are leaving the exam because you feel ill.
• Contact your doctor on the same day or as soon as possible after the exam day and get a doctor's certificate. This also applies to symptoms from known chronic illnesses.
• You must register yourself for the next exam.
• To obtain an exemption, you must be able to document that you were ill during the exam and could not complete it.

Note: The Board of Studies gives less weight to your doctors certificate if the doctor did not see you while you were ill.

In this situation, we assume that you were ready to take the exam.

Therefore, it is important that there is a close temporal connection between the exam day and the documentation:
• You must therefore immediately seek medical attention and obtain a doctor's certificate. This also applies to symptoms from known, chronic illnesses.
• You must submit an application for an additional exam attempt immediately after completing the exam. You can submit the documentation afterward.
• If you still have attempts remaining, the study board cannot process your application until you have used all your attempts. Therefore, you should save the documentation for later.

The documentation must show:
• When you contacted your doctor
• How your illness affected you during the exam
• Whether the illness affected you to the extent that you could not leave or cancel the exam

It is important that you read the guidelines on what doctor's certificate must contain. You can find the guidelines in the menu to the left under 'Rules and guidelines' > 'Exemptions' > 'Doctor's certificates'.

Illness in your immediate family may affect you so much that you cannot take the exam.

• You must submit an application for deregistration as soon as you know that you cannot take the exam.
• You do not need to send a doctor's certificate documenting illness in your immediate family.
• Instead, you must document, e.g. by means of a doctor's certificate, how your study ability is affected and, if so, in what period.

 

If there is a death in your immediate family, it may mean that you are so affected that you cannot take the exam.

• You must submit an application as soon as you know that you cannot take the exam.
• You must document the death by means of a death certificate.
• If the death occurred more than one month before the exam is held, you should not send a death certificate, but instead a doctor's certificate describing how your study ability is affected.

By immediate family we mean parents, children, siblings, spouse/partner and grandparents.