I am a second-year LLB student currently considering an academic appeal following significant mitigating circumstances during my examination period.
I was medically unwell before and during my exams and have medical documentation confirming both my condition and that I should have been on bed rest at the time. Despite this, I still sat my examinations due to misunderstandings regarding the school policy, and my performance was significantly affected. In particular, I received two marks in the 40s which are extremely below my usual academic performance that only consisted of 2:1s and 1:1s.
If my academic appeal is successful, I would become a dormant resit student for the year and retake the affected examinations next May, giving me the opportunity to achieve marks that accurately reflect my academic potential.
I am particularly aiming for US and Silver Circle, Magic Circle firms, so my main question is: which option would look better to these firms, keeping my existing results, including two marks in the 40s, and explaining the mitigating circumstances, or taking a dormant year and resitting the affected exams to demonstrate my actual academic potential?
Would becoming a dormant resit student because of formally documented mitigating circumstances significantly damage, or potentially ruin, my chances of securing vacation schemes or training contracts at these firms, even if I subsequently achieve strong results in the resits?
I would really appreciate perspectives on which of these two routes would put me in the stronger position when applying to highly competitive commercial firms.
I was medically unwell before and during my exams and have medical documentation confirming both my condition and that I should have been on bed rest at the time. Despite this, I still sat my examinations due to misunderstandings regarding the school policy, and my performance was significantly affected. In particular, I received two marks in the 40s which are extremely below my usual academic performance that only consisted of 2:1s and 1:1s.
If my academic appeal is successful, I would become a dormant resit student for the year and retake the affected examinations next May, giving me the opportunity to achieve marks that accurately reflect my academic potential.
I am particularly aiming for US and Silver Circle, Magic Circle firms, so my main question is: which option would look better to these firms, keeping my existing results, including two marks in the 40s, and explaining the mitigating circumstances, or taking a dormant year and resitting the affected exams to demonstrate my actual academic potential?
Would becoming a dormant resit student because of formally documented mitigating circumstances significantly damage, or potentially ruin, my chances of securing vacation schemes or training contracts at these firms, even if I subsequently achieve strong results in the resits?
I would really appreciate perspectives on which of these two routes would put me in the stronger position when applying to highly competitive commercial firms.
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