hard work being a mum

pretzelnut

She might just turn round and use all this to her advantage.
She might come to the conclusion of sod you and knuckle down and do her damn best to do as well as she can.
Purely so she can turn round and stick 2 fingers up at him.
Thats what i did, everytime something knocked me back it just made me more determined and a lot stronger.

never_enough

If she's really stressed she should talk to her GP & uni asap, it's easier to have discussed it before the exams. They may think a relationship breakdown is not a good enough reason for mitigating circumstances, but her previous good results will help them look more favourably on her.

VeganClaire lays out the procedure straightforwardly in her post.

I had to go through a mitigating circumstances panel, well my paperwork did, but I didn't need to be there. I was allowed to resit all my exams a year later without the 40% cap. I didn't feel comfortable talking to my personal tutor (a grumpy elderly male academic) so spoke to someone else who set the wheels in motion.

ameliarate

Just needed to "vent again".

Daughter is coping really well, considering, but o boy does she seem to want to take it out on me. She is not being rude or shouting at me as such but everything I say is wrong! (actually when I think about it everything I said was wrong before all this happened :rolleyes:)

She only has one exam left to go and will be home at the weekend; I suspect she will "break down" then, because she can, though perhaps not because she is very sensible and is arranging to do things during the summer break, which she has wanted to do for a long time.

I wish I knew what to say to her. I guess there is no shortcut here and she just has to take it day by day - and I will have to take the flak, but it is tearing me up listening to her when she starts crying.