Is it fair to put someone in an exam with as much as 10 % off before they start?

studentphil

dmg24 wrote: »

No Phil, you are not wrong. But you need to take responsibility for your own life. You still want to blame everybody else for your misfortune.

I did it all right, declared on UCAS and expected them to do something like all the leaflets say and for the place to be disabled friendly, but no all I have got is 3 years of upset and anger and no one knew I was even disabled as UCAS declaration was ignored.

melancholly

studentphil wrote: »

Am I wrong to have wanted to have felt included and part of the university community and happy there.

the only way you can be included is to get involved.

the only way your department will know what your disability is is if you tell them. then the only way to get the help you need is to request it.

the only way you will do better at your degree is if you log off here and take some proactive action.


this is your final year........... how can you only be raising these issues now? if i was in the position of someone on the special circumstances committee, alarm bells would ring.

i would like to be taller and thinner and be a model, i'd also like to have better eye sight and be a pilot, come to think of it, i'd like to be better at tennis and become and international sports star. there are things you can change and things you can't. focus on what you can do rather than getting so hung up on what other people could. right now you can change your attitude and do more work - that will be the best path to take to do as well as you can in your degree.

full-time-mum

Lusignan wrote: »

Good - let's make sure it stays that way. As a result of a 36 hour migraine, I'm taking no prisoners tonight.

Sympathies on the headaches - the multi day ones are a killer aren't they. Do you get them often?

Lusignan

I knew my expectations earlier this evening were too high, and that he was lying when he said this thread was started as a general discussion. This has turned into yet another thread of self-pity, whining, moaning and general patheticness from Phil. Why do any of you bother?

Lusignan

full-time-mum wrote: »

Sympathies on the headaches - the multi day ones are a killer aren't they. Do you get them often?

I used to get a couple a week. I had a hysterectomy a couple of years ago and they've gone down to one a month or fewer, so not too bad really. I worked through yesterday's one although I found it hard to see what I was doing at work, and fortunately I didn't throw up this time, so it could be a lot worse.

dmg24

and expected them to do something

Phil, you have hit the nail on the head! You expected them to do something, but when you realised that they weren't going to, you should have acted!

You need to start looking forward mate. You have had a hard time, so you need to put that behind you and think about what you are going to do to make it better.

Have you considered getting some counselling? It may seem like an extreme suggestion, but I really think it would help you work through some issues? x

studentphil

melancholly wrote: »

the only way you can be included is to get involved.

the only way your department will know what your disability is is if you tell them. then the only way to get the help you need is to request it.

the only way you will do better at your degree is if you log off here and take some proactive action.


this is your final year........... how can you only be raising these issues now? if i was in the position of someone on the special circumstances committee, alarm bells would ring.

i would like to be taller and thinner and be a model, i'd also like to have better eye sight and be a pilot, come to think of it, i'd like to be better at tennis and become and international sports star. there are things you can change and things you can't. focus on what you can do rather than getting so hung up on what other people could. right now you can change your attitude and do more work - that will be the best path to take to do as well as you can in your degree.

I think they owe me at least 5% grade increase for all the pain, destress and upset that they have caused me and that has made my life so horrible.

University has turned me unhappy and it is time they took note of that.

Impet_Limpet

I think I will bow out of this thread, as every suggestion somebody has made you have come back with a negative answer. If it has taken 3 years to still get nowhere with your complaints I think you may be going wrong somewhere and not being proactive enough, even after 3 years of this have you not started a grievenace against your university? have you not contacted the relevant charity for help? Got your GP involved? read up on the Unis disability policy? ask disabled students who are there already what it is really like? if the university is as unhelpful as you suggest shouldn't you be naming and shaming to prevent other people from going through the same thing?

Impet_Limpet

Lusignan wrote: »

Why do any of you bother?

I am new to studentphils threads and got sucked in

Lusignan

studentphil wrote: »

I think they owe me at least 5% grade increase for all the pain, destress and upset that they have caused me and that has made my life so horrible.

University has turned me unhappy and it is time they took note of that.

Oh grow up, you silly boy. What's next? Throwing teddy in the corner? You've got a matter of weeks to mature about 10 years and render yourself employable. Go and sue your parents or something.