Application forms are available online (pdf: 74KB) as well as in print form from all Student Centres

Procedures
 

1. Applications must be submitted no later than five (5) days after the date the original examination was held.
    
2. An application made on medical grounds must be accompanied by a medical certificate signed by a medical practitioner or registered nurse no later than two (2) business days after the examination and stating that the student was unfit to sit the examination on the relevant day.
   

   Students are required to confirm, by signing the special exam application form, that the medical practitioner is not a near relative or close associate (Examples of near relatives are partner, child, brother, sister, or parent. Examples of close associates are close friends, neighbours and partners or children of colleagues.) (It will remain at the discretion of the treating medical practitioner whether to declare the precise nature of the relevant impairment).
    

3. An application made by a student who is incapacitated during an examination must be accompanied by a medical certificate signed by a medical practitioner or registered nurse within one (1) business day of the examination. A student must inform the examination supervisor of their intention to apply for a special examination and sign a Disregard Performance declaration prior to leaving the examination.
    
4. An application made on non-medical grounds must be accompanied by a signed statement detailing the grounds for the application supported by any corroborating information.
    
5. All applications must be submitted
   • through the Student Centres, or
   • by mail
6. Applications will be date-stamped and forwarded to the Examinations Section, St Lucia campus or the relevant faculty.

Assessing the applications
 

• Applications on medical grounds will be assessed by the Manager, Examinations, provided that a medical certificate supports the application and is dated and submitted in accordance with the above directions.
  
   
• Applications on non-medical grounds will generally be considered for approval by the responsible faculty, provided that a statement, along with any corroborative information (for example, death or funeral notice, documented vehicle accident or breakdown, documented serious personal or family crisis etc), supports the application and is dated and submitted in accordance with the instructions above.
  
   
• Any medical certificate or statement which
  
  
  • does not clearly support an application,
     
  • raises a question on the student's academic progress (particularly where the student's academic record reveals a history of special examinations), or
     
  • relates to more than two separate examinations
  
  will be referred to the relevant faculty.

Application rulings

Application rulings will be notified to you by email to your University student email address.

Special examination timetable

The dates for first and second semester special and supplementary examinations periods are published on my.UQ and mySI-net. If you have been granted a special or supplementary examination, you are expected to be available to sit your examination/s on any day or days of the specified period. Timetables will be published several days prior to the commencement of the supplementary/special examination period and may be accessed through my.UQ and mySI-net.