Special Consideration
If you are experiencing difficulties in completing assessment tasks, such as assignments or attending examinations, due to unforeseen circumstances, you may be eligible for Special Consideration.It’s important that you contact your lecturer or tutor and tell them about your difficulties before you apply.
Music Students - Performance Exams only (technical or recital)
Special Consideration applications, for performance units offered by the School of Music – Conservatorium, need to be lodged with Melissa Peeters, Administrative Officer – Student Liaison, Room 105, Performing Arts Complex (Building 68), Clayton campus. Special consideration for other music units are to be completed and submitted as follows.
Please note, these guidelines should be read in conjunction with the University Special Consideration policy and procedures.
Eligibility
To be eligible for Special Consideration you must be experiencing serious illness or other serious circumstances such as:- acute illness – hospital admission, serious injury, severe asthma, severe anxiety or depression. This does not include minor illness such as a mild cold.
- loss or bereavement – death of a close family member, family relationship breakdown.
- hardship/trauma – victim of crime, sudden loss of income or employment, severe disruption to domestic arrangements.
- those students demonstrating relevant obligations to military or jury service or service to emergency services such as the Country Fire Authority, and
- elite athletes registered with Monash Sport's athlete support program participating in a key event
- Arts students enrolled in the winter Prato program requiring deferred examinations
Outcomes
Special Consideration cannot result in any adjustments to your marks.Special Consideration can provide for:
- an extension or revised submission date for an assessment task
- supplementary or additional assessment
- revised date for a class test
- deferred examination
How to Apply
Different procedures apply to assessment tasks due during semester and tasks due at the end of semester.In-semester assessment tasks
For assessment tasks during semester you must use the In-semester special consideration application form (word) (PDF).Your application needs to go to the faculty responsible for teaching the relevant unit who will decide the outcome of your application. Please refer to faculty-specific procedures for applications at other faculties.
If the relevant unit is taught by the Arts Faculty, the Faculty will decide if you are eligible for Special Consideration and contact the unit coordinator to make alternative arrangements. You will be notified about what alternative arrangements have been made for you by email.
If your application is rejected you will be notified by email.
NOTE THAT YOUR APPLICATION SHOULD BE MADE NO LATER THAN TWO UNIVERSITY WORKING DAYS AFTER THE DUE DATE OF THE AFFECTED ASSESSMENT TASK
End of semester assessment tasks
For end of semester assessment tasks, such as an examination or a final assignment you must use the End-of-semester exam/assessment special consideration application form (word) (PDF).Decisions about Special Consideration for end of semester assessment are made by the faculty responsible for managing your course. Arts students should submit all applications for Special Consideration to the Arts Faculty Office on their home campus.
Again, the Arts Faculty will decide if you are eligible for Special Consideration and contact the unit coordinator to make alternative arrangements. You will be notified about what alternative arrangements have been made for you by email.
If your application is rejected you will be notified by email.
PLEASE NOTE: IF YOU HAVE ALREADY COMPLETED YOUR END OF SEMESTER EXAMINATION YOU WILL NOT BE ELIGIBLE FOR SPECIAL CONSIDERATION.
YOUR APPLICATION FOR SPECIAL CONSIDERATION FOR AN EXAMINATION SHOULD BE MADE NO LATER THAN TWO UNIVERSITY WORKING DAYS AFTER YOUR LAST SCHEDULED EXAMINATION FOR THE SEMESTER.
Submission
Your application must include documentary evidence such as:- medical certificate, letter from a medical professional
- letter from a social worker, lawyer, psychologist
- death notice or certificate
- statutory declarations from students or relevant people
- notification from the Defence Reservist’s Military Unit
- notification from the Juries Commissioner’s Office
- notification from emergency service organisations such as the Country Fire Authority
- notification from Monash Sport’s elite athlete support program
In-semester assessment task applications (for Arts units) — to the Arts Faculty office on the campus you are enrolled. For units other than Arts, please refer to the faculty-specific procedures fro submission of applications.
End of semester assessment task applications — to the Faculty office on your home campus, which manages the course you are enrolled.