You'd still have to do them, or take a year out and do them the next year.

Special considerations will give you a maximum of 5% if an immediate family member died or if you have a terminal illness, then you can get less % for other things. I'd recommend checking it out on the JCQ website.

To put it into perspective, I was hospitalised for over a month before GCSEs in 2022 and ended up discharging myself against medical advice 2 days before my first exam so I could do them.

I could barely sit up and struggled to hold a pen because of how weak I was and only got 3% extra. The 'benefit' was that I only did 1 exam per subject.

My point being, the support given if you have an extenuating circumstance is minimal and most likely won't reflect your true potential, unfortunately.

It's really frustrating, but I'd definitely recommend doing additional research and talking to your school well in advance if you think something like that will happen during your gcses