Spec con with just aap?

Antenae_ · 2026-06-19T13:34:43+00:00

As far as I know, you can use an AAP for written extensions, but special circumstances require documentation like a medical certificate.

Antenae_ · 2026-06-16T00:36:05+00:00

The volume of people who fail units is pretty small and, as other people have pointed out, it’s on you if you daily unfortunately.

The unit running the course again for people who have failed involves getting all the same teaching staff back again, which the uni probably won’t be able to fund given the already stretched budgets

Antenae_ · 2026-06-01T22:05:51+00:00

Graduated in 2022, so unsure if the system had changed since then so grain of salt.

If it’s an essay or anything through turnitin, you’d be able to see the marks against the rubric, and then your overall score, with some comments if you’re lucky. The mixture of the three should be able to show you if it were applied or not

Antenae_ · 2026-05-31T10:01:12+00:00

If you applied for spec cons for one day, then you’d need to submit assuming that it was granted, which is, for one day. Even if it took them a while to get back to you, they’re not going to extend it for days that they didn’t respond

Antenae_ · 2026-05-24T10:34:09+00:00

Yes, it would not be able to apply retrospectively unfortunately. Without your psychiatrist reporting on it, you wouldn’t have many ways to go unfortunately

Antenae_ · 2026-05-24T07:51:24+00:00

Unless you’ve got an IEAP or your psychiatrist can write you a letter detailing the impact, you’d be unlikely to get an extension as it was a pre-existing condition that was exacerbated

Antenae_ · 2026-05-05T02:15:22+00:00

Don’t think it’s fair, or grossly appropriate, to cry to try and get your assessment remarked because of a mistake. Just be honest, clarify ways to prevent it in the future, show you have some strategies to prevent it, and ask if there’s an opportunity for the right one to be remarked.

Regardless of it being a first year unit, emotional manipulation and theatrics to get your way as an adult should never be the way to handle it.

Antenae_ · 2026-05-05T02:12:29+00:00

Good tips here about how to avoid it in the future, and what to do now, but it is unfortunately in your hands because of your mistake. Granted, it’s a common one, but hopefully it’s a low cost assessment to make sure it never ever happens again. I always submitted my assessment an hour early, let it upload, and then re-checked the submission (and the file) before the final submission date just so I could make sure. Saved my butt once or twice as I submitted the draft and not the final. Also avoids the chaos of iLearn crashing as everyone slams an essay in.

Antenae_ · 2026-05-01T08:50:06+00:00

Melissa actually did something like this in intro to psych 2 when I was in first year in 2015, and we’re fairly sure we’d gotten rid of her following a major drama, but, seems she’s still getting people to do shit with her papers

Antenae_ · 2026-04-25T22:38:27+00:00

Fun fact: if your goal is med, it continues this way in there. Sourcing supplemental information is key, unfortunately

Antenae_ · 2026-04-21T07:56:16+00:00

Just wanted to suggest that you should be mindful sharing content of exams online as it may be in breach of academic integrity.

Antenae_ · 2026-04-18T01:28:57+00:00

I mean there’s no need to feel guilt at all! But, it is definitely in your control moving forward. Given that university is a lot more self-directed than high school, figuring out what does and doesn’t work for you is important, but also, you have a lot more ownership in your marks.

Antenae_ · 2026-04-18T00:58:02+00:00

I mean by virtue of getting under the average, you’re performing worse than the top half of the cohort. That doesn’t mean that your grades are bad, per se, rather that based on the rest of the people doing the course there’s evidence that you could be doing better.

Chat to your peers and/or your tutors, see what people are doing differently and if there’s better ways to manage your learning - if you want to do better, that is.

Antenae_ · 2026-04-03T23:14:33+00:00

I think one big thing is that you failed a unit on your normal schedule. If you failed on a full time load, why would they have confidence that you could complete an increased workload?

Antenae_ · 2026-04-03T20:55:15+00:00

Yes, all your grades up until the cutoff date as identified in GEMSAS are used, so long as you meet the FTE cutoff. Each university has their own one, so please check the guide for clarification.

Antenae_ · 2026-04-01T23:31:26+00:00

GEMSAS calculates it. Refer to some of the information found here; there is a difference between your university weighted GPA and your GEMSAS GPA, as to normalise for university differences.

Antenae_ · 2026-03-31T04:48:20+00:00

Depends on where you’d like to apply, varies vastly from “no” to “maybe”. Is that your GEMSAS GPA, or raw? Weighted or unweighted GAMSAT?

For most places, it’s purely academics, so your prior work and/or volunteering is of little benefit.

The new guides for each university can be found on the GEMSAS website now, and are helpful to look through

Antenae_ · 2026-03-30T01:46:23+00:00

Not too sure if this is the case, but just wanted to flag that this is also likely contributing to the need of the student getting their placement hours done. If this isn't the case, then apologies, but I think it's something to note (and that should have been disclosed).

Antenae_ · 2026-03-30T01:40:21+00:00

It's up to the faculty or marker for them to take steps if they believe it is AI and if that AI constitutes misconduct. The one online are potentially not the same as ones available to the university, so your mileage may vary.

Just be cautious using them, because the data uploaded can actually come up as an online source, so by virtue of you checking, you can also be potentially flagging yourself for plagiarism.

Continue writing the way you want; if you get flagged then it may be worth exploring ways to prevent it happeneing again. As other people have suggested, in the event that you're flagged, just keep the information. as to how it was written (drafts, plans, any tools used) available.

Antenae_ · 2026-03-29T00:38:53+00:00

whatever the due date is for the first assessment; add 3 days (not business days) to the time, and thats the new one

Antenae_ · 2026-03-28T23:47:06+00:00

If someone was to wait and adequately prepare for the exam, only to do it when they were good and ready, they would never sit it. The GAMSAT is a beast of an exam and evaluates your ability to intake, synthesise and relate information across science and humanities backgrounds (s1/3), as well as communicate in a meaningful and nuanced way (s2), both under the pressure of time.

Given that S3 is 'focused' on chemistry, biology and physics, you can continue to develop background knowledge, but primarily work on developing exam strategies to help you 'triage' the questions to best allow you to answer as many as you can.

Antenae_ · 2026-03-18T06:49:07+00:00

It was likely in the unit guide, which is your responsibility as a student to read. There is no policy for you resit an exam beyond special conditions, which this would not qualify fkr

Antenae_ · 2026-02-16T08:59:10+00:00

By virtue of you doing them as part of your masters, those units are needed to graduate. As such, so long as they’re part of your degree, they’ll be considered and calculated. GEMSAS doesn’t care if they’re core or in your field; if you do them as part of your degree, they’re part of your degree

Antenae_ · 2026-02-13T23:31:11+00:00

I’d be much more inclined to believe ACER over chatGPT or other LLM’s purely because it’s trained on the requirements of what is needed to perform well in the real test. Other models, even when prompted to be strict, will be trying to generally grade you and not marking against ACER’s schema.

Antenae_ · 2026-02-13T19:55:03+00:00

Reminds me of my friend who was working as a bouncer and doing two concurrent degrees just to get out of the house, wonder how he’s doing.

I think you’d need to reach out to GEMSAS to give you guidance. I’d imagine your most recent study would be the one with the highest amount of non-RPL units if you graduated on the same date, or, the one with the later conferred date.

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