Student Handbook 2024/25 (Cert IP / Cert Trade Mark Law and Practice AND MSc Management of IP)

10.5. Examination Access Arrangements

Students with disabilities, specific learning differences like dyslexia or short-term conditions (e.g. broken limbs, pregnancy) can apply to the Disability and Dyslexia Service for Examination Access Arrangements (EAA's).

The role of the Disability and Dyslexia Service (DDS) is to agree on appropriate arrangements with the student. This is part of QMULs legal responsibility to offer its disabled students ‘reasonable adjustments’, as outlined in the Equality Act (2010).

All applications for examination access arrangements must be accompanied by medical evidence in the case of a disability or a diagnostic report in the case of a specific learning difference, such as dyslexia. This evidence must be in English and, in the case of medical evidence, should be dated no more than two years prior to the date of the student's application for examination access arrangements. In the case of a specific learning difference, the diagnostic report should be dated after the student’s sixteenth birthday.

To apply for exam access arrangements, students should complete the application form (available via MySIS) by the deadline stated on the EAA website. This deadline is the latest date by which the DDS can guarantee that exam access arrangements will be implemented for the end-of-teaching period or year-end examinations.

Applications can be submitted after this date, but there is a possibility that the arrangements will not be in place until the following academic year.

Please visit the website for the deadline to apply for Examination Access Arrangements.