Extending a corrections deadline

If extenuating circumstances affect post-examination amendments, discuss an RD18 application with your DoS before your deadline. This is not an RD10 registration-extension application.

Apply

1. Explain the impact to your DoS and obtain their support.
2. Submit a written application on RD18 to the School RDC.
3. Include the reason and appropriate evidence/support. Personal or medical detail can be brief if the DoS confirms knowledge of the circumstances and need.
4. The School considers the case in consultation with the Exam Panel Chair.
5. The Operations Team must be informed and sends you formal confirmation.

The maximum additional time at this stage is six months. If serious circumstances continue and a further extension is needed, the application goes to the Research Degrees Examination Board, otherwise following the same procedure.

Use the deadline in your formal outcome/extension letter. If an amended thesis is late without approved extra time, it is not automatically sent for examination: the Board considers the case and requires an explanation of both the delay and why an earlier extension application was not possible, plus a DoS statement.

Sources: Framework §§5.5, 6.5, pp. 59, 67–68; D6.9. Read the source.

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