Reasonable Adjustment Form

RASC Request Form

Reasonable Adjustment and Special Consideration (RASC) Request Form

Use this form to request:

A reasonable adjustment for an exam or assessment
Special consideration where illness, injury or unexpected circumstances affected you around the time of an exam or assessment

This form is for exam and assessment arrangements. It is separate from any access, support or reasonable adjustment information you may have provided on your course application or enrolment form.

Information provided during application or enrolment is used to support teaching, learning, communication and participation during the course. It does not automatically create an approved reasonable adjustment for an exam or assessment.

Reasonable adjustments for exams and assessments must be requested before the assessment takes place. Requests made after an assessment has taken place will not normally be applied retrospectively and will not normally be accepted as grounds for appeal.

For Signature qualifications, reasonable adjustment requests for exams and assessments may need to be approved by Signature before they can be applied. This includes internal assessments where Signature rules require approval. BSL First may need to share relevant information and supporting evidence with Signature or another awarding organisation as part of this process.

Special consideration may be considered where you experienced illness, injury or unexpected circumstances around the time of an assessment. Special consideration does not automatically entitle you to a pass, refund, free resit, extension, deferral or change of result.

BSL First will contact you with an update once your request has been reviewed. Where approval from Signature or another awarding organisation is required, this may take several weeks. Please check your junk/spam folder.

For enquiries about exams, reasonable adjustments or special consideration, contact: [email protected]

Section 1: Learner details

First Name

Last Name

Phone number

Course enrolled on

Teacher name

Signature candidate ID number (if known)

Section 2: Type of request

What are you requesting?

Reasonable adjustment for an exam or assessment

Special consideration

Both reasonable adjustment and special consideration

I am not sure

Section 3: Assessment details

Some description about this section

Which assessment is affected?

Has the assessment already taken place?

Yes

I am not sure

Important:
Reasonable adjustments cannot normally be applied retrospectively after an assessment has taken place. BSL First will review the information you provide, but a late reasonable adjustment request will not normally be accepted as grounds for appeal unless BSL First accepts that exceptional circumstances prevented you from making the request before the assessment.

Please check before submitting:
If the assessment has already taken place, reasonable adjustments cannot normally be applied retrospectively. Please give as much detail as possible so BSL First can decide which policy or process applies.

Section 5: Special consideration request

Some description about this section

What happened?

When did it happen?

How did this affect your assessment?

Did you attend or attempt the assessment?

Yes

Section 6: Supporting Evidence

Evidence may include a medical letter, diagnostic report, educational psychologist report, specialist teacher report, disability evidence, access needs evidence, hospital or appointment letter, or other professional evidence.

For exam reasonable adjustments, Signature or another awarding organisation may require medical, diagnostic or professional evidence before the adjustment can be approved.

Upload Supporting Evidence

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If you cannot provide evidence, please explain why.

Section 7: Consent and declaration

Please tick to confirm:

I confirm that the information I have provided is accurate to the best of my knowledge.

I understand that submitting this form does not guarantee that my request will be approved.

I understand that reasonable adjustments for exams and assessments must normally be requested before the assessment takes place.

I understand that reasonable adjustment requests made after an assessment has taken place will not normally be applied retrospectively or accepted as grounds for appeal.

I understand that BSL First may need to share relevant information and supporting evidence with Signature or another awarding organisation to process my request.

I understand that BSL First will process my personal data, including any sensitive or special category data, in line with its Data Protection Policy and Privacy Notice.