The Examination Access and Mitigation Committee (EAMC) is a committee of the General Board which meets monthly throughout the year to consider applications for examination allowances and related matters. There is also a large volume of student casework undertaken under delegated authority much of which involves the expert opinion of its Medical Advisers.
The EAMC’s overarching aims:
- To endeavour to ensure parity of treatment between applicants to the EAMC who share similar circumstances, whilst recognising that each case is individual.
- To be mindful of the interests of students taking the same examination but who are not applicants to the committee.
- To ensure that, particularly in relation to disregarding terms and repeating a period of study, an applicant is neither advantaged nor disadvantaged in comparison with other students
In addition to the EAMC there may be further groups who become involved in reasonable adjustments for some students. Some of these groups include:
- The Mitigating Circumstances Team is responsible for managing reasonable adjustment applications and implementing the decisions and outcomes.
- Colleges have direct contact with their students and are responsible for making the applications on their behalf. Colleges will also be involved in some operational aspects of implementing reasonable adjustments for their students.
- The Postgraduate Committee considers requests for reasonable adjustments for Postgraduate students on research programmes.
- The Counselling Service may offer support to students throughout the year and works alongside the Accessibility and Disability Resource Centre (ADRC) to develop self-help provision and guides.
- The ADRC work with students to consider and discuss adjustments and may produce a Student Support Document (SSD). The SSD is the basis on which many applications for reasonable adjustments are made – the trends and outcomes of which are monitored by the EAMC.
- The General Board’s Education Committee (GBEC) may also become involved in adjustments to examinations, and they receive a report from the EAMC.
Applications
Applications for Examination Allowances are considered on a case-by-case basis from requests from Colleges on behalf of their students who are on courses with a taught element, this includes the following courses: the Foundation Year, all Undergraduates, EMBA, LLM, MAcc, MASt, MBA, MCL, MEng, MFin, MMath, MMus, MSci and PGCE. Applications are also considered for certain Postgraduate degrees which includes the MPhil by Advanced Study, MRes, MEd or MSt degrees, the Diploma in Economics, the Postgraduate Diplomas in Legal Studies and in International Law, or the Certificate of Postgraduate Study (CPGS).
Where another body (such as Faculty, Department, or Student Union) presents a case for a student, the EAMC will direct the student to their College. Candidates should contact their College Tutorial Office if they are not registered for one of the above courses and need information on examination allowances.
The purpose of the EAMC is to consider the cases of students relating to applications for:
- examination access arrangements (including alternative forms of assessment)
- coursework extensions of more than seven days
- examination allowances (for students unable to undertake all or part of an examination, or who have failed all or part of an examination, due to illness or other extenuating circumstances);
- consideration of non-standard combinations of papers;
- disregarding terms (for students forced to be away from Cambridge for medical or other extenuating circumstances).
Outcomes are always based on the evidence provided.
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The administrators supporting the Committee work as quickly as possible to ensure that accurate and clear information is included in the outcome letters. It is expected that responses will be sent to the College, or direct to the student (in cases of direct application) between 5-10 working days after the meeting. Please do not chase for outcomes until 10 working days have passed.
Please be advised that staff are operating in a hybrid working model, working both remotely and in the Student Services Centre (SSC). Please continue to submit applications to the Examination Access and Mitigation Committee (EAMC) for consideration and if you have any queries, please email eamc@admin.cam.ac.uk.
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Mitigation
Information for students on the University's mitigation measures can be found online here.
We are not able to provide advice to students over the phone. Please send your query to the mitigation team by emailing either eamc@admin.cam.ac.uk (for allowances) or exam.arrangements@admin.cam.ac.uk for reasonable adjustment queries.
Fee Remission
From 1st September 2023, the fee remission process will be managed by the Fee Remission Panel
For queries about or how to apply for fee remission, please contact the Secretary of the Fee Remission Panel at feestatusandpolicy@admin.cam.ac.uk with any questions. Fee remission guidance, the application form and meeting dates for 2023-24 is available here: https://www.student-registry.admin.cam.ac.uk/student-change-circumstances/fee-remission .