La Trobe University
A real-time consult with a registered Australian doctor. If the doctor signs off, you receive the medical certificate La Trobe asks you to upload.
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A special consideration form is not guaranteed.
Start my La Trobe consultLa Trobe's rules don't mention telehealth. A certificate is judged on what it states and who issued it.
Applications go through La Trobe online special consideration form.
Before the assessment due date. See a doctor the day you are unwell, not after the deadline.
La Trobe's special consideration page does not address consultation modality. It sets requirements on the evidence itself: official, verifiable, signed, dated, and showing how your circumstances affected your ability to complete the task.
That the circumstances relate to an allowable reason for special consideration. How your circumstances affected your ability to complete the assessment task.
La Trobe asks for the application before the assessment due date. A later application has to be supported by evidence of exceptional circumstances that stopped you applying in time. Evidence must be official and verifiable. A note you write yourself, or a screenshot without practice details, will not meet the standard.
Deadlines, portals and evidence rules at La Trobe, from its published policy.
Start my La Trobe consultLa Trobe's published policy does not address modality. It requires evidence that is official, verifiable, signed and dated, and that shows how the circumstances affected your ability to complete the task. A certificate meeting those requirements is what the page asks for, whatever the consultation format.
You should submit your application before the assessment due date. Late applications are only considered where you can show exceptional circumstances that prevented a timely submission, so apply as soon as you know the assessment is affected.
Through the online special consideration form on the current students site. There is no practitioner form to have filled in. You attach your own supporting evidence to the application.
Official, verifiable evidence that relates to an allowable reason, shows how your circumstances affected the assessment, and includes the date the circumstances occurred and the period of impact. Documents must be signed, dated, on letterhead where applicable, and in English or professionally translated.
La Trobe publishes processing times separately from the application page. The outcome is normally communicated by the subject coordinator after the application is assessed, so check the processing times page rather than assuming a same-week decision.
La Trobe's process, in the order it happens.
A real-time special consideration consult. Tell the doctor the exam or due date; the certificate covers those dates.
Before the assessment due date.
The certificate after a real-time doctor call.
La Trobe may contact the practice to confirm the consultation. The link on each document answers that.
What the certificate must state, and what gets it refused.
That the circumstances relate to an allowable reason for special consideration. How your circumstances affected your ability to complete the assessment task. The date the circumstances occurred and the period of impact. The practitioner's signature, practice details and letterhead or stamp, with the certificate dated.
La Trobe asks for the application before the assessment due date. A later application has to be supported by evidence of exceptional circumstances that stopped you applying in time. Evidence must be official and verifiable. A note you write yourself, or a screenshot without practice details, will not meet the standard. Documents must be in English, or professionally translated, and carry a signature and date. A certificate that confirms you attended a consultation but says nothing about impact does not meet the second requirement.
Three outcomes, one application, the same evidence.
This is La Trobe's single process for circumstances outside your control that affected an assessment. It is lodged through the online form and assessed on the evidence you attach.
Where you need more time to submit, an extension is the outcome the application most often produces. Because La Trobe wants applications before the due date, an extension request is the natural route for an illness that is slowing you down rather than one that stopped you entirely.
If illness kept you from an exam or timed assessment, the application can result in a deferred or rescheduled sitting. Your evidence needs to show the date the circumstances occurred and that the period of impact covers the assessment date.
Sorted within the day. A real-time consult with a registered doctor, then the certificate La Trobe asks you to upload.
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The same consult, with each university's own rules and deadline.
