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Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering – request to increase grades from examination period – alternative request to increase sessional average and for courses taken in following term be counted – grade appeal – illness before and during exam period – remedy of assessed grade appealed – Student charged under Code of Behaviour on Academic Matters – Student allowed to attend courses pending resolution of charges and appeal – motion to compel the University to produce information not considered because information not relevant – minority opinion that information was relevant but satisfied that Faculty provided sufficient information – observation that Faculty is ill–advised to allow a student to continue in a program, when contesting a Faculty decision that the student has not met academic standards – Committee troubled by Faculty policy of assessed or inferred examinations – Faculty policy applied fairly and properly – Faculty took into account illness – Committee does not add percentages to grades to unlock academic barriers – Faculty provided constructive relief – appeal dismissed – remedy of retroactive withdrawal without academic penalty from the term restored – recommendation that Faculty arrange academic accommodations

UTSC – late withdrawal without academic penalty – decision to withdrawal but after deadline – medical circumstances – Student aware of deadlines – sufficient information about progress to make informed decision – insufficient medical evidence – appeal dismissed

UTSC – request to re-write final examination – physical illness – poor instruction – additional materials filed following Notice of Appeal – motion to exclude Faculty response denied – evidence submitted did not merit relief based on medical grounds – no jurisdiction to assess quality of instructor – classroom performance of a particular instructor constitute grounds for academic appeal only where a student was differentially disadvantaged – no conclusive evidence that instruction was inadequate – no reason to conclude that instruction had had differential impact – appeal dismissed

Faculty of Arts & Science – request for late withdrawal without academic penalty – consideration afforded to accommodate illness – final examinations re–weighted to count for 100% – allegation that Faculty transgressed its policies and provisions – University of Toronto Grading Practices Policy – Faculty of Arts and Science policy on “Missed Term Tests” – Faculty of Arts and Science policy on “Marking Schemes” – Faculty’s policies appropriately applied – provisions applied to setting of evaluation not to method following accommodation – recommendation that Faculty consider adding additional clarification to its “Missed Term Tests” – Appeal dismissed