aegrotat

After illness in his final year he was awarded an aegrotat degree.

A football accident in 1877 prevented him from further involvement in athletics and he took an Aegrotat degree in 1879.

The term aegrotat (abbreviated as aegrot) is used primarily in the United Kingdom and Commonwealth of Nations.

Illness prevented him from sitting the honours examinations and he received an aegrotat in 1849, after which he spent a year in Scotland reading for holy orders.

He eventually graduated with a BA, having been granted an aegrotat in Part I of the Natural Sciences Tripos.

(An aegrotat is a certificate stating that the student was too ill to stand for examination, but that the professor judged her/him worthy of a credit. )

In the context of British undergraduate degrees a student who is too ill to finish may be awarded an aegrotat degree if the student otherwise would have passed exams or other requirements.

Mr. Snyder's favorite word of all time is "aegrotat" (EE-grow-tat), for a degree or course credit awarded when a student has been unable to complete required academic work because of illness.

He answered: I think if she sits for her examination, she may work herself into a terrible state and do badly and I would be happy to support her application for an aegrotat on physical and psychological grounds.

In 1930 he won an open scholarship to read modern history at Trinity College, Cambridge, and he gained a first in part i of the modern history tripos (1932), and an aegrotat in part ii (1933).

A candidate who is unable to take his or her exams because of illness can sometimes be awarded an aegrotat degree; this is an honours degree without classification, awarded on the understanding that had the candidate been well, he or she would have obtained honours.

After serving briefly in World War I as a Second Lieutenant in the King's Own Scottish Borderers, he took a degree in modern history at Oriel College, Oxford (which, as recorded in 1066 and All That, was awarded through an aegrotat in 1922).

I told Dr. Kaye that Mae wanted me to repeat the lectures to her from the tapes and intended to finish her essay on Henry James and that she would apply for an aegrotat standing based on the grade obtained from her participation in seminars and her two essays.