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So, bit of back story. Was in 3rd year of 5 year masters engineering course and completely fucked an exam, plus its resit (mix of hating that subject and not getting it). My advisor of studies tells me that I can either resit that class with just the end exam, or I can resit the class with attendance, where I'd have to attend lectures, Labs an class tests.

Now last year the mark distribution for the class was 60% exam, 30% for two class tests and 10% labs however he said that if I did resit with attendance, while I would have to attend the labs and tests to make sure I understood the content, only the mark i got in the final exam mattered.

So I decided to do a resit with attendance as I wanted to make sure I understood the content, plus i got a part time job as well to cover expenses. Good call as the lecturer who taught it last year got fired and this years lecturer has overhauled the course big time. Fast forward to january 2016 and the second class test, worth 15% (if it counted) is coming up, however due to a mixture of me feeling depressed (not medical diagnosed, just felt like shit) and admittedly laziness, I didn't attend it, so got 0%.

This week my lecturer emailed me saying something unrelated about labs and I asked him to clarify whether my labs counted for anything and he told me that actually, they did, then emailed me the next day saying that, unless I could provide evidence or an excuse, that I would be going into this exam with a 15% penalty on my marks due to not attending the class test.

So what I'm asking is what excuse, that I have no actual evidence for, can I give for not attending a class test two months ago or reporting it at the time? I need every advantage I can get in this exam as I really need to pass this or I'd have wasted 4 years of my life and lord knows how much of mine and my parents money