<p>No. It is not considered reason enough to delay an exam.</p>
<p>When I taught college, the morning of an exam, one of my students came and and told me she’d have to delay taking it because her father had just died of lung cancer that morning and she had to fly home. That is an example of the kind of reason that is acceptable. She took the exam after she returned from her dad’s funeral. She aced the exam (which, incidentally, was different than the one that I gave the rest of the class because I never gave the same exam twice).</p>
<p>In the recommendation that I wrote for her to go to law school, I also wrote about how she handled that, giving it an example of how responsible she was. She got into her first choice – Georgetown and now works for a major law firm.</p>