Aegrotat is a medical certificate of illness excusing student's sickness. Rarely used today except in the United Kingdom and Commonwealth, and then only in the context of degrees and courses considered as passed by a student too ill to finish the appropriate material. Aegrotat is the only surviving remnant of the Latin verb aegrotare. Illness can be a synonym for disease or it can be a persons perception of having poor health. ... Flag of the Commonwealth of Nations The Commonwealth of Nations is an association of independent sovereign states, most of which are former colonies once governed by the United Kingdom as part of the British Empire. ... The British bachelors degree classification system is a grading scheme used to distinguish between the achievements of bachelors degree graduates in the United Kingdom. ...