I am also sailing on the same boat. I hold a doctoral degree in Chemistry and I find people in my knowledge who are well qualified around me as friends Getting a scribe with such a constraint is a big challenge. Making a good coordination with the organization’s scribe remains always a handicap we encounter. Even if we take our own scribe for the examination, they treat very badly and in a disgusting manner which disappoints a lot while going to perform there.Non’Chemistry person cannot help to read the question paper in a good manner and scribe with a limitation of qualification cannot be met by the requirement of a scholar of the other field. I would also like to share here a few incidences which disappointed me very much and I fear of such things to happen again in all of next attempts in any examination.
In IIT Kanpur, they allotted same compensatory time to all the categories of PwD candidates, even if they had not adopted any scribe and were good at writing their own exams themselves. In the same institute, in one other examination, they didn’t let read the markings in the glaring burette in the torch light while trade test by their lab assistant. They didn’t provide any alternative to the graph paper and just told to leave making it . They provided graphical question also in the same trade test. In IIT Madras, they took a hand-written note that they will provide me assistance while trade test as per my requirements, However, they failed to provide it and given a task to distinguish the color shades of the pH indicator. In Airport Authority of India, they didn’t provide support reading the material for typing test as per my requirement and left the seat vacant. In MP Vyapam, they didn’t let me take a scribe while online test. They didn’t provide it from their side also. I filled the application in VI category but there was no any field to ask for scribe at that time. I called to the Controller of the Examination but they didn’t permit and I didn’t appear on the said exam. In CSIR CDRI, they didn’t let my scribe write the calculations, It was mental ability test and there were long series of numbers what I had to memorize in a sequential manner to give an option to my scribe to make a tick mark only . I had to write the complex numbers’ series again and again and do make big calculations on paper without any assistance . Besides, they were standing beside me and making the examination worse with their constant disturbances. They had no guidelines to give proper compensatory time. Next to this paper, they overlapped the time of other paper which had a negative marking and counted more marks. They didn’t allow me to relax my weak eyes getting tired of striving to see the calculations even on demand, though it was not possible to see the printed or hand-written notes with eyes. In the third paper, they put graphical questions but they didn’t provide me an alternative questions. The scribe was unable to explain it. When I opposed they brought their senior to make a promise that they will omit these questions and will not count such questions for marking. They didn’t provide any written statement of this even on making demand of it. In fact they knew that I scored highest in the trade test on the previous day but now they were creating obstacles so that I may not perform well. There are a lot to speak about. I have now left applying any more because of the bitter experiences I had ever faced and applying other streams as there is no room for a VI in the field of Chemistry. On 01/08/2019, Ashish Jha <ashishjhalo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I was refering to the scribe rules which has been laid in UPSC CS > Mains Exam Notification dated 1st August 2019. It reads as follows in > Page 9: > "The candidates have discretion of opting for his/her own scribe or > request the Commission for the same. The details of scribe i.e. > whether own or the Commission’s and the details of scribe in case > candidates are bringing their own scribe, will be sought at the time > of filling up the application form online. Suitable provisions in > Online Application have been made. > The qualification of the Commission’s scribe as well as own scribe > will not be more than the minimum qualification criteria of the > examination. However, the qualification of the scribe should always be > matriculate or above." > > Hence, this means that the scribe qualification should be less than or > equal to graduation. > > 1. Request if anyone of you can help me in understanding whether the > rules framed in 2018 by the Government with regards to the scribe's > qualification constraint is still effective? > Or please correct my understanding, if I am wrong. I was having the > understanding that there was a subsequent Judicial guidelines in > 2018, which restored the scribe qualifications back to Government's > order issued in 2013, which reads as follows: > " Criteria like educational qualification, marks scored, age or other > such restrictions for the scribe/reader/lab assistant should not be > fixed. Instead, the invigilation system should be strengthened, so > that the candidates using scribe/reader/lab assistant do not indulge > in mal-practices like copying and cheating during the examination." > > Hence, please help in understanding whether there is any uniform > policy on scribe and if so then from where this can be obtained? There > are many candidates who have limited resources and they do not have > flexibility with making the choices of the scribes and sometimes this > becomes more difficult in small towns and rural areas. > 2. Secondly, while I was volunteering certain classes at a NGO last > Saturday, I got following feedback from some of the students. > a) One of the student stated that she went for IDBI examination > recently. At the centre, she was told that a non-Arts student cannot > be her scribe. Although there was nothing as such mentioned in the > notification. > b. A blind brother and sister visited Kolkata from Asansol to appear > in UPSC Prelims examination in June 2019, since they could not able to > manage their own scribe, so they opted for the Commission's scribe. > But their feedback was that the scribes were unable to read the > sentences properly and there was a wide mismatch with the > pronunciation of the scribes as well, as a result of which their > performance was highly impacted. > > > > Search for old postings at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ > > To unsubscribe send a message to > accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please > visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > > Disclaimer: > 1. 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