In Kerala the candidates can write their exams in braille for the SSLC
examination and the pictorial based questions are exumpted. For other exams
there is no such rule though.
E RENUKA,
SECTION OFFICER,
ICT CENTRE FOR VISUALLY CHALLENGED,
CHMK LIBRARY,
UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT
CALICUT, UNIVERSITY P O,
MALAPPURAM DISTRICT,
KERALA.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Swasti Mathur" <swastimat...@gmail.com>
To: <accessindia@accessindia.org.in>
Sent: Monday, September 06, 2010 9:41 PM
Subject: Re: [AI] Examinations
hello madam,
my views are as follows:
first of all to reduce dependability of vi candidates on scribes for
appearing in exams, where ever possible use of assistive technology must
be laid amphysis.
for eg., few management exams are now conducted on line. as these are
computer based exams, it is very practical to make use of jaws or other
screen readers. such exams also overcome the hinderence of bias by
examiner towards Vi candidates either too libral or too harsh as pointed
by one of our friend. these technological advancements must be
accomodated.
secondly, There should not be any stringint rules to be complied with
while arranging for a writer. in place of it, invigilator in charge should
be very dedicated towards his/her duty because many times i came across
people who take a very good writer and they themselves dont do anything
other than sitting and in place the entire paper is solved by the scribe.
such practises are dubious raising serious questions on the capability of
entire vi community. people tends to develop a mallaicious tendency
towards us. most of the time invigilators are not found on the duty or
sitting there and engaging themselves in some other chores. they should be
very alert and see that upto what extent scribe is assisting the
candidate. is candidate herself is answering questions or they are ansered
by writer? this practice also act as a partiality against other vi
candidates.
writer should be always from the same field or must be assosiated with the
subject concerning the examination for which a vi candidate is appearing.
writer must be in no case be arranged by the body conducting exams. this
must entirely lie in the domain of vi candidate appearing for exam.
questions of pictorial presentations must in every case be replaced by
theoritical questions. in many examinations there is no such provision
like in management exams. these exams have complex data to be interpreted.
as i am aiming at CAT, FMS, XAT, SNAP etc. inclusion of screen readers
will be a very cozy step in this direction.
hope my opinions will add to this bettle against present dogmas.
regards
swasti Mathur
Sandeep Gautam wrote:
Dear all,
the problem of a scribe is common to all VI people who are student or
appearing for one or other exam (either for job etc.)
I know one person, who is a graduate from very reputed college in Delhi
and speaks very fluent, impressive, correct and intelligent English. but,
when he is told to type a paper, he even don't know the spelling of
"that" and other so simple words. .
this was because he studied from audio material and with the help of
readers and got high colours with the help of a intelligent scribe.
This draws very bad image for VI person as it shows VI persons got pass
in high colours due to the efficiency of good scribe ( although opposite
cases are also there).
I say, why we depend on good or bad writer?
why we depend on his/her (writer) understanding or knowledge of
spellings?
When we use JAWS or Talks to access machines or informations by our own
without any scribe, then, why we need a scribe to evaluate our capability
and academic knowledge?
We should have a simple and single law to use a computer (desktop/laptop)
to appear any exam and, diagram and figure questions should be replaced
with equally weighted theory questions.
one practical difficulty appears in my mind that how examiner will
respond to the computer typed answer sheets because it is clear from the
answer sheet that this is of a VI candidate ( he could be too liberal or
too rigid).
bye
Sandeep G
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