UGC provides for 50 % extra time. so If the total time allowed is 3 hours, you should get 4.5 hours. The computer crash or load shading all depend on your luck. You have no legal right on asking for more extra time. what you can however, ask for is uninterupted power supply.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Shadab Husain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 11:02 PM Subject: [AI] Examinations using pc > Friends, I have some questions on giving examinations using pc. > 1. what if the electricity goes off during the exam, and the > substituting device takes time to start? Will we get extra time for > that? > 2. we are not getting any extra time, but almost everyone makes > typographical errors, and it is easier for sighted people to catch > their mistakes because they look at the screen when they type; but we > don't look. Do we not deserve any extra time for proof reading? > 3. the speed of the computer, in my humble opinion, plays a crucial > role while typing. For example, if we are using the option of both > characters and words while typing on pentium 4, and the ram is less > than 256, jaws takes a little time to speak the typed letter, and when > we press the space bar in order to listen the word, it takes half a > second to speak the word. And sometimes this takes more than this! > Will we get a p 4 with 512 ram to take our examination? > > > trusting a reply from you > > Shadab Husain > > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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 To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
