In some countries, blind people are giving their exams in Braille. I wonder
why this is not posible in India.
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From: "Kotian, H P" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2010 11:49 AM
Subject: [AI] (no subject)
Dear Rajesh
Well, I beg to differ, just because a paper is written in Braille, it is
expected the paper would be evaluated by VI or it is expected the
evaluator is expected to learn Braille. Braille is certainly an option and
the importance of Braille should not be undermined.
How to deal with Braille paper is an operational issue to be dealt with
the authority. Certainly the practical way out is to get it transcribed by
a person knowing Braille. Sighted or blind.
I would go further to state we should write in Braille to authorities to
ensure the importance of Braille as a medium.
I am unsure if a Braille document can be considered as a legal document
although I reckon there should be no bar in it.It should be interesting to
know the legal status of Braille.
Audio Recording is good, However, it would make the candidate and the
scribe very conscious. Let us not make a blind person treated like a
criminal.If the scribe does not read well it will still not make the
things better as no extra marks would be given for the wrong answer. If
for any reason the authorities could not arrange for recording or if the
recording did not come through will, some hypper intelligent babu would
penalise a blind person for it. You never know.
Harish Kotian.
From: "Asudani, Rajesh" <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [AI] Examinations
Well, braillers, what about evaluation?
Do you want papers of VI to be valued by VI only, or would you insist
valuers to learn Braille?
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From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Amit Bhatt
Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 10:12 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [AI] Examinations
Well I too would not deny the fact that there is no better option than
writing the exams on our own using the Assistive Technology or Computer.
But if we want to use it just because some of the candidates are taking
the help from their Writers, then use of Computer also seems to be futile
and helpless to stop the cheating in the examination since Computer will
be very useful to correct the spelling mistakes specially for those who
are not that good in English spellings while writing a subjective Paper.
I think currently the main theme of our on going discussion is "Criteria
and eligibility of Scribe," not about the Candidate whether he or she is
honestly answering the papers or not. so better if we do not deviate from
the original topic and do not discuss about cheating and copying in the
exam. Otherwise this will be a endless debate and our motive of preparing
the correct guidelines on Scribe eligibility will not be fulfilled,
however, the problem of cheating will be remained there unless the
Invigilator is very active. I would again say that how can you stop the
sighted applicants who copy in the exam? So what my purpose is to say that
doing swindle during the examinations is not our problem but the problem
lies on the part of Invigilator and related authority who conduct the
examination.
As far as taking the Exams through Braille is concerned, the idea is good
but then I would again say the time needs to be extended for writing the
exams since practically writing Braille takes more energy as compare to
use the pen and Braille cannot be faster than the print in writing in case
of use of simple Braille-Slate. Yes, brailor can indeed be a very useful
tool to overcome with the problem of speed but, now question is raised
about how to arrange the Brailor, who would afford for those who cannot
buy it and there are many such problems involved in the use of Brail
script during the examination. So better if we continue with the use of
Scribe.
Regards,
Amit Bhatt
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