On Mon, 2010-09-06 at 21:41 +0530, Swasti Mathur wrote: > 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 > > > > Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with > > disability bill at: > > http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm > > > > 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 > > > > > > > Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with > disability bill at: > http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm > > 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
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