He has sent this news to the AI days ago.
Renuka E,
Section Officer,
ICT Centre for Visually Challlenged,
CHMK Library,
University ofCalicut,
Malappuram Dist.,
Kerala.
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From: "Dr. Yogesh Sharma" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2011 9:46 PM
Subject: [AI] Law schools test to go disabled-friendly this year
Hi friends, Here is a piece of good news for the LAW Aspirant V I Youth,
courtsey Mr. Prateek Agreval:--
Law schools test to go disabled-friendly this year
prateek aggarwal <[email protected]> May 02 02:15PM +0530 ^
Hi members, the following sounds like a great news for law aspirants.
Perhaps it may help some of you.
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Law schools test to go disabled-friendly this year - The Times of India
Mathang Seshagiri, TNN | May 2, 2011, 12.47am IST
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bangalore/Law-schools-test-to-go-disabled-friendly-this-year/articleshow/8137883.cms
BANGALORE: The largest-ever law school exam that decides admission to
nearly a dozen national schools across
India
will turn disabled-friendly this summer.
Additional time to crack the two-hour exam, option of bringing one's
own scribes along with instruments for problem-solving and a question
paper sans any
visual reasoning to aid the blind are some of the key features of the
Common Law Admission Test
(CLAT) policy of candidates with disabilities to be implemented from
this year.
The West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (WBNUJS),
Kolkata which is organising the fourth edition of CLAT, will allow
disabled candidates
who are hearing/vision impaired to bring their own scribes or have the
CLAT committee pick a scribe for them. The scribe must be one
educational class
junior to the candidate and must also not be someone pursuing a law
degree. The scribe will also give a declaration stating that he/she
will not in any
way help the disabled candidate answer any question in the paper,
apart from the regular duty of reading out the paper and pencilling
the correct answer.
"Thus far, there has been no consistent CLAT policy on the issue of
scribes. While some CLAT-conducting law schools permitted candidates
to bring their
own scribes, others did not. We, therefore, decided that we must adopt
a detailed policy that would aim to balance the concerns of disabled
candidates
as well as to ensure a fair conduct of the CLAT examination. Also, we
realised that it was important to grant disabled candidates the option
of bringing
their own scribes. Often times, it so happens that externally provided
scribes do not work well with the disabled candidate, and this has a
detrimental
impact on their examination," MP Singh, CLAT 2011 convenor, told TOI.
Disabled candidates taking the May 15 exam will get 40 additional
minutes to complete the under-graduate entrance test and 60 minutes
for the post-graduate
test.
The question paper itself is being given a makeover to make it
friendly for the differently-abled. "We've decided that we will not
have any "visual reasoning"
questions in the "logical reasoning" section, since this unfairly
prejudices visually impaired candidates who are not able to see the
visuals in the question.
We've also decided to permit them to bring their own instruments for
helping with sections such as maths, which might require the use of
Taylor Frames,
for visually impaired candidates," said
Shamnad Basheer,
professor at WBNUJS and part of the CLAT committee.
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