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Hello.
I am interested in hearing about people who have had 25% extra time agreed for public exams (which is usually based on normal school test and exam arrangements for that person) in the last 5 years.
There appears to be pretty inconsistent adjustments being made for diabetic children for both internal and public school exams. While sitting in separate rooms to take exams and “stopping the clock” to treat hypos seem to be generally accepted there is a huge difference in treatment in terms of extra time being given for Type 1's taking exams. My 13 year old son is a couple of years away from GCSEs but experience to date has shown that he has been badly affected by hypos or hypers during exams. At the last set of school exams he did amazingly well in some subjects and in other subjects when he was hyper his spelling totally went to the point where the relevant teacher said he has no idea what happened (I do, he was 22 MMOL for over an hour) and in others he had 2 hypos during a 90 minute exam and as soon as he was in range was asked to continue the exam - of course with dire results. Of course immediately taking exams following a hypo or hyper doesn’t taking into account the cognitive effect this has on performance for several hours later which is why I believe that 25% extra time which seem to be given out for lots of other conditions is something that Type 1's should be able to avail themselves of. It appears that some students are given this but many are not.
I would be really interested to hear from anybody that has had the 25% extra time applied to them. It is something that the school need to apply for on the student's behalf but some students seem to be getting this fairly easily while others are given a blatant "no" from the school. I would be very interested to hear how students have achieved this and what supporting evidence, including assessments, were helpful. Thanks very much.
I am interested in hearing about people who have had 25% extra time agreed for public exams (which is usually based on normal school test and exam arrangements for that person) in the last 5 years.
There appears to be pretty inconsistent adjustments being made for diabetic children for both internal and public school exams. While sitting in separate rooms to take exams and “stopping the clock” to treat hypos seem to be generally accepted there is a huge difference in treatment in terms of extra time being given for Type 1's taking exams. My 13 year old son is a couple of years away from GCSEs but experience to date has shown that he has been badly affected by hypos or hypers during exams. At the last set of school exams he did amazingly well in some subjects and in other subjects when he was hyper his spelling totally went to the point where the relevant teacher said he has no idea what happened (I do, he was 22 MMOL for over an hour) and in others he had 2 hypos during a 90 minute exam and as soon as he was in range was asked to continue the exam - of course with dire results. Of course immediately taking exams following a hypo or hyper doesn’t taking into account the cognitive effect this has on performance for several hours later which is why I believe that 25% extra time which seem to be given out for lots of other conditions is something that Type 1's should be able to avail themselves of. It appears that some students are given this but many are not.
I would be really interested to hear from anybody that has had the 25% extra time applied to them. It is something that the school need to apply for on the student's behalf but some students seem to be getting this fairly easily while others are given a blatant "no" from the school. I would be very interested to hear how students have achieved this and what supporting evidence, including assessments, were helpful. Thanks very much.
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