the "dyslexia" excuse EXTRA TIME! WTH?

Whats dislexic? DO you mean dispraxic when you cant breath like? It fait for extra time if you cnat breaht surely

ditto
in terms of maths mocks me and him have simliar grades, hell he probably gets a few percentages more than me, but we did an exam recently and i made a calculation error and he did too, but after an hour (when my exam had finished) he spotted it and made ammendments which is an extra 5 MARKS which potentially could have increased your grade!

Also exam markers are trained to read handwriting, if they cant read it it gets passed on to another examiner. You don't even get marked for handwriting qualities in year 6 SATs let alone anything else! Also if your handwriting is that bad, you would have been advised to get a scribe by your teacher and/or exam board.

your not really making a valid argument really are you
obviously theres testing ...obviously its justified that they get the extra time
they need the extra time to read through the exam and write it out not to spend longer on the questions to get it right the just take longer to do the basic
it doesnt mean they're getting better grades than you because of the extra time

Some of us are a little bit past year 6 SATs and 'teachers' when we make references to exams

This thread is unbelievable.

"ok fair enough but why openly show off about it? IMO thats inexcusable"

Show off? Do you really think they will want to 'show off' about having difficulty with reading and spelling? They get extra time because they need it, and you don't because you don't have difficulties. Dyslexia doesn't effect your IQ!

I'm dyslexic, however I feel it's not exactly fair on others because seriously... if you have some fatal disease on the exam day then fair enough, but extra time for dyslexia, especially in say.. a maths exam, it doesn't make sense.

P.S. I've never claimed extra time myself

Touché!
But I'm just saying it's making it sound like he would get marked down because of his handwriting, which (as far as i'm aware) only happens in primary school tests...

Jealousy is a terrible thing.

Jealousy is a terrible thing.

trust me there are flaws, this guy hasn't had no records of dyslexia in gcse, nor in his life somehow he is diagnosed in a-levels? Ok fair enough it can happen but why tell me he tricked the school? And i very regeretably overheard a convo this his mate were he was literally explaining the steps! , all i wanted was some people's opinion about this and is he lying! As he seems to really shove it in my face the past few days