Hello everyone, I really hope I've posted this in the correct section, there's a load of sections and it's slightly daunting!
I'm in the lower six (Sixth Form) and I'm wondering about laptops. One of my friends has been granted permission to use laptops in his AS exams as long as he uses his laptop in everyday lessons. He knows the material but he's a slightly slow writer and his hand writing isn't as clear as other people's, and most teachers recognised that time for him would be an issue in the exams.
Now, about me, my hand writing can be neat if I'm taking it easy, but when I'm in timed conditions then my writing can get very scruffy and almost illegible - I'm not sure if there is any particular criterion set to be authorised a laptop in the exam. My two cents is that everyone should have the right of using means they feel more comfortable with, but I'm not sure how the law / schools operate this.
If it is only persons with recognised "disabilities" getting the opportunity to be given laptops, then I would find that a trifle bit unfair. I think of it like a race. If someone's car is unreliable and a little bit slow, them being given a car twice as fast as everybody else's isn't exactly fair. It's proven that the average typing speeds are higher than the average hand writing speeds, after all.
I await your responses. Thanks in advance.