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Hello,

My school has recently approached me and asked if I would like to sit both my mock exams and A-Levels using a laptop. I wanted to ask if anybody had any experience doing so and would be very grateful if I could hear their input. I was also wondering if there were any potential disadvantages to me sitting my exams on a laptop. For example, are unis aware if I have sat my exams on a laptop, and if so, does this disadvantage me in any way? If anybody has any input that they may think is even slightly relevant to my question, I would be extremely grateful if you were to share it.

Many Thanks!

Hello,

My school has recently approached me and asked if I would like to sit both my mock exams and A-Levels using a laptop. I wanted to ask if anybody had any experience doing so and would be very grateful if I could hear their input. I was also wondering if there were any potential disadvantages to me sitting my exams on a laptop. For example, are unis aware if I have sat my exams on a laptop, and if so, does this disadvantage me in any way? If anybody has any input that they may think is even slightly relevant to my question, I would be extremely grateful if you were to share it.

Many Thanks!

My school's Special Education Needs Coordinator has said that if I would like to, I would be eligible to use a laptop; all I have to do is say yes. Luckily for me, I take all essay-based humanities subjects, although I am slightly worried about economics due to the fact that I don't know how diagrams would work when using a laptop. Would I need to draw these on paper separately, or would there be a function that allows me to draw them accurately on the laptop? As for my school telling universities about me sitting my exams on a laptop, my SENCo has said that they do not disclose such information to universities or anyone else, and the only way a university would know was if they expressly asked me personally to tell them.

The fact that you take essay-based humanities subjects helps this decision I would say. If you can type faster than your can write, then go for it. (And I don't just mean the physical act of typing - I mean the fact that using a laptop means you can rearrange what you've written into a more coherent structure if that's something which isn't a strength for you.)

I mentioned earlier that you "may find yourself switching between paper and laptop a bit". You have to submit the paper-based exam booklet (with your name, exam centre number, candidate number, etc. on it). For those questions where you want to use pen and paper (e.g. diagrams in Economics) you just use pen and paper as you always have previously. For those questions where you want to use the laptop, you simply write "laptop" on the paper, to inform the examiner / marker to refer to what you've typed on the laptop for your answer.

hey I did my economics paper on laptop and some on the exam paper. after the exam they printed the work I wrote on computer and put it inside the exam paper. i didn't mention "laptop" on the actual exam paper for the examiner to know I wrote the answers on laptop. I don't know if its fine or do i need to do anything about it? i also want to mention i am edexcel exam board.