Why do people with autism get extra time in exams

Your title doesn't make much sense. You're asking why something belonging to an autistic gets extra time in exams.

Asperger's. I think you mean gets, A*s and his.

You don't know enough about him to make a judgement about what he needs. He might have different or more difficulties in an actual exam as opposed to classwork. He might only need it in his other subjects, but due to the system gets it in every exam.


That may be a serious issue in equality or it might not be. There are three legitimate reasons I can think of why a school might let some students take 5 A-levels and only let some take 4. These are GCSE grades, A-level choices(some combinations go better together) and whether the student applied to do 5. If you didn't get good enough grades, chose subjects that were very varied or didn't make the school aware that you wanted to do 5 then it's understandable.
If you get extra time in one subject then you get it in them all. It's an unfair system in that way.

This is unacceptable behaviour, but has nothing to do with exams.

I have just started treatment for an ASD called Aspergers Syndrome. Even though it makes science and maths quite easy. It makes subjective subjects like english really difficult. Your frustrations are based on the fact that this person is really intelligent and gets extra time which you believe to be unfair however, something you don't understand is that for maths and science he will probably get top marks however for english he will (probably) struggle as for people like us, it's difficult to understand how people operate and so trying to understand the author is an almost impossible task. Then you have to consider that you only get an hour and half to figure this out. Extra time is necessary in this circumstance. However, you can't just give him extra time in 'some' exams, you have to give him extra time in all exams because that's not fair on him to only have extra time in some exams.

Finally, I would like to point out that exams aren't the end point of your life. You do your GCSE exams and then you do your A-Levels. Then, you may go to university. However, as soon as you get out of education, have you considered how difficult it will be for that person after he leaves school and he has to live in a world he doesn't understand?

Just something to think about.

He is literally the only student in the entirety of the Sixth Form that was allowed to take 5 A-Levels...

a kid in my school, has aspergers or whatever it's called. He's more intelligent than anyone in the school, and retains information without doing hardly/much work and get's amazing grades. But the thing that gets me, is that he has an extra half an hour in every exam, despite him getting nearly 100 percent in everything and being predicted A*'s, he's excuse is that it takes his brain longer to function(which is bs he's quicker than everyone in class and is always on the last question when we leave). Then if he beats one of us in an exam, he gets really cocky and gloats about it. I feel this is pretty unfair.

I hope I don't offend anybody but having autism is no excuse to act like an a-hole. From the description from the OP, I wouldn't like the guy myself. The autistic guy does not sound like he has a very pleasant personality. If someone knows they're smarter than me and brags about a high score, I'm going to dislike them.

The fact he has autism is pretty irrelevant. His personality needs improvement. The OP is not judging him based on his autism. He is judging him on his cocky attitude. People are not aloud to express dislike about a person because they have autism or different from the majority? Lol.

You just reminded me. I get extra time in exams but when I did my A levels I didnt. I studied economics [at A level] and I often found myself struggling for time in exams. If only I had had extra exam time then.

Why shouldn't I get extra time, I may forget things that may come back to me later...yeah he's a right c u next tuesday about it. thing is he's not like the other kid with aspergers that obviously needs it, like he has to have someone with him all the time and spasms, but this other kid is fine and only thing proper wrong is being socially awkward.

a kid in my school, has aspergers or whatever it's called. He's more intelligent than anyone in the school, and retains information without doing hardly/much work and get's amazing grades. But the thing that gets me, is that he has an extra half an hour in every exam, despite him getting nearly 100 percent in everything and being predicted A*'s, he's excuse is that it takes his brain longer to function(which is bs he's quicker than everyone in class and is always on the last question when we leave). Then if he beats one of us in an exam, he gets really cocky and gloats about it. I feel this is pretty unfair.

Why shouldn't I get extra time, I may forget things that may come back to me later...yeah he's a right c u next tuesday about it. thing is he's not like the other kid with aspergers that obviously needs it, like he has to have someone with him all the time and spasms, but this other kid is fine and only thing proper wrong is being socially awkward.

Yes because obviously disabled people are all illiterate and will get poorer grades. What a disgustingly ignorant comment.

And obviously disabled people have a choice, don't they? On whether or not they want to be disabled. I mean, it's totally a choice. (This is sarcasm. I feel I must point this out because people on this thread seem incapable of comprehending simple things.)


What the hell is wrong with people on TSR?


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