[blindlaw] LSAT Acommodation Follow-up

[tim and vickie shaw]

Ya daeling with the LSAC so far sucks as far as I am concerned. Having to dig up SAT scores and stuff for tests i took 10 years ago and stuff. I told my doctor everything i was requesting on my own form so that he could not it on his as well. My doctor was lat submitting my papers to LSAC tough by one day so I had to bump back my testing day til February for the LSAT whihc will put me last in line for law school admissions. They told me in the letter notifying me that they recieved my papers to late to contac them to let hem knwo if i was my accomodations to be considered for the next testing date and I did and I really dont see the point of contacting them because their response says  I have to redo all the paperwork anyway so why didnt I jsut do that why did I have tot tell them? lol. They made it soudn like theyd jsut review the papers I had submitted towards the next test date instead.> From: jsorozco at gmail.com> To: blindlaw at nfbnet.org> Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:10:35 -0500> Subject: [blindlaw] LSAT Acommodation Follow-up> > Everett,> > A laptop accommodation? I had such an accommodation for the GRE, but I've> heard so many horror stories of dealing with the LSAC that I thought a> Perkins was going to be the extent of my additional tools. Did you have> someone else note the accommodation on their evaluation, or did you get away> with noting it on your own general form? Thank you in advance.> > Joe Orozco> > "Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity."--James M.> Barrie> -----Original Message-----> From: blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On> Behalf Of E.J. Zufelt> Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 8:25 PM> To: NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List> Subject: Re: [blindlaw] Testing accommodations> > Good evening,> > I didn't take a barr exam, but here are the accommodations that I was> granted for the LSAT.> > 1. A reader / transcriber for all of the questions.> a. I was able to work with the reader before the LSAT and had the option to> reject the reder and request a new reader.> > 2. For the logic portion of the LSAT I was able to use my personal laptop> to work through the questions.> > 3. for the writing portion of the LSAT I was able to use my personal laptop> and saved my answer on a memory stick provided by the reader.> > I didn't do amazingly well, but I didn't pay a single dollar for the first> year of law school, so things must of gone well enough. Not to mention I> had the flu on the day I wrote the LSAT and had to blow my nose every 20> minutes.> > HTH,> Everett> > > ----- Original Message -----> From: "James Weisberg" <theweisberggroup at sbcglobal.net>> To: "NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List" <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>> Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 7:47 PM> Subject: Re: [blindlaw] Testing accommodations> > > > Testing accommodations from the Cal Bar? Enjoy the experience, I wish > > you luck. Some advice: submit your request as early as possible to > > avoid the tired technique of providing your accommodation letter when > > it's too close to exam time to appeal their decision. Make part of your > > accommodation request the need to use the Pac Mate as "part of" your > > adaptive equipment. This way they have to figure out how you will submit> > > your answers. I used a laptop and JAWS and the Bar provided me > > diskettes. One final caveat, sometime prior to the exam you should > > contact someone by phone to confirm your materials will be available in > > electronic format (If necessary) so you don't show up on day one to > > discover there are no materials as requested but instead a dyslexic > > reader. Again, good luck.> >> > James> > On Nov 14, 2008, at 2:46 PM, Leslie Fairall wrote:> >> >> I will be taking the first Year Law Exam next year (2009) and will need > >> to apply for testing accommodations soon. I would like to type the > >> essays using my Pac Mate. What I'm trying to figure out is how I would > >> give them to the examiner when I'm finished. Sighted people who will be > >> using laptops use a software program called ExamSoft and will upload > >> their answers. I'm interested in hearing from people who have taken the > >> bar exam with either a notetaker or laptop. If you took the California > >> bar, that's even better but all responses are welcome. Thanks.> >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________> >> blindlaw mailing list> >> blindlaw at nfbnet.org> >> http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/blindlaw_nfbnet.org> >> To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for > >> blindlaw:> >>> http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/options/blindlaw_nfbnet.org/theweisberggroup%4> 0sbcglobal.net> >> >> > _______________________________________________> > blindlaw mailing list> > blindlaw at nfbnet.org> > http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/blindlaw_nfbnet.org> > To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for > > blindlaw:> >> http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/options/blindlaw_nfbnet.org/everett%40zufelt.c> a> > > > > _______________________________________________> blindlaw mailing list> blindlaw at nfbnet.org> http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/blindlaw_nfbnet.org> To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for> blindlaw:> http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/options/blindlaw_nfbnet.org/jsorozco%40gmail.c> om> > > _______________________________________________> blindlaw mailing list> blindlaw at nfbnet.org> http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/blindlaw_nfbnet.org> To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for blindlaw:> http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/options/blindlaw_nfbnet.org/timandvickie%40hotmail.com
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