[blindLaw] Extra time for law exams

[Aimee Harwood]

My school did not care the least bit about technical issues. They did not take that into consideration for anything. Take the time. If you find down the road you will need more time for the bar or any other exam such as that, you will have a hard time getting it if you can't show it being given previously.

Aimee

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> On Jul 13, 2019, at 8:01 AM, kelby carlson via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> Typically I ask for 50% time. That has been more than enough. I did have a technological issue once, and thankfully the school recognized it and stopped the clock.
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>> On Jul 11, 2019, at 9:30 PM, Howard Adelsberg via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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>> I had to take the multistate professional responsibility exam recently and I purposely asked for 100% time. You don’t have to use all your time but at least have the option
>> 
>>> On Jul 11, 2019, at 2:51 AM, Rahul Bajaj via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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>>> Hi All,
>>> 
>>> I am wondering how much extra time you normally ask for for law exams and actually require. I gave my exams on the computer for the first time this year in a set of postgraduate exams and was offered 100% extra and took it. I did not have a realistic assessment at the time of how much I would need, not having given exams in this fashion before.
>>> 
>>> I realized later, however, that perhaps 1-third extra would have sufficed, at least for 3 out of 4 exams. In such a situation, do you think one should voluntarily relinquish the unneeded extra time, so as to be assessed on the same terms as your ablebodied counterparts? I tried to put a self-imposed time limit below the 100% extra time but ended up not really being able to adhere to it, as it was not a serious deadline.   Further, part of the reason why I took 100% extra was because I was afraid there’d be a tech breakdown - this had happened the year before and also because I was given a keyboard with a layout radically different from my own for the exam.
>>> 
>>> I suppose that concern can be addressed by asking the examiners to make it clear in the adjustment instructions that the clock will be tolled whenever there is a tech problem.
>>> 
>>> Best,
>>> Rahul 
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