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Project No: LLP-LdV-TOI-2007-UK-065
Education and Culture Lifelong learning programme LEONARDO DA VINCI
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Adjustments for Assessments taken under Examination Conditions

The following are suggested adjustments to be implemented under examination conditions, where applicable. Please remember that the experience of a disabling condition is highly personalised; for example one person with a visual impairment may have no vision at all and be a Braille user, whereas another may have some useful residual vision that allows them to read with high magnification and not read Braille. Avoid making assumptions about what will be an appropriate adjustment and discuss these with the individual concerned.

  • Extra time =/<25% (where the centre cannot verify evidence of the disability or difficulty e.g. for mature candidates in the workplace)
  • Extra time >25%
  • Extra time on-line
  • Alternative venue
  • Extension to candidate registration end date
  • Assistive technology (speech/screen reading software)
  • Voice activated software
  • Early opening of externally-set assessment materials (one hour before the exam)
  • Enlarged unmodified papers
  • Enlarged modified papers
  • Enlarged on-screen assessment
  • Assessment material in Braille
  • Language modified assessment materials
  • Assessment material in BSL
  • Assessment material on coloured paper
  • Colour naming
  • Assessment material in audio format
  • Use of ICT (word processors)
  • Spoken responses using electronic recording equipment
  • Responses in BSL
  • Responses in Braille
  • Reader
  • Scribe
  • BSL/English interpreter
  • Prompter (for Certificates of Competence only)
  • Practical assistant
  • Transcriber/transcript 

The Federation of Awarding Bodies Good Practice Guide: ‘The application of reasonable. adjustments and special consideration in vocational qualifications’, March 2006