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Any way of typing the LC?

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  • 12-03-2008 11:55pm
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    Eegah
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23 ✭


    I am an excellent typist for the most part, lighting speed (all the years of practice on MSN) - my handwriting however, lost me some marks for illegibility in the mocks! Is there any way that I can talk to a guidance counsellor and possibly type my exams? (specifically heavily written ones like English/History/Geography) Or do you have to have special needs? :confused:


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    PurpleFistMixer
    Registered Users Posts: 5,851 ✭✭✭PurpleFistMixer


    That'd be damn handy! English would be so easy if I could just type it...


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    Overheal
    Registered Users Posts: 83,534 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Oh that would be splendid... but no. Sadly you have to take your mad typing skills and pick up the old pen and paper. Even in my programming exams I have to do it: its mad.


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    nerdysal
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    You can get a scribe if your writing is really bad. (someone writes it for you) but unfortunetly I think the closing date for all that sort of stuff was mid-February!


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    Delphi91
    Registered Users Posts: 1,501 ✭✭✭Delphi91


    nerdysal wrote: »
    You can get a scribe if your writing is really bad. (someone writes it for you) but unfortunetly I think the closing date for all that sort of stuff was mid-February!

    You'd also have to have an assessment stating that you suffered from a condition which made it difficult for you to write, etc.


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    Jay P
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    My friend has something wrong with his eyes so he gets to type his, but thats a medical reason


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    The Walsho
    Registered Users Posts: 1,251 ✭✭✭The Walsho


    nerdysal wrote: »
    You can get a scribe if your writing is really bad. (someone writes it for you) but unfortunetly I think the closing date for all that sort of stuff was mid-February!

    Surely if you had an accident or something though they'd have to do something? Stick a cast on your arm OP and you're sorted!


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    blue-army
    Registered Users Posts: 1,301 ✭✭✭blue-army


    nerdysal wrote: »
    You can get a scribe if your writing is really bad. (someone writes it for you) but unfortunetly I think the closing date for all that sort of stuff was mid-February!
    That would be really awkward...I wouldn't be able to concentrate at all! How would that work for english though..would they ask you to spell specific words?


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    afatbollix
    Registered Users Posts: 4,067 ✭✭✭afatbollix


    i got to type teo years ago, but ive dyselxia... got a laptops off the school as well ;) you have to have a assisment and you need to aply early ( i prob did in 5th year as thats when i got the laptop) also got my own room so i could walk around if i got too stressed..


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    1huge1
    Registered Users Posts: 6,173 ✭✭✭1huge1


    anto-t wrote: »
    i got to type teo years ago, but ive dyselxia... got a laptops off the school as well ;) you have to have a assisment and you need to aply early ( i prob did in 5th year as thats when i got the laptop) also got my own room so i could walk around if i got too stressed..
    Ya I know a guy with eye sight problems that has to do it on a computer (like really bad eyesight has to use software to make everything bigger), he has a assistant
    Would be very handy especially for english, would rid the nation of spelling mistakes...
    But they would have to work out some system because they couldnt have 50,000 assistants.


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    x_Ashy_x
    Registered Users Posts: 46 ✭x_Ashy_x


    my boyfriend is dyslexic and because his writing is so hard to read he gets to type it...hes big into computers n can type a full essay quicker than i can write my first paragraph lol but yea yav t apply for it really early n ya can apply for readers n a laptop too


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