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I just wrote off an email to them asking the relevant people to ensure all supervisors are told of these rules. I'll post a response if I receive one before I go on holidays next week.

I don't think any special provisions student disagrees with the fact that you have to put up with a normal level of hand pain, but not everyone is in fact capable of improving their writing speeds. For me, it would take professional therapy which isn't an option due to the costs involved - a...

Wow, I think the BOS needs to be a lot clearer on this. My supervisors were happy to let us sit there writing them for 10 minutes afterwards...

I'm a very slow writer, and I suffer from hand cramps worse than most people. Handwriting difficulties are not 'excuses'. I physically can't write as much as some people without having extra time to do it, which puts me at a disadvantage. And yes, I have a report from a registered occupational...

In Chemistry I once said 'homophobic' when I meant 'hydrophobic'.

If a student gets caught with a false special provisions claim, their doctor/therapist would probably be suspended by the Medical Board or something. Exploiting the provisions system basically requires getting a doctor to lie for you. Also I'm annoyed at the comments that suggest that people...

As was mine, back then I actually cared about my handwriting :p

If they can prove that they have medical issues, like at other schools, then I don't see a reason why they shouldn't get special provisions.

With spelling and grammar like yours... And the ATAR estimators don't need school ranks, they ask purely for the aligned, moderated and averaged HSC marks so they don't need to know your internal assessment scores.

The disadvantage of using the PPIPA s14 is that there's no explicit timeframe for them to respond, they just can't delay you 'excessively', whereas under FOI they have 21 days. Also, I'm not sure what the reference to 'excessive ... expense' in s14 means.

Well, you have to hope that if they do punish you they choose to zero the mark, rather than actually give you an N in the course. They can do either. But at this stage I'd say you really need to talk to your principal about it, and make sure you have stat decs from everyone who witnessed it.

If your paper is considered a 'non-attempt', you may end up with an N determination instead of just losing marks. I'm not sure what the exact policy is though. And you really, really must talk to your school principal or director of studies.

That's fairly legible. (And yes, left handed is the only way to go. :D )

Well if a response is actually illegible, as opposed to barely-legible, then I suppose there's not much they can really do, fair enough if they get 0 for that question.

I've heard from numerous teachers that they will try as hard as they can to read what you're writing and figure it out. After all, that's their duty and they are being paid to do it, and they're all teachers with years of experience marking school exams anyway. That said, less-legible...

You can't appeal to the BOS about teaching-related issues, as the job of teaching to the syllabus is the school's problem, not the Board's. All you can do really is file a complaint with the teacher and/or your principal, and in the meantime study study study.

I'm a leftie and I found it a bit hard to read, although I generally have a lot of trouble reading any handwriting that's not very clear printing, or alternatively my sort of scrawl.

Well then who puts the lines through each page on some of the samples that appear in the standards packages? edit: http://arc.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/standards-packs/SP02_15220/files/samples/qexemplar/qexemplar_q21a.pdf - that's an example of what I mean.