"Special Provisions" BS! (1 Viewer)

[sarah889]

My girlfriend just got special provisions for her HSC, which means for every half an hour she is entitled to an extra 5 minutes! thats alot when you think about how short for time we are, especially in english. She also has 15 minutes where she can just get up and leave to get a drink and walk around, without this digging into the time she has to complete the exam.

now this is ok, for people who have serious problems, but my girlfriend was only entitled to it because "she wrote too slow". So why can all of us just write slowly and claim an extra 5 min for every hour of the HSC!!!!
BITCH PLEASE!

 

[ccc123]

There are a lot of people who cheat the special provisions system. Its annoying, but what can be done? One of my friends has an extra 30 mins for all exams because 'she gets back cramps'

 

[sarah889]

Its just discusting, that people out there do this

 

[ccc123]

Its just discusting, that people out there do this

People get really desperate and HSC-centric, and will do anything to maximise their performance.

 

[Aplus]

Don't you need a medical certificate with a doctor's advice to be approved?

 

[ccc123]

Hey can I ask you something are you a lesbian because that would be cool, yeah I have special provisions

Sorry sir whaaa ?

 

[sarah889]

yeah thats my point. you need some sort of evidence.

yer you do and she got hers approved by a phsiotherapist, if she writes too fast her hand "gets sore"

 

[dpospination]

that sounds very bodgey and unfair, cause then anyone can come up and get extra time, think about it, a 3 hour exam, an extra 30 mins. i dont know about u guys but time is GOLD for me in exams, cause it is hard to finsih everything, especially with english essays

 

[your.knee]

just coz your fat! thats not an excuse. i dont think the board would have approved that fatty

Haha!

Anyway, I didn't know you could get special provisions for things like "sore hands" and stuff like that. Theres only a couple people at my school that I know of who have special provisions and I would say they actually need it

 

[Phoenix Fury]

I read for yr 10 Special Provisions students when I was in yr 9. Not one of them were claiming false/minor problems.

I agree with the 'time is gold' thing.

Also, I thought you had to well and trully prove you disability/reason for SP.

SG1991 Makes a very good point below
Don't get me wrong, some people do need it but everyone else who unjustly claims it:

FUCK YOU, CHEATING MOTHERFUCKERS!!!

 

[SG1991]

My girlfriend just got special provisions for her HSC, which means for every half an hour she is entitled to an extra 5 minutes! thats alot when you think about how short for time we are, especially in english. She also has 15 minutes where she can just get up and leave to get a drink and walk around, without this digging into the time she has to complete the exam.

now this is ok, for people who have serious problems, but my girlfriend was only entitled to it because "she wrote too slow". So why can all of us just write slowly and claim an extra 5 min for every hour of the HSC!!!!
BITCH PLEASE!

NB:-She is lying to you!! I know a person who said they "wrote too slow" on their application and they didn't get it. (From its looks of it -your not getting it either" )

As a "so - called cheater" who takes special provisions, I can for fact you that everyone who has special provisions. They say they are cheating but they aren't. They tell you half the story and make it up! In other words, if she has a learning disability she won't tell you. My friends don't know I have a learning disability. When I see my specialists who treats me for my learning disability, during school time , I force them into getting a other doctor who specialises in heads in writing medical cerficate to show my mates. The teachers know but do you thing I want to be judged?!?!?!

 

[SG1991]

well then just stop twisting the truth. i think its more acurate to say that you got special provision because of health issues rather than say its because you fat

If you have trouble understanding something and it happens all the time. Would you always go to the teacher and your friends? How would you feel?

 

[SG1991]

its neither here nor there, but if you must no yes I am
what were the grounds for which you applied for special provisions

How about this?

• A lot of doctors reports, analysising your every move and conditions.
• Feeling like crap (so much stuff is wrong with you)
• Talking to heaps of teachers about getting extra stuff done during lunch. Plus sometimes, they can't be found. Go to a staff room and they can't found. You have interruped their convo and say they mad
• Having a parent, at your school most of the time (my mum needs everything confrimed to her face and on the phone )
• Wondering what's normal to feel or do?

To get special provisions you need to have a million things wrong with you to get. Then you see some mad gf and a bunch of cruel people not understanding whats like to have special provisions in the BOS site.

Lets make a deal. - I'm normal like you (in other words, I don't endure
in sentitive specialists) without special provisions

People with special provisions know what its like to try study like a nerd and get 50%!!!

I know u have to have a learning disability, be blind/deaf to get special provisions.

 

[pritnep]

This issue comes up every HSC year and ever year it ends in the same debate.

The truth is if people have special provisions then they would have a good reason with supporting evidence as to why they have it and they shouldn't be judged for that. Like SG1991 was saying some people make up another reason so they can hide what the real reason behind it is and with the reactions some students have you can understand why.

On another note I hear/read on BOS somewhere it's harder at uni to get special provisions, then for the HSC.

 

[Continuum]

How about this?

• A lot of doctors reports, analysising your every move and conditions.
• Feeling like crap (so much stuff is wrong with you)
• Talking to heaps of teachers about getting extra stuff done during lunch. Plus sometimes, they can't be found. Go to a staff room and they can't found. You have interruped their convo and say they mad
• Having a parent, at your school most of the time (my mum needs everything confrimed to her face and on the phone )
• Wondering what's normal to feel or do?

To get special provisions you need to have a million things wrong with you to get. Then you see some mad gf and a bunch of cruel people not understanding whats like to have special provisions in the BOS site.

Lets make a deal. - I'm normal like you (in other words, I don't endure
in sentitive specialists) without special provisions

People with special provisions know what its like to try study like a nerd and get 50%!!!

I know u have to have a learning disability, be blind/deaf to get special provisions.

Nope, messy writing is enough. I was a scribe for about 2 years and scribed for some HSC exams simply because 'the examiners might not be able to read their handwriting'. To be perfectly honest however, their handwriting was fairly illegible - slow too, though I doubt that that would have gotten them any concessions.

Lots of the people do actually need special provisions though, especially those with learning difficulties. Personally, I reckon it's fine to give people special provisions if they truly need the assistance and not simply because they want an advantage over the others.

 

[Continuum]

when i filled out my application form for special provision i am pretty sure that there was no option 'messy hand writing' on it. also they would have to provide evidence so i dont know how they would have gotten away with that.

Yeah, I don't know about that process so you probably have more knowledge than me about special provisions. I just did scribing as part of the STLA program.

 

[Aerath]

Meh, I'm not completely fussed. I believe in karma and stuff like that - so if they cheat now, I don't think they'd be able to do it later on in life. Same with the "what comes around goes around" sort thing.

 

[michael1990]

My girlfriend just got special provisions for her HSC, which means for every half an hour she is entitled to an extra 5 minutes! thats alot when you think about how short for time we are, especially in english. She also has 15 minutes where she can just get up and leave to get a drink and walk around, without this digging into the time she has to complete the exam.

now this is ok, for people who have serious problems, but my girlfriend was only entitled to it because "she wrote too slow". So why can all of us just write slowly and claim an extra 5 min for every hour of the HSC!!!!
BITCH PLEASE!

You mean for every half hour?

Or every hour she gets 5 minutes?

But anyway. I think we should all say i write too slow.

But how does the doctor decide you write to slow?
Because can't someone just say yeah i write to slow now i want 5 extra minutes etc.?

 

[Aerath]

special provision isn't cheating. although if you are refering to those that play the system then yeah..

Yeah, I meant those who are cheating the system. I have no issues with people who are entitled to special provisions.

Just like the disabled parking thingo...

 

[SG1991]

Hi. FYI I also have a learning disability and got special provision for my hsc and yes i am pretty open about it so yeah. there is no use in saying that it is because of something else as this will only make you seem like more of a cheater. whats the use of covering it up when that is worse than the truth e.g. having a medical condition sounds better than being fat

I agree! However, each person is entitled to how open they are about it! There is the insecurity factor, that needs to be taken into consideration and the bullying factor