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Guidelines For Persons With Disabilities Using A Scribe

1. The document provides guidelines for persons with disabilities using a scribe during online examinations. Candidates must arrange their own scribe at their own cost, and the scribe must not be a candidate for the same exam. 2. Both the candidate and scribe must sign an undertaking confirming the scribe meets eligibility criteria. Candidates using a scribe receive 20 extra minutes for every hour of the exam. 3. Candidates with locomotor disability or cerebral palsy receive an extra 20 minutes per hour of exam. Visually impaired candidates may view text in magnified font and also receive 20 extra minutes per hour.

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Guidelines For Persons With Disabilities Using A Scribe

1. The document provides guidelines for persons with disabilities using a scribe during online examinations. Candidates must arrange their own scribe at their own cost, and the scribe must not be a candidate for the same exam. 2. Both the candidate and scribe must sign an undertaking confirming the scribe meets eligibility criteria. Candidates using a scribe receive 20 extra minutes for every hour of the exam. 3. Candidates with locomotor disability or cerebral palsy receive an extra 20 minutes per hour of exam. Visually impaired candidates may view text in magnified font and also receive 20 extra minutes per hour.

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GUIDELINES FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES USING A SCRIBE

The visually impaired candidates and candidates whose writing speed is adversely affected permanently for any
reason can use their own scribe at their cost during the online examination, subject to limits as given below. In all
such cases where a scribe is used, the following rules will apply:

(i) The candidate will have to arrange his/her own scribe at his/her own cost or they may make a
request in the online application for providing of scribe by ESIC .
(ii) The scribe arranged by the candidate should not be a candidate for the same examination. If
violation of the above is detected at any stage of the process, candidature of both the candidate
and the scribe will be cancelled. Candidates eligible for and who wish to use the services of a
scribe in the examination should invariably carefully indicate the same in the online application
form. Any subsequent request may not be favorably entertained.
(iii) A person acting as a scribe for one candidate cannot be a scribe for another candidate.
(iv) The scribe may be from any academic stream.
(v) Both the candidate as well as scribe will have to give a suitable undertaking confirming that the
scribe fulfils all the stipulated eligibility criteria for a scribe mentioned above. Further in case it later
transpires that he/she did not fulfill any laid down eligibility criteria or suppressed material facts the
candidature of the applicant will stand cancelled, irrespective of the result of the online examination.
(vi) Those candidates who use a scribe shall be eligible for compensatory time of 20 minutes for every
hour of the examination or as otherwise advised. Scribe should not answer on his/her own. Any
such behaviour observed will result in cancellation of candidature.
(vii) Only candidates registered for compensatory time will be allowed such concessions since
compensatory time given to candidates shall be system based, it shall not be possible for the test
conducting agency to allow such time if he / she is not registered for the same. Candidates not
registered for compensatory time shall not be allowed such concessions.

Guidelines for Candidates with Locomotor Disability and Cerebral Palsy


A compensatory time of twenty minutes per hour or otherwise advised shall be permitted for the candidates with
locomotor disability and cerebral palsy where dominant (writing) extremity is affected to the extent of slowing the
performance of function (minimum of 40%impairment).

Guidelines for Visually Impaired candidates


• Visually Impaired candidates (who suffer from not less than 40% of disability) may opt to view the
contents of the test in magnified font and all such candidates will be eligible for compensatory time of 20
minutes for every hour or otherwise advised of examination.
• The facility of viewing the contents of the test in magnifying font will not be available to Visually Impaired
candidates who use the services of a Scribe for the examination
These guidelines are subject to change in terms of GOI guidelines/ clarifications, if any, from time to time.

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