Factoring in the needs of visually impaired students, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has decided to introduce separate question papers for these students without visual elements.
Keeping in mind that visual elements in question papers prove a disadvantage for the visually impaired, the CBSE will offer specially designed question papers for them starting 2011. While the school board was already doing so at senior levels for History, Geography and Economics, in order to enable these students to opt for Science stream, the CBSE will now also offer separate question papers for Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Mathematics.
CBSE already permits visually challenged students to use typewriters/computers for writing their answers. That apart, the examination guidelines say that seating arrangements for dyslexic, blind, physically handicapped and spastic candidates be made on the ground floor as far as possible. Additional time is also given to these students to complete their papers.
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