Hi Mrs. Slack,
I apologize ahead of time for the essay. I’m trying to keep it directly to the point, but I tend to babble. I just wanted to talk to you about something. I talked to a couple of people and they encouraged me it wouldn't hurt to talk to you about this specific issue. I’m one of the students who has special accommodation to take tests in other locations than the classroom. I have special accommodation testing for multiple reasons. One of the big ones is that noises, even something as small as papers shuffling, will cause me to lose focus.
I've struggled with that for a while. I really appreciate the fact that the school honors my special accommodations. What gets frustrating is the fact that a lot of the testing areas are right by locations that are rather loud. I think the quietest places I've ever taken a test was your office and most commonly the horse room. The horse room isn't always as quiet, but it’s quiet enough I can focus on the test. …show more content…
Today, while I was taking my clin med III final, I was put in the conference room. The issue with that is there is someone's office nearby who I can hear talking almost all the time. It's almost as if they're in the room with me.
I don't expect every little thing to be accommodated, especially when it’s kind of impossible to shut out all noise in general. But when it's affecting me to the point where I can’t comprehend what I’m reading, I feel that I need to speak up. I felt like I was reading a foreign language today when taking my final. I studied quite a bit and I know that I know the material.
I obviously don’t know my grade yet, but I feel like I didn’t do as well on that final as I could have. At this point, I’d like to ask for possible suggestions or solutions to how we could fix this for my last final and for the future. I apologize again for the essay.
Mary
I apologize ahead of time for the essay. I’m trying to keep it directly to the point, but I tend to babble. I just wanted to talk to you about something. I talked to a couple of people and they encouraged me it wouldn't hurt to talk to you about this specific issue. I’m one of the students who has special accommodation to take tests in other locations than the classroom. I have special accommodation testing for multiple reasons. One of the big ones is that noises, even something as small as papers shuffling, will cause me to lose focus.
I've struggled with that for a while. I really appreciate the fact that the school honors my special accommodations. What gets frustrating is the fact that a lot of the testing areas are right by locations that are rather loud. I think the quietest places I've ever taken a test was your office and most commonly the horse room. The horse room isn't always as quiet, but it’s quiet enough I can focus on the test. …show more content…
Today, while I was taking my clin med III final, I was put in the conference room. The issue with that is there is someone's office nearby who I can hear talking almost all the time. It's almost as if they're in the room with me.
I don't expect every little thing to be accommodated, especially when it’s kind of impossible to shut out all noise in general. But when it's affecting me to the point where I can’t comprehend what I’m reading, I feel that I need to speak up. I felt like I was reading a foreign language today when taking my final. I studied quite a bit and I know that I know the material.
I obviously don’t know my grade yet, but I feel like I didn’t do as well on that final as I could have. At this point, I’d like to ask for possible suggestions or solutions to how we could fix this for my last final and for the future. I apologize again for the essay.
Mary