SEBA to introduce question papers in Braille for visually impaired students

STAFF REPORTER

GUWAHATI: The Board of Secondary Education, Assam (SEBA) has decided to introduce question papers in Braille for the visually impaired students who appear in the High School Leaving Certificate (HSLC) examination every year, in a phased manner.

The Board, last year, started the process with the question paper on General Science. The General Mathematics paper is expected to be printed in the Braille system for the HSLC examination in 2020. This step will help in doing away with the inconvenience being faced by the visually impaired students, who take the help of scribes to write their papers. “The students will have their usual question papers apart from the Braille papers. Over 10 visually impaired candidates are appearing for the HSLC examinations this year,” a source in SEBA said. The SEBA does not want to make any sudden changes by replacing the normal question papers with Braille. The new system has been introduced for the added convenience of the candidates. Other facilities that would remain intact include IX-standard scribes to help them write the answers and the additional one-hour timing apart from the usual three-hours, the source added.

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