The Dyscalculia Forum

Posted by Murex on December 20 2008 03:34 AM

I feel your pain. I take my general GREs in a couple of weeks. All that math, under pressure, and an adaptive test. OMG, technology totally used for evil.

I've spent the last two months practicing and practicing and I learn new things every week, like permutations and combination, then I forget them by the following week!

I don't expect to do really well, but a mediocre performance would simply thrill me.

Posted by twistedxkiss on December 23 2008 12:36 PM

There isn't a math section on the LSAT, to my knowledge that test is almost tailor made for a dyscalculic. The sections are reading comprehension, logical reasoning, analytical reasoning, and a writing sample.

The only thing that is going to be a major problem for me is writing the sample legibly (I have dysgraphia), and digital clocks are not allowed in the testing center, so I have to come up with a way to watch my time. You can't just guess how much time you have on a test as time intensive as that.

Posted by justfoundout on December 24 2008 06:29 PM

12/24/08
This isn't about the LSAT, but I was thinking the other day about a different idea for a clock-reading invention. (I can read both digital and face clocks.) I was thinking that when someone with that 'clock problem' wants to figure out something, like the time for test that you're talking about, or maybe when to leave home to be someplace on time, that it might help to have the hours color coded. This should be 'programable', just like an alarm clock is programable. My idea is that, rather than having a normal 'timer',... here it's easier if I write an 'example'. Say, you have three hours for a test. The first 'hour' should be 'green', the second 'yellow', and the third 'red'. There just has to be a more user friendly way for dyscalculics with the 'clock problem' to be able to tell time and to pace themselves. It shouldn't be rocket science for someone to make a cute, user-friendly clock that can be easily consulted without having to do math every time the person looks at it. - jus'

Edited by justfoundout on December 24 2008 06:31 PM

Posted by twistedxkiss on December 24 2008 07:33 PM

justfoundout wrote:
12/24/08
This isn't about the LSAT, but I was thinking the other day about a different idea for a clock-reading invention. (I can read both digital and face clocks.) I was thinking that when someone with that 'clock problem' wants to figure out something, like the time for test that you're talking about, or maybe when to leave home to be someplace on time, that it might help to have the hours color coded. This should be 'programable', just like an alarm clock is programable. My idea is that, rather than having a normal 'timer',... here it's easier if I write an 'example'. Say, you have three hours for a test. The first 'hour' should be 'green', the second 'yellow', and the third 'red'. There just has to be a more user friendly way for dyscalculics with the 'clock problem' to be able to tell time and to pace themselves. It shouldn't be rocket science for someone to make a cute, user-friendly clock that can be easily consulted without having to do math every time the person looks at it. - jus'

That works for the hour, but not the minutes. I can guess the hour so long as the hand isn't right in the middle, then I get confused because I have to judge by where the minute hand is. It's the minute hand that confuses me.

Posted by justfoundout on December 24 2008 08:42 PM

12/24/08
I see. Then, maybe the whole (say, for example) three hours could (besides being color-coded) have a sort of 'sweep' look about them. There should (maybe) just be one 'hand'. As it passes the markers, the color should 'dim', indicating that that portion has already passed. And there should be a reading in 'words' that says "10 minutes are left remaining". I'd have to draw a picture of what I'm thinking, but maybe what I've written is enough. - jus'