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Adult Education ADD rights
It must be frustrating for you (and your professors) to need reminders about accommodation for exams. Perhaps you could ask your disability center to email your professors at the beginning of each term (with your permission) to certify the need for accommodation and ask how they may best assist in providing it for a particular course. Would a professor like to receive an automatic reminder for scheduled exams, or prefer that you speak to them the week before each exam to discuss how to provide accommodation?
Extending time can be a real problem: the professor and/or teaching assistant(s) administering an exam may have other classes, exams or appointments; another class may be scheduled to use the classroom or lecture hall Often arrangements can be made for you to take exams in your disability center (or some other quiet place, such as a faculty member's office or a department library) where you can focus with fewer distractions. While it usually works best if you begin an exam at the scheduled time and tack on the extension, you may be able to arrange to take it at another time, or even split it into sections. The key issue here is maintaining exam security.
It's your responsibility to make arrangements for your accomodation. Keep in mind that professors are busy people, and even busier at exam times, so do it well in advance. Approached with polite and timely requests, professors will usually be willing to go out of their way to meet your need. But taking a college course is a privilege, not a right. A professor may reasonably decline a request for accommodation. (E.g., it can be extremely difficult or impossible to provide accommodation on practical exams; accommodation may not be allowed on certifying exams, etc.) College and university faculty normally have a great deal of scope on how they elect to teach their courses and administer exams. And they may certainly decline to accommodate a late request by a demanding and discourteous student. (That would be someone else, of course.)
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