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I had my second exam today a maths based subject and alot harder than I had expected. Ok so here is how it went.I got to the exam room a few minutes early again so that I could familiarise myself with the reader and invigilator. The invigilator I thought was going to be really stuffy and intimidating but he came over and shook my hand and introduced himself and seemed really nice. The reader was also really friendly and I could tell she had alot of experience. I used an exam paper that I had been using for revision to point out what I would and wouldn't need her to read. I asked her to read all the wordy bits and to just not bother with the mathematical symbols and formulas if I couldn't manage even them there would be no hope for me passing the exam! We agreed that she would read through the entire section A of the paper and that I would choose the first question and then take it from there. So with the invigilator sat directly in front and watching my every move and with the reader sat right behind burning holes into the back of my head we started the exam 5 minutes early.About an hour into the exam one of the disability administrators came in to see that everything was going ok and had the nerve to ask me if I was having fun. Oh yes this is what I do for fun. There wasn't actually to much for the reader to read from the exam paper with it being quite a maths based module. At the end of the exam I asked her to read the question again and then my answer to it so I could see if I answered the right thing. I did spot a couple of mistakes where my answer didn't seem to say what I thought it had and I had enough time to correct those mistakes before my extra time ran out.So far the reader system seems to be working really well for me. It isn't as intimidating as I thought actually it has been LESS intimidating than being in a big exam hall. Another bonus is that I don't get distracted by everything else going on in the exam room. I wish I had used a reader in my previous years exams now. I have another exam on Wednesday nest week wish me luck.