Access Arrangements and Psychological Assessment
Level the playing field for classes and exams through
access arrangements or explore psychological assessments for
a disability diagnosis.
Exams and Classroom Access Arrangements
Effectively participate and demonstrate your knowledge in class and exams without barriers. Explore adjustments to course instruction, learning materials or assessments for barrier-free learning.
- Accommodation letter from your previous institution (if applicable).
- Medical or psychological assessment report.
- For extra time during exams, provide a full psychological assessment report dated within the past year (excluding physical, vision, and hearing-related conditions).
If you possess an existing report and are unclear about its validity or wish to discuss access arrangements further, contact us.
Funded Review or New Psychological Assessments
Pursue funded review psychological assessment, for applying access arrangements, accessing learning support services, or obtaining assistive technology.
Students who suspect they have a disability can also seek funded assessments. However, if no disability is diagnosed, they will be responsible for covering the assessment costs.
- Full-time NUS Students.
- Singaporeans or Permanent Residents.
- In-house Clinical and Health Psychology Centre (CHPC)
- External assessment centers.
- Obtain the cost of assessment, which can be in the form of an email document displaying the cost or a quotation.
Please inform the psychologist of the required access arrangements, which should be detailed in the assessment report. For example, when applying for extra time, please specify the requested duration. If you need further assistance, contact us to discuss your specific requirements.
Common Access Arrangements
- Extra time - specifying the required additional time
- Rest Breaks
- Low-distraction room or separate room
- Preferred sitting arrangements increase focus
- Lecture notes to be given beforehand
- Allowed to record lectures
- Alternative assessment to class participation/oral presentation
- Alternative assessment to group work/project
- Captions for pre-recorded materials
- Time-sensitive graded class participation facilitated through collaborative software
- Use of a laptop for exams
- Use of assistive technology such as read-aloud software
- Larger font size and exam papers
- Exam papers printed on a single side
- Two sets of exam papers
- Use of scribe
- Alternative assessment to class participation
- Alternative assessment to oral presentation and exams
- Extra time for class participation and role-plays.
- Captions for pre-recorded materials.
- Wear hearing aids in exam venue.
- Time-sensitive graded class participation facilitated through collaborative software.
- Larger font size and exam papers.
- Use of assistive technology such as read-aloud software
- Pre-allocation of courses
- Use of a laptop for exams instead of typing.
- Speech-to-text software for typing.
- Pre-allocation of courses
- Use of scribe