Marks fo rSPaG GCSE ENglish Lit. & using scribe for dyslexia

[sidneypie]

Can anybody help or point me in the right direction on this one.
As I understand it the marks allocated for spelling, punctuation and grammar in GCSE English Lit. in the May/June exams in 2014 will be 5% of the final total. If you use a scribe that 5% is automatically deducted from your marks. Have I got that right? A friend says she has recently been told by her school that she will lose 25% of her marks for using a scribe, I can't believe this can be right.

Any advice would be much appreciated.

Hi, sorry I don't know if that is correct and don't have any help really BUT if that is correct I find it truly shocking! That surely is discrimination! I hope you find a way around it. X

That's not descrimination at all!! Spelling, punctuation and grammar in English is essential. That's like jumping up and down for a Maths exam having multiplication questions in it because you don't know your times tables!
You can use a laptop to type the answers and so will not be penalised if yout handwriting is illegible.