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My son is in year 11 at a mainstream school.  He does well in class but cannot translate this on to the page - he always puts too little down on the page to answer the question but he is convinced that he has answered it all correctly.  His teachers have been telling him to answer the questions the way they tell him and not the way he does but he will not listen to them because he knows best.  He is very literal and does not seem to understand the need to expand and explain.  It feels exam technique related but this is not covered by any exam accessible issues - they seem to be based around giving him more time which is not helpful when he constantly finishes early!  Does anyone know if there are any tutors that can help him with this?

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  • The teachers need to be, respectfully, informed that they are part of the problem. If they give fuller specifics about what they require in the answer to a question and put more detail into the question, they will get the sort of answer they want. It may be worth pointing out to your son that humouring people is useful, and that while his answers might be narrowly correct, they are not what will gain him full marks. I'm afraid that the world is full of unwritten rules that neurotypicals just accept and take for granted, that autistics find illogical and baffling. If your son can be brought to realise that there are illogical things that just have to be accepted it will help. It might be useful for his teachers to make template answers to certain types of question, where they translate the unwritten requirements into rules that your son can follow. 

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  • The teachers need to be, respectfully, informed that they are part of the problem. If they give fuller specifics about what they require in the answer to a question and put more detail into the question, they will get the sort of answer they want. It may be worth pointing out to your son that humouring people is useful, and that while his answers might be narrowly correct, they are not what will gain him full marks. I'm afraid that the world is full of unwritten rules that neurotypicals just accept and take for granted, that autistics find illogical and baffling. If your son can be brought to realise that there are illogical things that just have to be accepted it will help. It might be useful for his teachers to make template answers to certain types of question, where they translate the unwritten requirements into rules that your son can follow. 

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