I'm currently a supervisor for some Year 12 High School exams. My job is to prepare the question and answer sheets for the students, collect them when the exam is over and watch them suffer for 2-3 hours.
It may seem like boring work, but its not that bad. I get a huge chance to daydream during that time and I like helping the students with certain questions. Keyword there: CERTAIN. I don't help them at all with the answers. I only answer questions like "Do I use a new page for this question?" or "Do I do question 1 or 2 or both?" or "Can I use the toilet?"
Now, sometimes the poor student run out of time and misses their chance to complete a question. We tell them to mark down as "Not Attempted". It sucks but rules are rules.
We allow students to leave after an hour IF they feel like they have done enough work (we also stop letting them out 15 minutes before the end of the exam to stop disruption. If they finish during that time, we supervisors check their work, make sure they have got the correct pages and questions written down, sign them off and they are free.
Don't care.
Today was Ancient History, a 3 hour exam. 19 students.
After exactly one hour, a student put her hand up.
She said she was done.
Every single page she was given had "Not Attempted" written on them.
She didn't care.
She waited an hour, doing nothing.
Sadly, we can't force them to write something. They are told to write as much as they can. We ask if that was she wanted to write.
Yep. She didn't care about this subject.
She was signed out and she left.
Later, we found out from the teacher that she didn't take her lesson seriously and didn't care at all, among some of the other students who rushed, wrote "Not attempted" on some of their questions or basically wrote a sentence where a paragraph was expected.
Course... this was written down... so she won't be skipping away with-out consequence...
This didn't stop me from weeping for my generation. (I had only finished year 12 last year).
Bonus story!
A student put up their hand to be signed out. I looked at his papers and saw he had missed a question. I pointed this out and he was a little surprised, diving back into it and completing that question... then checking all his papers twice to make sure he didn't miss anything else.
He thank me a ton for letting him know he missed a question. He looked really happy.
I told him "No worries".
It may seem like boring work, but its not that bad. I get a huge chance to daydream during that time and I like helping the students with certain questions. Keyword there: CERTAIN. I don't help them at all with the answers. I only answer questions like "Do I use a new page for this question?" or "Do I do question 1 or 2 or both?" or "Can I use the toilet?"
Now, sometimes the poor student run out of time and misses their chance to complete a question. We tell them to mark down as "Not Attempted". It sucks but rules are rules.
We allow students to leave after an hour IF they feel like they have done enough work (we also stop letting them out 15 minutes before the end of the exam to stop disruption. If they finish during that time, we supervisors check their work, make sure they have got the correct pages and questions written down, sign them off and they are free.
Don't care.
Today was Ancient History, a 3 hour exam. 19 students.
After exactly one hour, a student put her hand up.
She said she was done.
Every single page she was given had "Not Attempted" written on them.
She didn't care.
She waited an hour, doing nothing.
Sadly, we can't force them to write something. They are told to write as much as they can. We ask if that was she wanted to write.
Yep. She didn't care about this subject.
She was signed out and she left.
Later, we found out from the teacher that she didn't take her lesson seriously and didn't care at all, among some of the other students who rushed, wrote "Not attempted" on some of their questions or basically wrote a sentence where a paragraph was expected.
Course... this was written down... so she won't be skipping away with-out consequence...
This didn't stop me from weeping for my generation. (I had only finished year 12 last year).
Bonus story!
A student put up their hand to be signed out. I looked at his papers and saw he had missed a question. I pointed this out and he was a little surprised, diving back into it and completing that question... then checking all his papers twice to make sure he didn't miss anything else.
He thank me a ton for letting him know he missed a question. He looked really happy.
I told him "No worries".
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