Jun
02
It's already the final week of the exam period of this school where I'm at now. That means, I have another 2 more days for invigilation. Not to forget the pile of essays that are waiting patiently on my table that need to be marked.
Speaking of exam, it is undeniably could evoke myriad feelings for everybody (including me!). I guess exam is school's foremost servant-fiend and everybody's ruthless foe! Agree or not? Well, whatever it is, obviously those who excelled in the exam would be justifiably proud of their achievement whereas those less fortunate may try to find various reasons to deride it. *wink* At its heart, exam is definitely one of the tools utilised to gauge learning, or the lack of it. To put it simpler, exam is established to quantify academic achievement.
Ok. Enough. Ain't gonna bla-bla about exam in this post. What I want to share here is the experience that I had during exam invigilation. I noticed a handful of the students utilised so many tricks to cheat during the exam. I find it funny because it actually reminded me of schooling years in which I cheated during monthly tests (not major examination of course!). Basically, I know (roughly) the students' tricks because I've been in their situation once! *Grin*
Some of the tricks used by students during my invigilation:-
- Touching certain parts of the face. Apparently, those parts represent the alphabet for the MCQ questions. Nose for A. Lips for B. Ear for C and cheek for D. Gotcha!
- This is the common trick used by students that is using the rubber as medium for exchanging answers. Upper secondary students would use the scientific calculator. Gotcha!
- Another ancient trick - cutting the paper into tiny pieces and passing it around. Lame! Gotcha!
- I call this the "giraffe" trick. They will stretch their neck to the maximum level and if it is not enough they will also lift their butt a little bit so that they get to see their friend's answer. Gotcha!
- This one is infamous but done by students. They will purposely walk to the front/back pretending like he/she would want to ask for permission to go to the loo but apparently the trick done is by taking a glimpse at their friends' paper while walking to the front/back. Gotcha!
So far, that's the only tricks that I managed to "detect". It's somehow funny to see students feeling restless for not being able to copy/cheat during my invigilation and because of that students unanimously called me "cikgu mata helang/cikgu cctv". Lol...
Ok gotta go. Off to exam invigilation. Beware! Hahahaha....
This post reminds me of my school days last time. Funny! Haha