Examania
IT’s really time I should update this blog.
I’ve just ended my exams. Actually it’s already been a week since then. There’s some things I’ve noticed people do during the exams which I don’t quite understand. Like for example, before we start the papers, the chief examiner would always remind us, “Please ensure that you do not have any exam-related documents on your table.” I mean is there really a need to inform us about that? We all know it’s a closed-book examination. Is it an effective method to deter anyone from cheating? “Ok. You got me. I am going to keep my notes away from the table now.”
Besides that, for all of the papers I’ve done, I have always struggle to finish them and I can’t help but to notice there’s some students who can leave the examination hall early. Ok they probably have finished their papers fast but are they really that confident they can find no mistakes at all? What is more important than passing up a good paper during this exam period? “Alright, I have to go now. I am actually late for a lunch appointment.”
Of course, I am delighted to see them leave early. “Go by all means. Don’t waste your time checking the papers. Enjoy yourself outside.”
Another thing is, without fail, there’s always people who need to go to the toilet. It’s something that has never occurred to me. I would want to maximize my time answering the questions to perfection and there are people who think they have all the time in the world to do so. Hello, when the clock starts ticking, we should unload the information from our brains and not the urea in your bladder.
What have they been drinking while doing the questions? 1.5 litres of coke? Everyone brings in their 500ml of water bottles and these people bring what? tumblers of water and go gulp, gulp, gulp? Or what kind of bladders do they have? Those with the size of a peanut? I don’t get it.
While I was in a deep thought of how to tackle the paper, I hate it when the examiner would go to the microphone and say things like, “Sorry for the interuptions but can you all please turn to question 39 on page 16? Take note that the unit “KG” should be in small letters, not capital letters.”
Of course we know all it should be in small letters!! Is there any difference anyway?!
Thanks for wasting 2 minutes of my time. And the worse part is the examiners do not compensate us for these interruptions. Firstly, the printing error is their mistake and then wasting our time disturbing our focused mental states in the exams and all at our expense!!
And when the time’s up, the chief examiner would order, “Pens down!” which all of us would oblige. I’ve noticed some students would put their pens down, then start flipping through their papers and checking through them. Isn’t it like the worst time to check your papers?
So what if you have found an error, is there anything you can do about it? Nothing. I say, just drop your pens, close your booklets and leave it to the examiners to collect them. You’ve done your best already, my friends.
There’s another incident when this ang-moh student left his whole OTA sheet blank and claimed to have written the MCQ answers in the booklet. Then I would pose him a question. “Do you think the OTA sheet is there for you to wipe your backside?”
-doubleU
I’ve just ended my exams. Actually it’s already been a week since then. There’s some things I’ve noticed people do during the exams which I don’t quite understand. Like for example, before we start the papers, the chief examiner would always remind us, “Please ensure that you do not have any exam-related documents on your table.” I mean is there really a need to inform us about that? We all know it’s a closed-book examination. Is it an effective method to deter anyone from cheating? “Ok. You got me. I am going to keep my notes away from the table now.”
Besides that, for all of the papers I’ve done, I have always struggle to finish them and I can’t help but to notice there’s some students who can leave the examination hall early. Ok they probably have finished their papers fast but are they really that confident they can find no mistakes at all? What is more important than passing up a good paper during this exam period? “Alright, I have to go now. I am actually late for a lunch appointment.”
Of course, I am delighted to see them leave early. “Go by all means. Don’t waste your time checking the papers. Enjoy yourself outside.”
Another thing is, without fail, there’s always people who need to go to the toilet. It’s something that has never occurred to me. I would want to maximize my time answering the questions to perfection and there are people who think they have all the time in the world to do so. Hello, when the clock starts ticking, we should unload the information from our brains and not the urea in your bladder.
What have they been drinking while doing the questions? 1.5 litres of coke? Everyone brings in their 500ml of water bottles and these people bring what? tumblers of water and go gulp, gulp, gulp? Or what kind of bladders do they have? Those with the size of a peanut? I don’t get it.
While I was in a deep thought of how to tackle the paper, I hate it when the examiner would go to the microphone and say things like, “Sorry for the interuptions but can you all please turn to question 39 on page 16? Take note that the unit “KG” should be in small letters, not capital letters.”
Of course we know all it should be in small letters!! Is there any difference anyway?!
Thanks for wasting 2 minutes of my time. And the worse part is the examiners do not compensate us for these interruptions. Firstly, the printing error is their mistake and then wasting our time disturbing our focused mental states in the exams and all at our expense!!
And when the time’s up, the chief examiner would order, “Pens down!” which all of us would oblige. I’ve noticed some students would put their pens down, then start flipping through their papers and checking through them. Isn’t it like the worst time to check your papers?
So what if you have found an error, is there anything you can do about it? Nothing. I say, just drop your pens, close your booklets and leave it to the examiners to collect them. You’ve done your best already, my friends.
There’s another incident when this ang-moh student left his whole OTA sheet blank and claimed to have written the MCQ answers in the booklet. Then I would pose him a question. “Do you think the OTA sheet is there for you to wipe your backside?”
-doubleU
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