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I do mine in the gym. Although back in gcse's I also did them in the sports hall, the junior hall and the senior hall too. I also did an AS in the dance studio for some reason...

Reply 21

Speedbird2008

Assembly Hall.

:smile:

Reply 22

mildredo

In school most people were in the main hall, but if it was an exam that everyone was doing [maths, english, science, DT] some were split between the boys & girls gyms as well. Though my GCSE Sociology exam was in a classroom hut, because there were only eight or nine of us doing it. :P:

At college they're in the sports hall, in the constantly freezing gym. :rolleyes:

Reply 23

affinity89

Because my school has SATs, Yr 10 mocks, Yr 11 GCSEs, Yr 12 AS and Yr 13 A2 exams they take place pretty much everywhere:
- Main Hall.
- "Sixth form study room".
- Classrooms all over the place.
- Canteen (when things are really bad clash wise).

At high school (where we didn't have a sixth form), they just took place in:
- Main Hall.
- Gym.
- Drama room/studio.
- Classrooms.

=D

Reply 24

Guinny

So far I've been to the local synagogue for French speaking @__@ (it's quieter there - for the recording I suppose...) sports hall for the generic exams and the art room for well, art... :]

The back of the sports hall just happens the to be the hang out for 'let's-hang-around' club, the invigilators does try to shoo them away, but sometimes if you sit on that side of the hall you can hear them quabbling in a mixture of incoherent slang and swear words - does bloody wonders for concentration. *sign*

Reply 25

Champagne Supernova

Assembly Hall, good for english for inspiration etc. bad for english, too distracting for maths!
Gym, generally crap to be honest

do people think that they do better in one exam hall over another if they're in different exam halls? personally i do better in the assembly hall..

Reply 26

naza911

I am normally in the main hall, the biggest one out of the three halls there are, but once of I was in the sports hall, for a maths module.
Usually they only have the pupils who need 'special attention' in the sports hall, because there is less space. Only once have they had to use classrooms for an exam.

Reply 27

lil_miss_rapunzel

For most exams that everyone's doing like English, Maths, etc, we have about 2/3rds of the year in the main hall and the other 1/3rd in the gym, but for option sujects where there aren't as many people doing it all the candidates are generally in the hall. Sometimes though we're in random classrooms if there's an A-level exam/SATs on in the hall/gym.

I much prefer being in the hall, and I am most of the time. It makes it seem more serious than in a classroom and gets me into 'exam mode' if you get what I mean, and it's also warmer than the gym, with less people walking past talking.

Reply 28

Nobacherie

We do ours in the sports hall too. No idea why, we've got two other halls that I don't think are being used. We did our language listenings in classrooms with the whole corridor blocked off.

Reply 29

Wilsonator

secretmessages

In the main hall (can seat about 200 candidates), or on the stage (about 30), or in the gym (about 100).

200?

We had 301 people in the hall for Lit (according to tome table), and their was still spare seats

Reply 30

affinity89

Wilsonator

200?

We had 301 people in the hall for Lit (according to tome table), and their was still spare seats

The main hall at my school was like that. You were hard pushed to get 200 in but there was slightly less than that in each year group anyway so it didn't matter.
=D

Reply 31

Miss Monkey

School it was the sports hall. At uni it's Westminster Central Hall.

Reply 32

eulerwaswrong

either in the gym, sometimes in the sports hall, the assembly hall and we have three small exam rooms upstairs - they are old classrooms that have been converted.

I did most of my GCSEs in the gym as there where lots of people doing them, but now at a level as there are only a few people we do them in the exam rooms. I once did this one further maths paper on my own in like a tiny little office with the invigilator - that was wierd. Just me and him sitting in a tiny office, me one side of the desk, him the other watching me for an hour an a half - really weird

Reply 33

Aleeece123

for ours, most of us are in the main hall, but generally, people doing foundation are in the 6th form centre (im jealous- they have comfy chairs in there)

Reply 34

Howells

We do ours in the gym hall because it's the only hall we've got, and the library mainly :smile:

Sometimes (like today) we have exams in two or three random classrooms of the school as well, which is irritatin as kids always run past and the bell is stupidly loud :frown:

Reply 35

louisepwhu

secretmessages

Ahaha what kind of a gym is that! Birds flying round?!

A rather **** one!
You get used to it in time i suppose. The birds are more quiet than the invigilators lol

Reply 36

Diaz

Hall or Gym.

Gym is urrgly, The hall however is nice and cool, got ac. My school is classy, it is.

Reply 37

adam_1234

If it's an exam with the whole year, eg. English or Maths, they're in the sports hall which doesn't splash out on the luxury of heating.
Smaller exams are usually in the main school hall as it's smaller.

Then language listening exams where we need speakers and stuff are normally in the gym, where it's smaller and not echoey.

Reply 38

u_dun_noe

In our school we use the gym - 200 people, the community lounge -60 people, and the headteacher's office - up to 3 people (for exams like FSMQ and AS maths)

Reply 39

strawberry_princess

We use the gym- can fit the whole year in pretty perfectly (about 250 people)- you wouldn't want any more in there! We have a sports hall the same size though. And 3 dining halls haha wow my school sounds big!