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invigilation problems?

just feel like ranting about annoying invigilation rules- wondering how it is for others

- not being allowed to take water in
- getting about a mouthful of water in a cup when i ask for it
- it taking 40minutes for someone to arrive to 'escort' me to the toilet when i asked (kinda embarassing)
- invigilators getting angry when you sit in the wrong seat as if you did it on purpose.

and not being allowed to leave a GCSE language exam early- but no more of that.

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omg in our exams we have been allowed water but have to leave the bottle under our desk. urs sounds a bit harsh!
Reply 2
Our invigilators gave us an answer booklet yesterday but forgot to put out question booklets, and expected us to start. Plus our exam was 15 minutes late yesterday because they couldn't set up on time.
Reply 3
In our third Psychology paper yesterday (PYA2 for me) we were told to put our other paper on the floor and pick this one up. And we were never told to start again: so I was sitting there for 5 odd mins before I asked. With those 5 mins I could have had the time to reattempt a question I did a bit watery. Meh.
Reply 4
Yeh we are allowed bottles of water even on the table but it has to be clear. Iv seen people with notes on there hands too. The tables r really close people were squeezing through them lol
Reply 5
No water, it's a statutory right! Although some bright spark 2 years ago wrote formulae on their label so now bottles have to be label-free.

Yesterday in my English Lit exam, I was assigned a back seat and I thought, phew I'm free from invigilators clicking past me and peering over my work.
I was very wrong.
There was one random seat next to mine and guess what? An invigilator placed herself beside me for the ENTIRE 2 hours breathing like a horse, daydreaming at my page. I wanted to ask if she could move but they'd probably think I had something to hide (open text - me paranoid about too many notes).

I blame her if I receive a crap result.
Reply 6
TheBellJar
No water, it's a statutory right! Although some bright spark 2 years ago wrote formulae on their label so now bottles have to be label-free.

Yesterday in my English Lit exam, I was assigned a back seat and I thought, phew I'm free from invigilators clicking past me and peering over my work.
I was very wrong.
There was one random seat next to mine and guess what? An invigilator placed herself beside me for the ENTIRE 2 hours breathing like a horse, daydreaming at my page. I wanted to ask if she could move but they'd probably think I had something to hide (open text - me paranoid about too many notes).

I blame her if I receive a crap result.


Eek I'd hate that, I would get so paranoid, would barely be able to focus :frown:
xj9x
Yeh we are allowed bottles of water even on the table but it has to be clear. Iv seen people with notes on there hands too. The tables r really close people were squeezing through them lol


bbc recently quoted of this forum...dont want them doing it again!
Reply 8
wat?
When I was doing GCSEs we had this invigilator with 3-inch heels who'd pace up and down the exam hall. Bloody annoying :mad:
Reply 10
No water!??? I always have water, i've even had wine gums before.
However today they did make me take my hat off, which totally denotes the point of wearing it when having a bad hair day. What, did they think i was going to write my notes all over it and casually whip it off every 5 minutes to pretend to admire the stitching work.
Then they made a point of making sure we didn't have iPods or anything on us, as of course no-one would have noticed small echo-ing voices coming from my back pocket talking about gas exchanges or anything.
One of the invigilators today keep smiling at us all and trying to talk to us about her 'huge work load' this week, bless her.
Reply 11
sitting at the very front of the exam hall is the worst, because the desk where the invigilators keep everything is at the front. and if they cant be bothered to walk up and down, they all gather at the front and have a bloody mothers meeting. very distracting
Reply 12
once you get to university you realise what fascists school invigilators are. We can go to the toilet without supervision, can actually have water and food on our desks and don't have to put up with all that bloody walking up and down along the hall. don't really understand why there are such differences at school. During my exams at school we usuall had teachers invigilating who were fairly relaxed but during my a2 exams they had to get outside invigilators in and they were completlely power crazed obsessives. one women made a complaint to the board against me because i used an ink eraser and supposedly argued with her in an offensive manner.. the day of my final exam i received a letter from the school saying that the board would disqualify me from all of my exams (3/4 subjects were done with that board) so i st my final exams in tears and was told my the senior staff that both the invigialtor nad the exams office were in the wrong and the exam board would throw out any such complaint... what muppets eh!
Reply 13
Our take forever to give papers, talk to much and dont let us just get on with it!
They make a mess of mixing papers, we have to wait!
It pisses me off because some people get nervous, admittedly i do a little too but anyway they moan at students arriving late but then they do too.
Reply 14
Oh I hate how us sitting the exam have to be completely silent, but the invigilators are allowed to have a little chat, pace up and down, shuffle about with question booklets etc! Does my head in!
Sammi22
Oh I hate how us sitting the exam have to be completely silent, but the invigilators are allowed to have a little chat, pace up and down, shuffle about with question booklets etc! Does my head in!



During my English exam this invigilator was standing right next to me and kept hissing to another one, IT WAS SO DAMN ANNOYING AAAAAARGH!!! :mad:

So I said to her, can you please shut up because I can't concentrate with you guys talking nonstop

AND SHE GAVE ME SUCH AN EVIL STARE AND MOVED ME TO ANOTHER DESK WHILE SHE CONTINUED TALKING :mad:

That was absolutely outrageous and I plan to complain to the SQA.
We've had an invigilator who just freakily smiled when he talked, it was quite hilarious and paedophilic, since we were all girls and he was a man.

"You must :smile: spend more time :smile: on section B :smile: since this :smile: gains you :smile: more marks :smile:."

We also had one who can't do maths properly saying that we had five minutes left when in fact we had twelve and another one who lost her voicebox to smoking so she speaks through her oesophagus... I was sitting at the beginning of the exam waiting for her to tell us to start, but in fact she had already said it!
Reply 17
I asked for more paper during the Lit exam the other day. I was half way through a good sentence and I was trying so hard not to forget it. But the lady took 2 minutes to get me some paper, which is a lifetime in an exam!
MathematicalMind
omg in our exams we have been allowed water but have to leave the bottle under our desk. urs sounds a bit harsh!


o yeah- i remember that from last year- so annoying- just because- why??? some of the rules are just annoying because they make no sense and i dont understand why centers want to invent yet more rules to follow on top of the ones set by the boards
emom100
once you get to university you realise what fascists school invigilators are. We can go to the toilet without supervision, can actually have water and food on our desks and don't have to put up with all that bloody walking up and down along the hall. don't really understand why there are such differences at school. During my exams at school we usuall had teachers invigilating who were fairly relaxed but during my a2 exams they had to get outside invigilators in and they were completlely power crazed obsessives. one women made a complaint to the board against me because i used an ink eraser and supposedly argued with her in an offensive manner.. the day of my final exam i received a letter from the school saying that the board would disqualify me from all of my exams (3/4 subjects were done with that board) so i st my final exams in tears and was told my the senior staff that both the invigialtor nad the exams office were in the wrong and the exam board would throw out any such complaint... what muppets eh!


what so all this nuisance with the invigilators is over once we leave school?? thankyou! thank god!!

but omg that sounds horrible! poor you for having to go through that!! I cant believe how unsympathetic some people are- i would bend over backwards for anyone who had an exam- theyre so stressful. you should coplain about the invigilitors!

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