Writing outside the lines

You can't write outside of the lines as it won't be marked - they scan the papers in and any little annotations or arrows you've done won't be seen.

If you run out of space, you put your hand up, and the invigilator will come and give you some special exam board lined paper. You write in the margin of this paper the question number, and then you continue to answer the question on this paper.

At the end of the exam, you will be given treasury tags to attach this paper to your exam.

So I heard that if I answer a question, for example in physics, and go over the number of lines, they won't mark what is outside of the space given. I've also heard if you draw out arrows and write a tiny "ANSWER CONTINUED BELOW" on the line, it does get marked.

So can you go outside the lines or will there be a problem? I'm doing the exams with CIE thanks a bunch!

You can't write outside of the lines as it won't be marked - they scan the papers in and any little annotations or arrows you've done won't be seen.

If you run out of space, you put your hand up, and the invigilator will come and give you some special exam board lined paper. You write in the margin of this paper the question number, and then you continue to answer the question on this paper.

At the end of the exam, you will be given treasury tags to attach this paper to your exam.

I am an AQA examiner. This is the biggest myth surrounding exams. Answers are scanned in the form of 'clips' and marked by us electronically. But if the examiner can see that the writing continues out of the box then they can either (a) select an option to see the entire script scanned in its entirely, like a facsimile or (b) if (a) doesn't work, escalate the paper to a specialist marker. The one thing they do not do is simply not mark whatever is outside the box!

It's best to keep your text in the box/lines because it them means nothing has to be escalated or faffed about with. The lines are there for a reason. If you find you are regularly needing to write outside the lines/box, this is usually indicative of poor exam technique - the boxes/lines are sized such that there is enough space to write a 'perfect' answer without waffle and repetition.

I am an AQA examiner. This is the biggest myth surrounding exams. Answers are scanned in the form of 'clips' and marked by us electronically. But if the examiner can see that the writing continues out of the box then they can either (a) select an option to see the entire script scanned in its entirely, like a facsimile or (b) if (a) doesn't work, escalate the paper to a specialist marker. The one thing they do not do is simply not mark whatever is outside the box!

It's best to keep your text in the box/lines because it them means nothing has to be escalated or faffed about with. The lines are there for a reason. If you find you are regularly needing to write outside the lines/box, this is usually indicative of poor exam technique - the boxes/lines are sized such that there is enough space to write a 'perfect' answer without waffle and repetition.

I am doing my GCSEs at the moment and I'm super worried that my answers will be discarded as lots of my answers continued below the lines provided. My hand writing is super big and spread out so this is always a problem for me. I never like to ask for more paper as it takes up time and I'm always worried it won't be clear which question I'm referring to on this paper. On the exam paper, will my answers still be marked even if it said "turn over for the next question" and I wrote like a bit below and before this? If not I have failed OMG. Also, sometimes I crossed out an answer and rewrote it below. Will this be marked? Im super scared now ahhh. Thanks for the help.

I am an AQA examiner. This is the biggest myth surrounding exams. Answers are scanned in the form of 'clips' and marked by us electronically. But if the examiner can see that the writing continues out of the box then they can either (a) select an option to see the entire script scanned in its entirely, like a facsimile or (b) if (a) doesn't work, escalate the paper to a specialist marker. The one thing they do not do is simply not mark whatever is outside the box!

It's best to keep your text in the box/lines because it them means nothing has to be escalated or faffed about with. The lines are there for a reason. If you find you are regularly needing to write outside the lines/box, this is usually indicative of poor exam technique - the boxes/lines are sized such that there is enough space to write a 'perfect' answer without waffle and repetition.

I am an AQA examiner. This is the biggest myth surrounding exams. Answers are scanned in the form of 'clips' and marked by us electronically. But if the examiner can see that the writing continues out of the box then they can either (a) select an option to see the entire script scanned in its entirely, like a facsimile or (b) if (a) doesn't work, escalate the paper to a specialist marker. The one thing they do not do is simply not mark whatever is outside the box!

It's best to keep your text in the box/lines because it them means nothing has to be escalated or faffed about with. The lines are there for a reason. If you find you are regularly needing to write outside the lines/box, this is usually indicative of poor exam technique - the boxes/lines are sized such that there is enough space to write a 'perfect' answer without waffle and repetition.

I am an AQA examiner. This is the biggest myth surrounding exams. Answers are scanned in the form of 'clips' and marked by us electronically. But if the examiner can see that the writing continues out of the box then they can either (a) select an option to see the entire script scanned in its entirely, like a facsimile or (b) if (a) doesn't work, escalate the paper to a specialist marker. The one thing they do not do is simply not mark whatever is outside the box!

It's best to keep your text in the box/lines because it them means nothing has to be escalated or faffed about with. The lines are there for a reason. If you find you are regularly needing to write outside the lines/box, this is usually indicative of poor exam technique - the boxes/lines are sized such that there is enough space to write a 'perfect' answer without waffle and repetition.

Hello, so If I wrote out side the box, onto the blank paper, but within the border of where it says ‘ do not write her’, there is a possibility it won’t be marked?

I am doing my GCSEs at the moment and I'm super worried that my answers will be discarded as lots of my answers continued below the lines provided. My hand writing is super big and spread out so this is always a problem for me. I never like to ask for more paper as it takes up time and I'm always worried it won't be clear which question I'm referring to on this paper. On the exam paper, will my answers still be marked even if it said "turn over for the next question" and I wrote like a bit below and before this? If not I have failed OMG. Also, sometimes I crossed out an answer and rewrote it below. Will this be marked? Im super scared now ahhh. Thanks for the help.