Invigilator Training

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Invigilator Training
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Examination Cycle

• Coursework Mark Sheets
• Stationery and Exam Papers
• Equipment
• Seating plans
• Invigilators
• Dispatch of Scripts
• Results
• Enquiries

• Estimated Entries
• Pre-released Material
• Entries
• Clashes
• Entry Statements
• Estimated Grades
• Exam Timetable

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Course Objectives

• Have a clear understanding of the Invigilators
  role and the kind of tasks you may be required to
  perform
• Feel more confident in dealing with unexpected
  circumstances
• Be able to ask for more help/training where
  needed and identify future training needs
• Be able to do your job more effectively
• Know the examination procedures and policies of
  your school
• Meet future colleagues and members of staff
• There will be plenty of opportunity for questions
  throughout the session

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Invigilation and the Instructions for the Conduct
of Exams Booklet
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Exam Room

• Desks must be 1.25 metres apart from the centre
  of the chairs
• The room should have
• no posters which may aid candidates (cover up)
• visible clocks all showing the same time
• copies of the ICE, seating plan and invigilator
  record warning to candidate posters inside and
  out
• any necessary equipment - calculators

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Starting the Exam

• Candidates should be under exam conditions from
  the moment they enter the room, there should be a
  system of checking identity.
• They should not bring any mobiles in at all.
• The papers should be opened in the exam room.
• No unauthorised material should be bought into
  the room and no exam papers or stationery should
  leave. Pencil cases should be see-through and
  drinks have no labels.
• Exams have to start within 30 minutes of 9.00 for
  the morning and 1.30 in the afternoon.
• Candidates may not leave until 1 hour after the
  start of the exam.
• After the papers have been distributed the rubric
  should be read and the times stated using the
  wording in the ICE.

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Invigilating

• At least 130
• Teacher or parent cannot be the sole invigilator
• Quiet, active observation
• Be careful about what questions you can answer
• Ensure that no-one cheats or disrupts others
• Should be reassuring presence
• Sign the invigilation sheets
• Candidates needing to leave the room should be
  supervised
• Have a means of getting help radio, mobile,
  runner
• Know the fire drill procedure

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Finishing the Exam

• Tell candidates that they should stop writing
• There is no need for a 5 minute warning
• Papers should be collected in candidate number
  order
• They should not be left unsupervised
• Check with EO on arrangements for bagging up
• Extra time candidates

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Scenarios

• What would you do if?

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Late arrival

• A student arrives an hour late for their exam
  because they overslept.
• What should you do?

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Special consideration/access arrangement

• A candidate arrives with his right arm (which he
  writes with) in a pot because its broken.
• What should happen?

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Wrong play?

• You give out the English Literature papers but
  when the students start one girl tells you that
  the questions are about Hamlet and they have
  studied Macbeth.
• What should happen?

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FIRE DRILL