art exam

[mollykins]

We didn't even have an official invidulator, jsut our art teacher, who was helping people and on several occaisons we were left alone for up to 2 minutes with no supervision.

Plus people were allowed on the computer and into the computer room next door to retrieve their stuff, is this allowed?

[saxy_jag]

Depends whether it was classed as an exam or a teacher-assessment. The latter isn't so strict in terms of conditions and it could be that your teacher thought you wouldn't understand the term (because they're a bit dim that way, are teachers).

To be honest, practical art isn't the sort of thing where you can benefit by copying off your mates. I mean, I tried it once and I still failed!

[brenda]

It is not unusual for a subject teacher to invigilate a test or examination , held in a specialist room , say cookery , metal work or art.That teacher is familiar with the equipment in that room , and would be able to supply it to a candidate on their request , so that the candidate can continue to carry out the task set in their own way.
this is not unusual ,. Only when the exam forbids the use of extra items would the invigilator not provide them
The fact that people went into the room next door is not really that important in a practical subject.However there should be some supervision to keep noise to a minimum.It is unlikely that the examinees will have suffered in any way really by this intrusion upon their creativity.This would not be the case in say an oral or aural test , nor one where intense concentration was required, mathematics , sciences , languages spring to mind here just as an example.
I would try now to put this test /exam behind you , get some serious revision done for the next ones and the very best of luck.

[mollykins]

I can't put it behind me, i have the second half of it today, its ten hours in total.

[boxtops]

Good luck for today's, molly - once it's over, you have the weekend to recover. Good luck!

[mollykins]

yeah me and my friend are watching alice in wonderland tonight then i'm staying round hers.

[mollykins]

Plus lots of people were talking, which was distracting.

Oh and with the going into the room next door, at the start of the exam you bring all your stuff in and can't take it out again or bring anything else in until the end of the second day.

[northernmonkey]

1 - Was this exam a mock exam because I'm highly doubtful it was a GCSE art examination? If so, then I even though the whole aim of them is to get Student's prepared for their real exam conditions, and also the type of questions....It may have been that the teacher felt that by allowing these Student's in question to use a computer, it will benefit them. Also could be a last chance for all coursework to be finalised. Thats just what I think......

[factor-fiction]

I think it was the real A level practical exam, northernmonkey- I know a lot of schools did them last week

[mollykins]

It was a properly externally assessed gcse exam suposidly under exam conditions and we aren't allowed to go back to any of the work we did for that project.

At one point, the teacher had to make a phone call, so the head invidulator at the school came in to watch us and she didn't let anyone out or on the computer and it was deadly silent, how it should be.

[brenda]

mollykins-- whilst all this is absolutely riveting , not. I appreciate your anxieties, however I would urge that you focus on all that lies ahead , and stop trying to make waves asbout things you personally can do nothing about.That's what parents or a responsible adults are for.So talk to them.

[mollykins]

I just wanted to make sure that the stuff was valid, because if the conditions meant they weren't, that work would be for nothing, ps, non of you know what school i'm at so you can't grass us up.

[mollykins]

PPS, the people who did it with the other art teacher weren't allowed to use their computer, talk, and at no point were left alone . . . .