recalled my invigilating duty last week. invigilators reach earlier to distribute the papers. i did a quick job, as usual haha.. most people would walk down between 2 rows of tables and distribute the papers on both sides. it saves the effort of walking an extra time, but i still think it's not that great a strategy. it takes too long to distribute on both your left and right hand side. if you can walk, might as well just distribute on one side while you walk down cos it's a LOT faster that way. so needless to say, haha, i did the job fast. the chief invigilator gave some instructions to us, but nothing i didn't already know. i specifically asked him whether the students are allowed to have their mobile phones on the desk. NO. great haha.. bags? on the sides. air con? yea... it'll be turned on soon... when the doors were open the students flooded in. a large number of my monday class students were in my invigilating section and it was fun to see them. some of them were delighted to see me there and greeted me with a huge wide smile. some are glad to see someone they can freak out at, and they rushed up to me and asked if the paper was difficult, had i seen it yet.. haha.. poor kids.. most of them were just happy to see that i recognized them, and gave a polite but delightful smile. as they settled down i started to fully appreciate the need for invigilators, and the junior invigilators came to understand what they needed to do. i went around checking where they placed their belongings. bags at the side please! mobile phones on the floor! haha... A LOT of them just placed their bags at their desks despite the instructions. when the junior invigilators saw me making rounds, they started doing the same. good job! a student requested for some scrap paper to level his wobbly desk and he is lucky he asked me, or it'd never happen.. here's the boring part, invigilating and roaming the students while they're all deeply engrossed in their test. as we walk around and take attendance, we take note of their calculators (check if they're programmable or graphical - not allowed) and whether they have anything they shouldn't have with them. generally ok, but here's something i found. a student brought it a tamagotchi. *faint* it's a maths test, why would you need to bring in your tamagotchi of all things? at the end of the test we went around to collect the papers. i did that very slowly cos i wanted to make sure that all of them have shaded their matric numbers already. as i collected the papers i was disappointed to see that some of them had left an mcq question empty. WHY?! just shade anything, there's a chance it could be correct you know... you won't get penalized for a wrong answer anyway.... tsk tsk after the scripts were counted and they could leave, i braved the frantically leaving and packing crowd. making sure they've brought all their things with them. this is like a treasure hunting session i tell you. we found numerous matric cards which we managed to return to the students by quickly announcing over the speaker and asking the student to come forward and get it. but the biggest haul of the day has got to be the mobile phone we found. one student left his phone behind, and i was tasked with tracing the shrimp and returning it to him. damn. initially i tried calling the mom, but the mom didn't pick up. called his last call friend, found the name, told the friend to tell him to call back this number to arrange picking up the phone. it was only until i got to the bus stop that he called when he realised he left it behind. silly boy... i told him to collect it the next day during MY tutorial class in engin. heh. when i got to the train station his mom called from home, and imagine her shock when a stranger picked up the phone instead of her son. haha.... but she was glad to know i'd be returning the phone. the next day he came to my class, tsk tsk, poor manners, but i didn't make things difficult for him. not TOO difficult anyway. hey, it's only right to veify that he is the owner right? i made him recite his home number before i gave him the phone. did he say thank you??? posted by Yee 10:51 PM . . .
