Exam Super-Intendants

Healio

any1 else got an absolute prick of an examiner??

conZ

Jesus Christ. I have to have the worst bitch ever. She's a retard - she was wearing a ****ing bell around her today - one of those steel balls inside a steel hollow sphere, like what dog's wear.

It's attached around her leg, so every move she made: jiggle, cling, rattle, woof.

Pissed off everyone in the room, I can't see how she wasn't annoyed.
If she wears it tomorrow, I think i'll have to ask her to remove the object... Or should I come in with a boombox or wind chime?

Kold

Yep, and apparently the supervisor in the other room gave them an extra 15 minutes.

PHB

Yeah getting a good examiner is a lifesend.

Major hint:
Find out what type your guy is.

In history or geog you can start writing your special topic about 5 mins early if the guy is lax, which can give you an extra grade

DS

My whole year's in the same hall, so there's about 4 of them in there. Probably not going to get any leeway because there's always gonna be one of them who'll have no funny business. The main woman pronounces minute "minyoot". And she says "minyoot" in every sentence for some reason.

DEmeant0r

I got a very wonderful examiner. She's as sound as a pound. But she's still strict with the whole 'Don't bring your exam paper outside until the exam is actually over' thing, but other than that, she's sound.

subway_ie

Mine's really sound - she'll help you out if you're really stuck (interpreting a question... won't actually give you the answer) and will let you run over time for a few minutes. She is strict about the not taking the exam papers out before the time is up, but you can just pick it up afterwards/at the next exam.

Smellyirishman

Mine is fine. I dont really see the big deal anyway, other than the bell shaking thingy!! But I mean a lifesend is knowing your stuff and the questions coming up, not having a hot examiner or a really sound one or whatever!

My main reason for posting is , does anyone know what they write on your booklet when you go to the toilet and do they mark the last sheet on your book to show where you stop writing?

Im not an idiot so have yet to "needed" to go to the toilet (although nerves almost made me need to! ) so Im not sure on what they write

anyone know?

Suaimhneach

Ours is a mad hippie woman with hairy armpits and sleeveless tops!!! Argh! mad!

Lol, she was closing the windows today, I felt sorry for the people under her.

Stinky woman is reasonably alright otherwise though.

Crash

heh mines weird....very weird. and i think i insulted his daughter.

Heh our exam hall has a Rec Room...with couches...and a kitchen. its teh win

Raskolnikov

Originally posted by PHB
Yeah getting a good examiner is a lifesend.

Major hint:
Find out what type your guy is.

In history or geog you can start writing your special topic about 5 mins early if the guy is lax, which can give you an extra grade

I too did that for my LC history, the extra 10 minutes was great to have and let me get just a little extra detail and probably took my grade from B2 to B1.

Cannibal Ox

In our Aural today she had to stop the tape right after the Intro because she forgot to tell us that the guy named Michael was called Eoin on the tape.

Not only that but as we'd just got into the second part, she stoppped it again (during the exam!) to go in to the next room because she forgot to tell the intendant in there about the mistake and then left us on our own for a good five minutes...

AdMMM

We have a sound enough super-intendant. Lets you run over time and leave before the 30minutes are up, why you'd want to do that is beyond me, but several people did!

She doesnt allow you go to the jaxx at any time though

PHB

Thats technicalyl againist the law and she'd be fired if she got caught, if you really want to complain and she will be made let you, just tell your principal

Stench Blossoms

mine is sound.... although he dont let ya take the paper out either...
and makes sum1 go to the toilet wit ya but they always wanna no do ya need a hand wit any of the questions!

he walked out durin our aural today just for a wander around the school...

senordingdong

Mines a sap, a proper crank, she just stares at me all the time, and as gorgeous as i am, i think shes just trying to keep an eye on me or something, it puts me off.

senordingdong

Originally posted by orla
and makes sum1 go to the toilet wit ya but they always wanna no do ya need a hand wit any of the questions!

Thats normal, every school has students hired by the dept. of ed. to accompany you to the toilets to make sure you dont try to cheat etc...

The Song Thrush

Our guy is sound. The only problem is when he strolls around the room, because I'm at the top of the room and he circles around the row I'm in. So it's very disracting. And he always stays on my side off the room, never walks over to the other side. :dunno:

Flashraziel

Mine wears sandals and talks about GAA every morning before the exam starts. He also says a prayer with us.

I was leaving Pass Irish today early and he started saying "so, how did it go?" "what are you going to do next year?" and a little creepily "Do you live nearby?"

Creepy!

Lantis

Mine's fairly sound, no Hitlerism or anything like that. She's really friendly with us, though still no papers out before the exams end though. Why is that, anyway?

Anywhoo, the only thing I'm dreading is sitting there alone in the room with her during my Japanese exam.
Being the focus of an examiner's staring is...distracting. Although I don't really see the point, am I gonna cheat off the air?

Flashraziel

I'm doing the Japanese exam too but there are 6 of us in my school. What school do you go to? where do you learn Japanese?

Smellyirishman

No but maybe off the notes in your arse-pocket!!

Well I dunno, I havent seen this yet so is it a case of not being able to take the exam paper out even tho YOUR finished your test, or just when going out to the toilet.

I imagine its the former and so I cannot offer an answer as of yet, the latter should be quite clear

Lantis

Originally posted by Flashraziel
I'm doing the Japanese exam too but there are 6 of us in my school. What school do you go to? where do you learn Japanese?

Schoolin' in Drogheda, my Japanese is all self-study and at a higher level than the syllabus, thankfully. Happen to want to MSN or something and compare notes?

daveyjoe

Originally posted by senordingdong
Thats normal, every school has students hired by the dept. of ed. to accompany you to the toilets to make sure you dont try to cheat etc...

Yeah and they also get paid if they catch you cheating...

...Our examiner seems nice enough, she doesn't say much but she's not always walking around and distracting me like the onle I had for my Juniour Cert. She hasn't said anything to anybody who leaves the exam centre early with their papers, she also lets people go to the toilet without an escort (I think), well she let one person go without an escort anyway.

PrecariousNuts

My guy is as sound as they come.

Want to leave early with your papers? Sure
Want a few minutes extra? Fine
Helpful and courteous? Yep

He even started the listening again due to heavy rain.

subway_ie

Originally posted by daveyjoe
Yeah and they also get paid if they catch you cheating...

That commission thing is a bit of an urban myth...

senordingdong

Originally posted by subway_ie
That commission thing is a bit of an urban myth...

It is, i had that job when i was in fifth year.
Personally i felt it was better to help those who needed/asked for help.
Well those who deserved it anyway...you could instantly spot somene that didnt bothter for two years and then wanted help to cheat or a grade.

Barbie_666

mines is wild sound too.hes very quiet though...keeps to himself...dosn't "socialise" wit da other examiner type peeps @ lunch time.....i think hes scared of us....:(

smelly girl

thats ****e. i did that attentence thingy and we asked what if we caught anyone cheating (not that we cared) and we were told that you dont get paid for that because its your own school and things like that...

i have a super-super-intendant!!!

elvis2002

2 years ago I did the leaving cert. My super-intendant was a class act,

I sat the exam in an area where there were toilets, You didn't have to ask or anything, just stroll on in. No more than one person though.

He used to give us the exam 5 minutes before it started so we could have a read of it.

During the honours maths paper, I couldn't understand a particular question so I called him over, I only expected he would tell me what I had to do, but I remember he gave me the first line with a trig question.
He also pointed out the chain rule in another question.
During physics there was only 8 of us, and he would stand over reading what each person was writing and give a nod in approval or disproval.

He told me the word for Internet in Irish.

After every test it was like he wanted to go have a cup of tea with me, everytime I left he'd say how was that, what ya think of this question. did you work that out.

Great lad, the way I should be I think, it doesn't help people when u have a noisy ****er looking at you like you robbed an old one's handbag.

daveyjoe

Originally posted by smelly girl
thats ****e. i did that attentence thingy and we asked what if we caught anyone cheating (not that we cared) and we were told that you dont get paid for that because its your own school and things like that...

i have a super-super-intendant!!!

One of my friends is in fifth year now and he's assisting the superintendants, I was talking to him between exams and he said that if he catches anyone cheating, he gets €100, it seems like kind of a round figure, so I don't know if it's true but I have no reason to disbelieve him.

one-angry-dwarf

Originally posted by senordingdong

Thats normal, every school has students hired by the dept. of ed. to accompany you to the toilets to make sure you dont try to cheat etc... B]

For some reason the fifth years in our school dont bother. they sit outside the hall at a desk but you just walk out and stroll off to the toilets all alone. its amazing how easy it is to cheat. As far as supervisors go, mine is grand. He looks like william shatner though which is kind of distracting!

subway_ie

Nobody's asked to go to the toilet in our centre, so the fourth years just sit outside doing nothing all day. They make enough noise brining the tea in though... we must have the squeakiest door *ever* in our centre.

leeroybrown

It's years since I did my LC now but the one problem my class had with the super-intendant was with the aural exams. The tape recorders were of lower quality than any recorder I ever did aural practice with in class.

We had to swap recorder then change room during the French aural so that the volume could be reduced to cut out the distortion. It was rediculous and was at least a grade dropped on average. He also started the Ieish tape early while 2/3 of the class were not back in the room. Another poor tape recorder.

When I was doing my JC the super-intendant fell alseep. I had to wake him up by going up and banging on his desk. It gave him quite a fright.

Agent Smith

mine's alright....
smokes outside with us,
wont let us take the paper's with us, which i dont understand,

he's also a bastard...

during the first english exam, he asked people to put up there hand if the were doing ordinary level english.
i was sittng at the front, put my hand up and he laughed.
(only person doing it)


if this was gamesville, i'd give him 7g's

subway_ie

Originally posted by leeroybrown
I had to wake him up by going up and banging on his desk. It gave him quite a fright.

Why'd you even bother waking him?

Our one would never fall asleep. Always drinking coffee non-stop. I'm surprised she doesn't start vibrating with the cafeine rush.

leeroybrown

Originally posted by subway_ie
Why'd you even bother waking him?

It was Maths and I needed graph paper. I'd had my hand up for a couple of minutes so I went up to the desk. He was also reading a paper (which I don't think they're allowed to do).

Originally posted by agent smith
wont let us take the paper's with us, which i dont

Afaik, it's based on the idea that the only people who should have access to the papers up until all the exams have finished are the students sitting it. Theoretically some enterprising individual could be hiding hints/answers in the toilets for people who have yet to finish.

Drag00n79

The "assistants" outside the examination centre definitely DO NOT get paid extra for catching candidates cheating. Your friend in fifth year is just pulling your leg, I'm afraid.

goldensyrup

our examiner was sound. loved his lucozade fizzed all over him EVERY TIME he opened the bottle which was every 5mins, 1 bottle per exam, he also enjoyed biscuits which he crunched loudly. he used talk to us during the exams bout da weather AND let us bring food into the exams!

spurious

Holy thread resurrection.
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