1. Year 12/ Year 13 Mock Examinations
January 2019

2. Your exam timetable tells you your room and seat number
These will be different for each exam.
Please make sure you know which room you should be in and which seat
You will waste a lot of everyone’s time if you don’t

3. You have your examination timetable
You and your parents have also been ed an electronic copy of your timetable.
You should keep one in your pencil case, which must have nothing written on it.
Noticeboard in the study area shows the same information.

4. A-Level and combination students are on study leave for the exam period. Pure BTEC students will be in school as normal and should sign in with Mrs Flannery every day.

5. Signing in for examinations You don’t need to sign in, just get to the exam venue in good time. If you are late we will phone home.

6. Bags and phones You may leave bags and coats in the Sixth Form Learning Area under the cameras – at your own risk. You may hand phones in to the sixth form student managers. We can't take responsibility for the safety of your belongings

7. For morning exams, you must be waiting quietly outside the exam room by 8.45am at the latest.

8. For afternoon exams, you must be waiting quietly outside the exam room by 1.15pm at the latest.

9. In external exams you must not bring your iPod, mobile phone, smart watch or any electronic device other than a basic watch & calculator into any examination venue
In the past A level candidates at this school have had their papers cancelled by the exam board because they have been found with a mobile, even though it was in their pocket and switched off

10. Turn off all watch alarms and hour reminders; don’t distract or annoy other candidates
Students using graphical calculators or powerful scientific calculators must clear the calculator memory – this may be checked

11. MALPRACTICE
Be very careful to do nothing which is against the rules or gives you any unfair advantage
Anything that could give you even the slightest unfair advantage is malpractice
Have nothing written on your hands; not even your candidate number
Have no notes in your pocket or on your person
There will be spot checks involving a random sample of students
Be aware that we always report malpractice

12. Toilets
Go before the exam
If you have to go during an exam you will have to be escorted and may asked to turn your pockets out
We keep a record of names of those who have to be allowed to go to the toilet

13. There must be total silence at all times in the examination room
There must be total silence at all times in the examination room. You should not communicate in any way with any other candidates – even by gesture or eye contact

14. Leaving the examination
When dismissed by the lead invigilator:
leave in total silence
keep moving; don’t stop in the foyer/hall way

15. Normal Dress Code must be worn
Please do not write anything on your paper until you are invited to do so

16. No food is to be consumed during an exam
Small bottles of water will be permitted, with the label removed and bottle placed on the floor
Cough sweets are OK, if you have a cough

17. ID badges – please put your ID badge flat on your desk so that the invigilators can check who is present without disturbing you
Watches – please take off your watch and put it on your desk so that the invigilators can check that it is not a smart watch or fitbit or anything else that could be of concern
Water bottles – labels off and keep them on the floor

18. Have the correct equipment
It will be too late to buy it immediately before an examination
Black pens, sharpened HB pencils, rubbers, rulers, calculators and a clean copy of your examination timetable should be in a clear pencil case or plastic bag
Calculator lids must not be taken into the examination room

19. Phone us if you are ill You or your parents/carers should phone Mrs Flannery as normal as soon as possible before the start of your examination

20. How should you revise?
Practice answering exam questions and review your answers against the mark scheme
Practice recalling the information and ideas you need: quizzing not just reading; use flashcards; explain ideas to others
Use online resources to help you – e.g. watch videos, then make notes or do mymaths task and correct errors
Write (but don’t copy) notes to practice processing the ideas and facts

21. GOOD LUCK!