6 March 2017, 2 pm
The invigilators waft about the super-comfortable, climate-controlled exam hall being important and invigilant and making sure the candidates do not attempt to set up discussion forums in their toilet breaks. It is tedious in the extreme being an invigilator. There is only so much you can be invigilant about when nobody cheats and nobody needs spare paper and nobody runs weeping from the room. The EyeEyeEyePeePee looks lost without an excuse to use his thermometer. There is a Chief Invigilator, sent over specially by the EPO to make sure the amateurs, like me for instance, do not make a hash of things. He gets to sit at a desk on a stage, so that he can survey the entire room and everything that is not happening there. After a short time he gets so bored he leaves the room, not to be seen again for some two hours or so. I manage to find myself an at least semi-interesting job checking the candidates’ ID during the first half hour. As if turning up at an exam hall with a suitcase full of text books and a willingness to sit at a desk for five hours were not proof enough that these are genuine candidates. Suffice to say, I do not identify any imposters, although I have to admit there are some dodgy-looking passport photos. Really, they should forge something more flattering next time they want to sit an exam.
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