Timeline for What is the appropriate response to students who peek at the exam questions before the exam starts?
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| Dec 15, 2018 at 3:56 | vote | accept | Concu Bine | ||
| Oct 15, 2018 at 17:29 | comment | added | Valorum | If you're the junior invigilator, report it to the senior invigilator. If you're the senior invigilator, make a note of it and pass it along with the exam report and if you're the sole invigilator, ignore it :-) | |
| Oct 15, 2018 at 17:10 | comment | added | GreySage | Something a lot people seem to be missing is that sometimes mistakes happen in the preparation of exams. At my university it was common to be told (by the profs!) to take a few seconds to flip through the exam to make sure all the pages were there, that there were no illegible pages etc. I can imagine these students are doing exactly that, especially given that 10 seconds is of no academic benefit and I'd expect the students themselves to know that. | |
| Oct 15, 2018 at 13:36 | history | protected | eykanal | ||
| Oct 15, 2018 at 13:14 | comment | added | Dennis Jaheruddin | If there is any chance that they gain more than time by this (e.g. by quickly asking their neighbor or checking the phone before the exam starts) then most answers here are too gentle. | |
| Oct 15, 2018 at 13:13 | answer | added | B. Goddard | timeline score: 5 | |
| Oct 15, 2018 at 9:57 | answer | added | Giuseppe Negro | timeline score: 4 | |
| Oct 15, 2018 at 7:43 | answer | added | Dmitry Grigoryev | timeline score: 3 | |
| Oct 15, 2018 at 4:51 | answer | added | Keith | timeline score: 5 | |
| Oct 14, 2018 at 23:05 | answer | added | user2813274 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 14, 2018 at 23:05 | answer | added | Tyson | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 14, 2018 at 17:55 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Oct 14, 2018 at 17:40 | comment | added | David Richerby | As an invigilator, your job is to enforce the rules, not make them. The answer to this question is "Do whatever your university's policies say you should do" so I'm voting to close. | |
| Oct 14, 2018 at 15:00 | comment | added | E.P. | For clarity, where are you geographically, and what type of exams are these? From the term "invigilator" I imagine you're in the UK and these are undergraduate end-of-year exams, but you should still state it explicitly in your question. (See here for the reasoning.) | |
| Oct 14, 2018 at 14:35 | comment | added | Forgottenscience | @MassimoOrtolano Some exam papers are 2 hours or 1.5 hours. If I gain 5 minutes extra thinking time that is equal to about 5% extra time in total for the shorter exam of the two. If this translates reasonably to the final grade, that could bump me up a grade. This is in my mind not an irrelevant advantage from cheating. | |
| Oct 14, 2018 at 14:14 | comment | added | Ethan Bolker | Ask the person who assigned you the supervision task. Perhaps point him or her to this discussion for possible solutions. | |
| Oct 14, 2018 at 11:28 | comment | added | Massimo Ortolano | @Forgottenscience If that makes any difference for the exam, then there's a major problem. | |
| Oct 14, 2018 at 10:08 | comment | added | Forgottenscience | I speed read reasonably well (+1000 w/m) when the text is moderately easy to read. Give me 10 seconds and I could easily get the gist of one or more exam questions and start working on it in my head. This is clearly cheating and I would immediately report it if I saw anyone do what you saw. | |
| Oct 14, 2018 at 10:07 | comment | added | TEK | @Bakuriu Fair comments. All the exams I have sat or have given are in extremely formal settings with ample invigilators and the 'head' examiner giving stern warnings at the front. | |
| Oct 14, 2018 at 8:50 | comment | added | Federico Poloni | @Bakuriu No, the whole premise of this question is that these 2-5 minutes differences can be eliminated with proper procedure: you give out the sheets turned white side up, and then when you have finished you announce "you may now turn your sheet". At the end of the time, presumably, you say "please stop writing at once". It works if everyone complies, of course (and if they don't, you can give out penalties). | |
| Oct 13, 2018 at 22:55 | answer | added | Count Iblis | timeline score: 8 | |
| Oct 13, 2018 at 21:36 | comment | added | Bakuriu | @TEK If you have 200 students taking the exact some students will receive the text 2-5 minutes before the others. It would be fair only if you follow a strict order to give the exam text and follow the same order when getting the completed exam (so who gets the text 2-5 minutes before effectively has to hand it out 2-5 minutes before). IMHO with that amound of time you cannot really do anything. The only "use case" would be dividing the exercises between a group of cooperating cheaters but hopefully if you can see them turning the paper you can also see them cheat later... | |
| Oct 13, 2018 at 21:02 | answer | added | alephzero | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 13, 2018 at 17:38 | comment | added | Barmar | @TEK Whatever is allowed, these students are taking additional time on top of it. | |
| Oct 13, 2018 at 16:54 | answer | added | Rag | timeline score: 29 | |
| Oct 13, 2018 at 16:50 | comment | added | TEK | Seems perfectly reasonable to allow students an opportunity to read the exam paper before the exam "officially starts". Every exam I have ever taken, and now give, always provided additional reading time on top the exam time. Why not introduce 2-5 minutes of reading time for these exams? | |
| Oct 13, 2018 at 16:01 | answer | added | Buffy | timeline score: 8 | |
| Oct 13, 2018 at 15:40 | answer | added | Nate Eldredge | timeline score: 11 | |
| Oct 13, 2018 at 15:35 | comment | added | user4052054 | Really? Is it cheating to look at an exam 10 seconds it starts? It might be annoying or whatever, but I don't think it would make a difference for the student. | |
| Oct 13, 2018 at 15:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAcademia/status/1051125542358065152 | ||
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