Notice to Candidates and Candidate other candidates’ work, intentionally or otherwise. Warning poster

4.5.2.2 Notice to Candidates and Candidate other candidates’ work, intentionally or otherwise. Warning poster

Where this is the case the exams oficer must use You must display the Notice to Candidates and

an alternative method so that no candidate’s work Candidate Warning poster both inside and outside

can be overseen by any other candidates. This can be the exam room for all exams, including speaking and

achieved by:

listening tests. We recommend you print this as A2 • increasing the space between candidates’ desks size. You will receive copies of each poster in the pre-

• seating alternating rows of candidates taking exam despatch and you can download them from our

different exams

website at www.cambridgeinternational.org/examday. If Cambridge International exams are taking place in

• using extra invigilators.

the same room at the same time as exams from other (c) If necessary, please contact us or your Cambridge UK boards, you can display the JCQ posters outside the

Associate for advice about alternative methods. We room and the Cambridge International posters inside.

retain the right to approve or query the steps the exams oficer has taken to prevent candidates from

Important information

seeing the work of others.

The regulations in this section also apply to all Art & Design practical exams.

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4.5.3.2 Written exams the situation. Store the original script securely and contact us for further guidance.

(a) All candidates must face in the same direction. (b)

Candidates must sit in candidate number

Extra guidance

order, with candidate numbers or index numbers on each desk.

If a candidate is unwell in the exam room or (c) Each candidate must have their own desk or table

has a potentially contagious disease, go to of suficient size to accommodate question papers,

www.cambridgeinternational.org/help and type maps, equipment and materials for practical exams,

‘soiled scripts’ into the search box for advice on and answer booklets/paper.

handling soiled scripts.

(d) We would suggest that where possible you do not use desks with shelves in exams. Candidates

Extra guidance

could use these shelves to store notes or other unauthorised items. If no alternative desks are

Use the irst section of our ‘Exam day available, invigilators must check the shelves before

checklist’ to make sure you are ready for the the beginning of the exam, and must pay special

exams ahead and your preparations meet attention to make sure nothing is placed on them

our regulations. Download the checklist from during the exam. You could appoint extra invigilators

www.cambridgeinternational.org/examday to monitor this.

(e) Candidates who are working on a drawing board set on an easel or another non-horizontal surface should, wherever possible, sit in an inward-facing circle or similar.

(f) Where candidates sit an exam in a language laboratory, the minimum distance in all directions from the centre of one candidate’s chair to the centre of another’s must be 1.25 metres. If you cannot meet this requirement you must use screened booths instead.

Screened booths

may restrict invigilators’ view of candidates. In this situation, increase the number of invigilators.

(g) Where candidates sit an exam in a computer laboratory, the minimum distance between the outer edge of one monitor to the other should be

1.25 metres. If you cannot meet this requirement, candidates must sit at alternate monitors or in screened booths.

Screened booths may restrict

invigilators’ view of candidates. In this situation, increase the number of invigilators.

(h) You may hold other exams in the room at the same time, provided no disturbance is caused.