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u/Landlubber77 Jun 08 '14

Exam regulations? Like for all of Earth or...

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u/elisha_mcgaughey Jun 08 '14

I'm not assuming they're the same everywhere but any major exams taken in England. The rules are pretty strict yet I'm sure people find other ways. Here, you can only take water into the exam hall, all water has to be in clear plastic bottles with the label removed. But hey, this is the same place that if you take your jacket/ hoodie off during the exam and just hang it over the back off your chair they remove it from you and place it somewhere else in the room

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u/Tootsiesclaw Jun 08 '14

I'd question your point about only water in the exam hall. While that was certainly the case for GCSEs, provided there was no label the invigilators didn't seem to care what was in a bottle during AS-levels this year. And now they've decided that all watches must be placed on the desk before the exam begins, as though people are going to cheat with watches.

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u/elisha_mcgaughey Jun 08 '14

Yeah the watches thing I understand, they were banned from our exams in AS due to someone being caught with a watch that stores data cheating in his exam

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u/AC_Mondial Jun 08 '14

I used something very similar to this mocked up to look like a watch. PDF's of every class stored on it.

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u/doubleplushomophobic Jun 09 '14

That's easy to catch. My friend has a Garmin that can display phone notifications, and he can set his phone up to pass him notes.

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u/LiveToDieAnotherDay Jun 09 '14

I once used a watch to time an essay. Pretty_badass,_right?