Assalamualaikum

It was a week full of incidents. As told in my previous entry, this was the semester 1’s final exam week.

This final exam is the third time I’ve became invigilator and I must say that this time it was the most tiring and full of incidents.

Maybe because I was carrying out my 6 day sunat fasting while invigilating, I tend to get tired easily and often dozed off couple of times. Hiks. But I did my job tremendously nonetheless. Of all five day invigilating, Thursday was the day that we’ve received a lot of problems. But let’s talk about the exam generally first.

To my surprise, I presume that being here at matriculation level, these students understood fully on the technicallity of objective papers after experiencing UPSR, PMR and SPM before. General instruction was to shade the given region with 2B grade pencil and avoid using pen and mechanical pencil. But suprisingly they manage to do otherwise. There are some who shaded using pen and when they realized their mistake, decided to shade on top with pencil. You see, the problem will arise when the objective paper scan these papers. Unfortunately, it is proven when an objective papers are shaded with pen or mechanical pencil, very often that the scanner aren’t able to detect thus creating error during the scanning process. Thankfully at my examination center, I took precaution by preventing students to bring in any pen or mechanical pencil into the examination hall. But this thing still happened at other examination centers.

Now let’s talk about the Thursday incidents. In my history if invigilating, never have I encountered two cheaters in one single day. Both came from a center at the tutorial complex. Both were discovered to use smuggled notes (toyol) to answer their question. In fact, one of the even did two attempts after his first attempt was quickly discovered.

Here was what he did. After finding out that his first toyol didn’t have the specific topic that was contested in the exam question, he decided to ask for permission to go the restroom, but the fact he was running back to his hostel and manage to wrote down a new sets of toyol. He manages to loose the invigilator who was escorting him. And when he came back into the hall, he even had the guts to do the cheating even when the head invigilator was standing next to him watching him carrying his wrongdoings. So funny or should I say…extremely stupid.

The second one was a girl. At the final of the given paper, she was supposed to submit unused paper back. Unfortunately, she crumpled those papers into one big ball and when asked to unfold, a bunch of small (toyol)s was discovered inside it. Her excuse was she didn’t study the previous night due to overslept. Hmmm…

Whatever it is, whats done is done, the past is gone and the future is up for grab. Take care now bye bye then…adios