Teachers reveal exam hall games
(No user rating) (from BBC News - 29 July 2010)Teachers have revealed some of the tricks they use to avoid boredom during exams - including pencil-sharpener races and spotting the ugliest pupil in the hall.
The comments, posted on the Times Educational Supplement's web chatroom, also show invigilators playing slowed-down games of "chicken" in the aisles between desks and "running" races around the room.
One more cerebral teacher even spent time translating exam regulations into foreign languages.
Another counted the number of bricks in a wall.
Making figures out of Blu-tack was recommended by one invigilator.
A crueller game required colleagues to "count the students wearing specs", divide this by the number of redheads in the hall and add the number of coughs in a 10-minute period.
If the number of children with visible [spelt "visable" by the teacher] nits is subtracted, the answer is said always to be four.
A spokesman for the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority, which regulates exams in England, said it frowned on such behaviour.
"Teachers are supposed to be focusing on the behaviour of pupils and what's going on in the exam room," he said.
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George Compton: I am aware of an invigilator who passed the time by doing mental maths in Roman numerals.(24/08/2010)
