GCSE Mock Exam Instructions – 1st December to 12th December 2014
All Year 11 Form tutors,
See below for a guide to what needs to be said, clearly, to your tutor groups, for the December mock exams. Please
reiterate the main points each day regarding punctuality, seat numbers, mobile phones and equipment.
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Written exams will be in the Sports Hall, unless indicated otherwise.
Register as usual at 8.45am with your form tutor every morning.
If you have an exam during the first session, you will go straight to your exam venue, immediately you have
been registered, to assemble at 8.50am.
If you have an exam after break, you will go straight to the exam venue (at 11.00am unless your timetable
indicates otherwise) and wait to be called in.
If you have an exam after lunch, you will go straight to your exam venue from lunch. You must be there by
1.15pm.
If you have an afternoon exam, you will go to afternoon lessons, when released from the exam venue, and
then to afternoon registration, unless the senior invigilator, in your venue, instructs you otherwise.
If you are entitled to an LSA, and have examinations timetabled in the pavilion, you must assemble in the
High Option Café nearby to the Learning Support Office.
If you are not entitled to an LSA, and have examinations timetabled in the pavilion, you must assemble
quietly outside the exam venue, you have been allocated, until the invigilator allows you to enter.
Any students who have a music performance exam, Mr Morley will give you an appointment time for you
to attend in the main hall.
Any students who are scheduled to do art and design, art 3D construction, graphic communication, the
dance practical or Cambridge Nationals, have not been seated, so these subjects will not appear on your
timetable. Please ask your subject teacher for details of date, start time and exam venue. Your form tutor
will also have access to these details.
Once you enter your exam venue there must be total silence at all times unless communicating with an
invigilator or your allocated LSA.
Use the toilet before exams. You will have to be accompanied if you need to go to the toilet during an exam.
Arrive at school on time in the morning. Warn parents, who drive you to school, that you will be detained
after the examination if you are late. Make allowances for cancelled buses, trains and heavy traffic.
Please keep a copy of your individual timetable on you to check your seat numbers. They will be different
for each subject. Ensure you know your seat number and exam venue before you go to your exam. You will
waste a lot of everyone’s time if you don’t. Your form tutor will also have access to a list of your seat
numbers.
Full correct school uniform must be worn. You could wear a white T shirt under your shirt as it may be cold
in the Sports Hall.
For mocks only but not for GCSE – Take your coats and bags with you to the examination. Take your coat off
before you enter the exam venue and put it on the back of your chair. Put your bag under your desk (not in
the aisle).
For mocks only but not for GCSE – Mobiles must be turned off, not just on silent, and in your bag (not in
pockets). You will not be allowed to take a mobile into the exam venues for any GCSE exam. GCSE and A
level candidates have had their papers cancelled by the exam board in the past because they have been
found with a mobile, even though it wasn’t being used.
Random checks may be carried out to ensure you adhere to the JCQ regulations that Mr Haigh talked about
in his recent assemblies.
No food or drinks during exams.
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GCSE Mock Exam Instructions – 1st December to 12th December 2014
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Have the correct equipment. It will be too late to buy it immediately before an examination. Black pens,
sharpened pencils, rubbers, rulers, calculators, compass, protractor in a clear pencil case or plastic bag.
Write your name and your teacher’s name on every examination answer paper you take
If you are too ill to sit an exam you should do your best to sit it when you return, when there is a slot
available. You should see Mrs Cotton or Mrs Jenkins in the general office to make arrangements to sit the
missed papers.
Whilst the GCSE mock exams are taking place lessons will continue as usual. Please bring in to school what you
would normally i.e. books, PE kit etc. for the lessons that you will be in when you are not sitting an examination.
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