COMPUTER STUDIES 3
Instructions to Schools and Supervisors
(1)
Great care should be taken to ensure that the information given below does not reach the candidates either directly or indirectly before the examination.
(a) The timetable allows for the examination to be taken in two sets. Where a school is presenting candidates for the second set, the supervisor must ensure that the work from the first set is permanently deleted from the hard drive including the recycle bin.
(b) Additional 5 minutes should be given to candidates at the end of the examination to print out their finished/unfinished solutions.
(c) Invigilators should pick up candidates’ hard copies from the printers and hand over to the candidates to avoid overcrowding around the printer.
(d) Candidates are to submit their printouts to the supervisor themselves.
(e) The candidates’ printout should be signed by the supervisor.
(f) Schools should ensure that no candidate brings in any storage media (e.g. flash drive, compact disk, etc) into the examination hall.
(3)
ASSISTANCE TO CANDIDATES
9. The purpose of the practical Computer Studies test is to find out whether candidates can carry out simple practical work themselves.
The Examiner is aware that a candidate sometimes may not be able to show his/her practical ability owing to his/her failure to understand some points in the theory of an experiment. If the Examiner is present in the laboratory/workshop, he should be prepared to give such a candidate a hint to enable him/her get on with the experiment. In order to overcome this difficulty, you are asked to cooperate with the Examiner to the extent of being ready to give (or to allow the Computer Studies teacher to give) a hint to candidates who is unable to proceed.
10. The following regulations must be strictly adhered to.
(a) No hint may be announced to the candidates as a whole.
(b) A candidate who is unable to proceed and requires assistance must come up to you and state his/her difficulty. The candidate should be told that the Examiner will be informed of any assistance given in this way.
(c) A note must be made, in the Report Form, of any assistance given to any candidate, with the name and index number of the candidate.
11. It is suggested that the following announcement be made to the candidates:
“The Examiner does not want you to waste your time through inability to proceed with the practicals. Therefore, any candidate, who is unable to proceed with a practical test after he/she has spent 15 minutes on it, may come to me and ask for help. I shall inform the Examiner any help be given in this way, and some marks may be lost for the help received.
You may ask me for any additional equipment which you think would improve the accuracy of your work, and you should state on your script how you used such equipment.”