Exams, Part 1

Extracted from the Examination Guidelines for Invigilators:

Part VI: Disciplinary Action for Breach of Rules and Regulations by Candidates
25. (b) Any breach of examination instructions, rules and regulations or parts thereof is a serious disciplinary offence, and candidates found guilty of such an offence shall be subject to an immediate disciplinary penalty as provided under Part V of the Disciplinary of Students Rules 1984.

Part VIII: Rules and Regulations for Candidates
27. (c) Candidates are not allowed to take into the examination hall/room, handphones, calculators, electronic diaries, purses and wallets, reference books (unless specified), booklets, diagrams or pieces of paper or any written material.

Part IX: Instruction to Candidates
37. Writing pads, booklets, pieces of paper, pictures, purses, handbags, handphones or any article on which writing is possible cannot be taken into the examination hall except stationery that is permitted by the Chief Invigilator. While in examination hall/room, candidates must not receive books, papers, booklets or pictures of any kind from anyone, but may receive these items from Invigilators authorised to do so by the Chief Invigilator.

Heard in the corridors this week, that a student was caught during one of the exams cheating using a smartphone containing pages and pages of notes.

“How could the student have slipped in the phone to the examination hall?”
“Apparently, now they are allowed to bring in their phones.”
“WTF?!”
“There were complaints in the previous semesters that some students lost the phones they left outside, so now we’re told to allow them to bring them in.”
“They already knew that phones weren’t allowed in the exam hall; it’s in the rules. So if they left their phones outside and they went missing, it’s not our problem. They shouldn’t have brought them in the first place.”
“Err...”