Final exams 2018 Paper work Your Exams 2018

Final exams 2018

Paper work • “Your Exams 2018” – Read this carefully! – Fill in the card at the back and take into school on exam days. • This is the only piece of paper you can take in with you. • Exam timetable – Check and double check your personalised timetable. – See Mr Ross ASAP if you have any issues. – AAR pupils speak to Mrs Blair or Mr Ross if there any timetable questions. • “Exam? Ask Sam” – FAQs – Getting your results

Check your timetable • We will be using the Craig Mac. Lean Centre Sports Hall instead. • This shows as CMac. Lean or CMLC on all the exam paper work.

Check your timetable • In a few exams the Start time has been altered by 10 mins or so from the Main timetable produced by SQA. • This is shown in a different colour and in Bold on the Corridor Display. • See Mr Ross ASAP if you have any questions about your timetable!

Check your timetable • Languages exams have a “Reading and Writing” paper. – Unfortunately, the exam planning software creates a slot for a “Reading” and a “Writing” paper which can’t be removed. – The exam has been scheduled in the “Reading” time slot and “Writing” has been left blank. – You’ll get this message but don’t panic.

Alternative Assessment Arrangements • Some people get extra time. • If you have use of a computer in the exams and have not been put – Please compare this against the Master in the Library, see Mr Timetable in the Corridor. Ross ASAP. – If you think you’ve not been given the correct time allocation, please see Mr Ross or Mrs Blair ASAP.

Communication during Home Study • Call Mr Ross, Mrs Mc. Gonigal or Mr Magowan if there any problems. • We will use the noticeboard in the corridor, the school web site and Facebook to keep you up to date. – Please check these regularly.

Exam day • Meet in the Craig Mac. Lean Centre’s reception. – If you have Alternative Arrangements, you can head off from there. • Wear School Uniform. – It’s about mindset. • Get there early – You need to be registered, sitting in your seat and ready to go when the official exam time starts. – We can’t easily adjust times by a few minutes like the prelim. • Invigilators – Are there to help as well as monitor. – If you’re unwell, need the toilet, etc. let them know ASAP. – They are in charge once you step into the exam room. • Use blue or black ink – Some exams require HB pencils. – Do not use gel pens!

Where is my exam?

What if? • I’m late… – Report to the office. – You can be let into the exam (provided no one has left by this time) – You will not get any extra time to catch up on what you missed • I’m unwell before the exam… – Call the school ASAP • I’m unwell during the exam… – Let the invigilator know ASAP • I need the toilet… – Go before – Ask the invigilator if you’re bursting • I finish early… – It is at the invigilators discretion whether you are allowed out early. – Wait quietly and patiently if you are not allowed out early – don’t disrupt your class mates!

What if? • There’s a fire alarm. – Stay quietly in the room until instructed. – If and when instructed, draw a line under your work and follow the instructor out of the exam room. – Exam candidates congregate on sports field next to the STEM building – DO NOT talk to anyone, DO NOT text, etc. • The exam rules apply here in the same way they do in the exam room.

DOs and DON’Ts • Read “Your Exams 2017” carefully • Look at the large poster on the noticeboard outside the Assembly Hall

Moving around the building • Think about noise levels around the exam rooms when entering and leaving. • When yellow exam signs are up you can’t enter an area.

Getting to and from school • Thursday 4 May is an In-service Day. • Nat 5 Music and Higher Latin are scheduled to start at 09: 00. – Service busses will be running – Everyone who takes the smaller busses in has made alternative arrangements to the best of my knowledge. – Exam start times have been moved to 09: 10 “just in case” • The Canteen will be closed! – Bring snack/lunch!!

Getting to and from school • Friday 5/5/17 = Nat 5 Maths finishes at 15: 50 • Friday 26/5/17 = Nat 5 Geography finishes at 14: 45 • The 16: 00 Service busses will take most pupils home. – I have spoken to everyone who takes smaller busses and they are okay for getting home/to family after the exams

Exceptional Circumstances • If you are ill or something major happens on the day of an exam let us know ASAP! • You have options: – Sit the exam and try your best. – Don’t sit it which will require a Doctor’s medical line. • A note from Mum is not enough! • The school will send away other evidence of your work to bolster what you did in the exam or to show what you can do if you didn’t sit it. – It is better to try than not turn up.

PRS and RPA • Post Results Service – This is the new version of “Appeals”. – We’ll issue more on it after Easter. – If the school feels your result is clearly not what was expected and we think your marker may have made a mistake, we can ask SQA to remark it. • Recognising Positive Achievement – If things go wrong in your Nat 5, we can alter things to get you a Nat 4 overall Award. – This is the last year of RPA.

School website • There’s a lot in this powerpoint. • I’ve put it on the school website to make it easier to remember it.

You CAN do it!