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Well done Aristotle and thanks for hosting and the mention Wi
Good luck with your exams. Did you do AQA chem paper 2? If so what did you think?
As a chem teacher I thought it was 'interesting' and will be a good differentiator

Thanks wil - I'll look into that. Good tip.

For the first 20 years or so of invigilating I did, walking up and down was compulsory, then the exam board - AQA - decided it was too distracting and we were told not to do it.

... of course, perhaps they had heard of "camp aisle".

I like the time stamp trick.
I’ve also just discovered that there is a “clip” tool in YouTube which allows you to make a link for a segment of the video starting and finishing where you wish.

Congrats aristo & thanks wil for taking your turn in the big chair.

In 30+ years of giving exams I never was given any guidance as to how to proctor them (as we would say over here). I did walk around some, but usually picked out 3 or 4 vantage points in the room that I would alternate between, so that I could see everyone. If someone was acting squirrelly or looking around too much I would go stand about 5 feet away from them until they knocked it off. In all those years I probably caught fewer than 10 people blatantly cheating. Taking their exam paper and kicking them out of the room seemed to have the desired effect on the rest of the students.

Congratulations Aristo - that was my favourite too. Thanks to Wil for hosting and good luck with the rest of the examinations.

Yikes. Thanks so much, wil, for the honor and for the fun prizes. Quite the wrap-up too. I always want to be that thorough but am often limited by my dinky little phone, as I will be next week out in Penobscot Bay. Imaginative clues all around.

And good luck with your exams. As buddy says, we call it proctoring. My eldest daughter went to Bryn Mawr, originally a Quaker school, with very high standards, where students were allowed to take exams on their own. I remember how she once said she was going to take a final on the train home for Christmas. When I asked if anyone ever cheated she was shocked, and said, “No one would EVER break the honor code!” Imagine what this world could be.

Jimmy - not AQA but OCR. From what I gather online they were quite different difficulty levels.

Aristo - if only the rules were so relaxed nowadays - you’re not even allowed an analogue watch in the room.

Amongst my students, cheating was the rule rather than the exception; on the other hand they nearly all came from countries where dishonesty is the only way to make a life for yourself. They did pose one question that really got me thinking though - why do we need to learn all this stuff? The important thing is that we know how and where to find the information/answer when we need it

geting, I suppose it depends on the subject being taught, and how your students intend to earn a living, but I taught finance, so I had two ready answers: 1) when you sit for the exams to get a professional certification like Chartered Financial Analyst or Certified Financial Planner, you aren't allowed to look stuff up, and 2) if you are sitting across from a client or a superior who asks you a question, you're not going to last long if you need to say, give me 20 minute so I can go look that up.