first time was in 2013. second time was last year. both the first and second time are at secondary schools in tampines.
and the 3rd time, is of course at a school in the north. and it is at one of the most talked about schools, if you have been following the news. :p
so anyway, if you have not been following the news, these students (who are from sec 5) sat for the wrong maths paper 1, because the teacher of that school, who is one of the HODs, registered the paper of the wrong subject code.
how did the students realise? after the paper 1, when the students went back home and start to compare their answers from their friends of different schools, they realise that they actually sat for the wrong paper. they alerted my presiding examiner, and also alerted their form teacher, and shortly after that the principal knew about this matter and... you can guess the repercussions after that.
so the next day, when i go to tiong bahru to collect the exam papers, i was given the maths paper 2 of the correct subject code for these sec 5 students.
definitely the school have to do the necessary follow up, which is to work with cambridge to mark the paper 1 in such a way that the students will not be short changed. and the school also have to make a phone call to every single parent of these sec 5 students, to assure the parents that their children will not be short changed.
there were other incidents that also happened during the year end national exams.
the other major one actually happened at my previous workplace, when one of the private candidates actually use a bluetooth earpiece to communicate with his friends, during an english paper. he got caught by one of the invigilators.
the next one is during the english listening comprehension. there was actually an interference during the first 3 seconds of the broadcast. at first i was so worried, thinking that whether is there something wrong with the radios. but after checking with my friends who are also CPEs/PEs of various schools, then we found out that it is a nation wide problem. and hence the radio station replayed the broadcast again for the first passage, and as a result... the listening compre paper ended later... -.-'''
thank goodness after that... no major mishaps happened. and the national exams was finally concluded last friday. :)
