"Mun thinks that invigilating is worse than watching paint dry!!"
(My FB profile status earlier today)
It was horrible!!! I was on campus before 7 am but the exams were from 2 - half 4. By 3:30 pm, i was dying in the exam hall!
We're not allowed to sit and not allowed to read. So we just walk around, stand around and watch the minutes go - very, extremely painfully slowly.
Initially, it wasn't so bad. I started them off and stood in front, eyeing them like an eagle. After wat seemed like an eternity, i glanced at the clock behind and to my horror, only 10 minutes had passed!!!!!
How bad was it? I was so glad whenever a guy wanted to go to the toilet - anything to get me out of the room!!!! And i was wishing that i could grab an answer book, take a seat and join them in taking the test!!!
But it wasn't really all bad. It was fun to watch them students! There was Jason** who reminded me of Linus from Peanuts! He had this little blue towel with him to wipe the sweat off his hands occasionally. There was Hannah** who kept on stroking her hair when she pauses to think wat to write next. Shona** would have her mouth slightly opened as she scribbles on the answer sheet.
And speaking of scribbling, Tom** and Ellen** were like racing with each other, writing furiously from the beginning to the end - while Ethan** was cool as ice, writing slowly and pausing elegantly to compose his thoughts.
Martin** rested his head on his hand from the start to end while Jenny** would take the sleeve of her sweater to cover her nose and mouth while thinking. Charlene would be peering thru the fringe of her hair (altho much later, she finally push it behind her ears) while Alison** would take little sips of water and keep it in her puffed cheeks for a long time, looking quite cute and ridiculous at the same time!
Yes, that's how bored i was - these little details were the only things which kept me going! And i've got 2 more of these kind of sessions to endure!!!!
*Taken from the movie Xanadu where she also acted in.
**Names of the students have been changed.
2 comments:
Well, invigilating is indeed boring, and really wasting a lot of time. (I'm sorry for feeling that way, just that there seemed to have too many things to do than just letting time flow by, but I guess that is a kind of a training.)
Anyway, this is what I used for countering the boredom -- walking from the first roll to the last, how many steps did you take? and how much time did you take? Then calculate the amount of calories that you have burnt. Man, great exercise, to mental and to physical. hahahaha...
Watching the students answering the questions was priceless, especially when you are invigilating your own papers. :p
You invigilate your own papers???? 0_o
how can they allow that? we're not allowed to invigilate our own papers.
in fact, back in uni, they get lects from other faculties/departments to invigilate us.
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