During the Exams
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- Check your timetable! Make sure you have your student ID card, etc.
- Remember to set your alarm clock if you have a morning exam! Make sure you know when and where you’re exams are on and plan to be there on time – if you’re more than 30 minutes late you won’t be admitted or If another student has left before you arrive you cannot be admitted. If you are unsure of where to go and when contact your Exams office (DIT Exams Offices )
- Have something to eat and drink before you go into the exam
- Take pens that work / pencils / approved calculator / water and tissues with you – in other words have the equipment that you need.
- Go to the loo before your exam!
- Leave your phone at home, or switched off in your bag (see Breaches of the Regs)
- Double check ‘hand up’ / submission dates for projects, essay and assignments – you will be deducted marks if you are late – the exact penalties should be on the brief or in your Student Handbook. If you’re sick or have other difficulties fill out the PC1 form.
- Don’t bring notes or any other prohibited material to the exam – it’s unfair and a serious breach of the Regulations and if you’re caught you could get thrown out of college. THIS INCLUDES MOBILE PHONES – if you’re found with a phone on your person in the exam (accidentally or on purpose) it will be confiscated and you will have to go before a Panel of Enquiry and you may well be penalised.
- Make sure your assignments are all your own work – plagiarism and sloppy citing / referencing are all breaches of the General Assesssment Regulations.
- If you break your arm, sprain your wrist or have some sort of accident that badly affects your performance in an exam or in finishing an assignment make sure to contact the DIT Health Centres and they will liaise with your Exams Office so that you get the appropriate support.
- Email your tutor and lecturers also to keep all the people in the loop. If you have to defer your next attempt should be considered a first sitting. Use the PC1 form again here.
