Exams

No not mine I hasten to add!

Every summer I am an “expert” (their term not mine) during examinations leading to a commercial apprenticeship here in Geneva. First I help students pass their Oral exam and then I correct the exam papers with the teachers.

This year I am also a member of the Coordinating Committee so I had to scrutinize the (top secret) papers before they were submitted.

Yesterday I had to attend the written exams and be available to students who needed to ask questions during the exam (the idea being to help without giving the answers…)

I wasn’t quite prepared for the number of students who sat the exam but apparently there were more than 500.

Here is a photo to the left of me:

and another to the right:

I now have my already busy weekend to mark some of the papers which are re-marked by a teacher. Then a week later I meet with the committee to correct the corrections in final copy.

There were also more than 20 people hired to distribute the papers and check that nobody was cheating. One of the ladies told me that she has been doing this for 38 years!