Matric exams start this week – with strict new rules around WhatsApp and messaging

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Matric exams start this week – with strict new rules around WhatsApp and messaging

South Africa's government schools will commence with the National Senior Certificate examinations on Wednesday (27 October), with the Department of Education introducing strict rules to ensure that the matric examinations are fair.

 

[azbob]

he register will require all candidates to record all details of the cellphone or any other electronic device that they will be using during the examination period.”

Why are cellphones allowed in the exam hall?

 

[neoprema]

Why are cellphones allowed in the exam hall?

Calculators?

 

[PrimeSteak]

Why are cellphones allowed in the exam hall?

Not usually, seems like a new thing. I mean when I had to write last year you had to hand them in (if you had one on you anyway) before you sat down in the exam hall, otherwise, if they found a phone on you while writing, you're screwed.

 

[azbob]

Not usually, seems like a new thing. I mean when I had to write last year you had to hand them in (if you had one on you anyway) before you sat down in the exam hall, otherwise, if they found a phone on you while writing, you're screwed.

What about smart watches?

 

[PrimeSteak]

What about smart watches?

Also had to be handed in, only normal watches were allowed. Calculators weren't allowed to have covers either...

 

[R13...]

Calculators?

Get a real calculator. This is a bad idea.

 

[CataclysmZA]

Why are cellphones allowed in the exam hall?

Some examinations have rules allowing for textbooks to be kept as a reference, IIRC. Doesn't apply to all schools.

Since many schools now have digital textbooks on tablets and phones, it's necessary to register them.

 

[ADrunkTeddyBear]

Im feeling old here. When I was in school. Phones werent allowed at all. And if you were caught with one anytime you only got it back after the term had ended....

 

[neoprema]

Get a real calculator. This is a bad idea.

Is it?

How many of us that need to do anything today say "Oh, I won't use Google because I was forced to know how to work this out in my head in school, so let me shutdown the computer, hide the phone and get a piece of paper and quickly work this problem out...."

 

[Mystic Twilight]

Calculators?

Schools have always used dedicated scientific calculators, so can't see why this would become applicable.

 

[azbob]

Calculators?

I thought you were joking.

 

[R13...]

Some examinations have rules allowing for textbooks to be kept as a reference, IIRC. Doesn't apply to all schools.

Since many schools now have digital textbooks on tablets and phones, it's necessary to register them.

Do they have open book exams in matric these days?

 

[CataclysmZA]

Do they have open book exams in matric these days?

I'm not sure about today. When I was in matric, some subjects like music and woodworking allowed textbooks in with you?

I never took them myself, just vaguely remember my friends talking about it.

 

[Other Pineapple Smurf]

Im feeling old here. When I was in school. Phones werent allowed at all. And if you were caught with one anytime you only got it back after the term had ended....

Back in my days, it would have been hard to sneak a phone in and a fax machine would have been too obvious.