Dear all
Currently at Exeter we allow non-native English speakers to bring a
dictionary with them to exams, provided it has been approved by their
School. However, we have had some issues over the last year or two where a
number of students have been found by the invigilators to have annotations
in their dictionaries that may have helped them in their exams (usually
formulae, often extremely well hidden). We have been asked whether we will
be able to supply dictionaries centrally in the exam halls so that students
cannot use them to hide notes in; however, this raises many issues (cost,
logistics, number of dictionaries and languages required, etc. etc.). I
would be interested to hear from anyone who has managed to make such a
system work for relatively large groups of students of different
nationalities in large, centrally run exam halls in which several different
papers are being sat. I would also like to hear from anyone who has decided
not to allow dictionaries in exams because of problems with notes being
written in them and whether this ruling caused any particular problems.
Many thanks,
Rachel
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Dr Rachel Leslie
Head of Registry Services
Northcote House
University of Exeter
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