Anna my mental picture was more like Dastardly & Mutley!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4v2mYglS1U

Sarah Cassel-Gerard

Examinations Officer

Esher College

Centre 64785

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Sent: 18 June 2018 16:51
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Hi Sarah

Ive got a mental picture now of a man running around scaring the pigeons outside the room – the other students will want special consideration for the man running around outside disturbing them.

I think if some of the people who wrote the JCQ regs worked in our centres for a season some of their regs would suddenly disappear.

Regards

Anna

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Sent: 18 June 2018 15:38
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Let me just say……..pigeons. A parent wanted to take time off work to come and stand outside and distract them from disturbing her son.

Funnily enough I haven’t felt as stressed this season and yet I agree, things have certainly ramped up! The same issues as everyone else really

· AA numbers through the roof

· Anxiety cases almost unmanageable

· Mental health issues in general increased ridiculously

· Rooming a nightmare

· Punctuality appalling

· Increasing sense of entitlement/wishing to complain

Let’s hope this is a rogue year!

Sarah Cassel-Gerard

Examinations Officer

Esher College

Centre 64785

020 8398 0291 x2531 (t)

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Sent: 18 June 2018 11:12
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Subject: This horrible awful exam series!!!!

Hi everyone

I'm wondering how you have found this exam series?

Between myself and my colleagues in my office we have a ridiculous number of years experience but we have truly found this year to be the most horrendous to date!

I think there are numerous reasons for this ranging from (but not limited to)....

longer papers with ever increasing numbers of students with extra time including 50%
we have high numbers of students with complex access arrangements - as I expect most colleges do
shortage of appropriate rooming
students feeling increasingly 'entitled' and also likely to complain (we've had a student who was typing complain that they were distracted by the noise of another student typing!!!!!)

Obviously these are issues that we all face each year, but for some reason this year it's gone mad. There seems to have been a real shift this year in the complexity and intensity. We've also noticed a change in attitude from the students (and subsequently the parents). They seem very keen to question/complain about every little thing - which obviously they should if something is wrong - but complaining because someone over the other side of the hall blew their nose or because a student left the room at the end of their exam (it distracted them apparently!) is driving us mad - and don't even get me started on the requests to be seated separately due to anxiety!

I'd be keen to hear your experiences of this series, if nothing else it would be nice to know that we aren't alone in thinking that this year has been awful.

Kind regards

Katie.

Katie Hill

Examinations & Assessments Manager

Portsmouth College

Tel: 023 92667521 ext 307

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