Invigilators (Part II)

As I was saying, something about Mdm Rose happened yesterday. As you know, I was seated in front of the cluster of students, on the 1st row, I had a clear view of what the invigilators were doing at the tables right in front of the stage. After the collection of the scripts of HM to JT, I saw Mdm Rose’s “unique” way of counting the scripts. What did she do? Well…this is what happened:

Mdm Rose licked her finger once she counted every 10 (or is it 5?) scripts and dabbed it on the top right corner of the 10th (or 5th) script. I saw the whole procedure, and I was not the only one who saw it, some others from IT saw it too.

I told Eunice about this and she went, “Yeee… Better not touch *someone’s* script!” Well, I think some people do have that habit, but I strongly do not recommend anyone to follow.

I remembered another invigilator who had this other habit. Who is this invigilator? He’s none other than the black faced Mr Marcus Kuek. His face is ever that black, it’s even darker than Justice Bao’s face (and I‘m not talking about skin tone). He was invigilating my class for a short while, during the Physics paper, when Mdm Tan was away. He sat on an empty desk and rocked his feet on the empty chair.

Such actions are not advisable for a teacher. If students were to portray those same actions, do you think is reputable? I guess not. Mr Kuek better think twice (or trice or even four times and more) before he does those actions in front of students again.

One amusing invigilator was Mr Vincent So. He was the invigilator for CL listening comprehension. When he played the compact disc, there was some music at the introduction. He then asked the students sitting at the back of the class if they could hear it. They did hear it, and some wanted Mr So to fast forward so that they need not listen to the music. Mr So then commented, " Actually, this music quite nice what…” In the end, he did not fast forward the disc.

After the CL listening comprehension, it was only 10.50am. The compact disc played for less than half an hour. Mr So then told my class, “They said this paper is 1 hour leh”. The boys went groaning and complaining, saying that the paper had ended. Mr So went to double check with Ms Soh Guat Ee, who was invigilating 3JT, if my class could be dismissed. It turned out that we could.