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Friday, April 30, 2004

5 craziest things students do during examinations:
1. smile at the teacher when the teacher walks in halfway to invigilate
2. ask for more paper and use it to draw a picture of the teacher
3. ask for paper and start recopying the whole essay because there was 45 minutes left
4. pick up the pencil box and put it to the ear like a handphone
5. use the unused paper to make paper balls and start playing the fool.

now let's examine the points above in detail.
Case Study: Ms Teo entering class 2A2.
Explanation and Elaboration:

1. smile at the teacher when the teacher walks into the class to invigilate halfway.
What happened here, was that i walked into 2A2. I am their geog teacher. The minute i stepped in, i saw at least 10 pupils smiling at me. oh wow. hello, this is your mid year exam paper, you still have the time to look up, smile and look down? fine. but this is considered very mild. let's look at point 2.

2. ask for more paper and use it to draw a picture of the teacher
One particular student, asked for pieces of paper, even when he had already finished and tied his script up using the string. out of curiousity, i lingered around his desk, trying to see what on earth he was up to. he covered that piece of paper effectively. and after i finished collecting the papers and was about to step out of the classroom, he ran up and said "cher, see i draw a picture of you leh." ah okay. i took a look at the picture and saw that there was absolutely no resemblance at all, but in order not to hurt him, i took the picture. it's lying on my desk now. shall remind him the next time i see him, not to do that during my geog paper. tsk.

3. ask for paper and start recopying the whole essay because there was 45 minutes left
This very hardworking boy, took 3 pieces of paper from me, and started recopying his essay and functional writing. why? all because he had 45 minutes left. i was like, "how the heck could he finish his compo and letter within 45 minutes?" it was absolutely insane. but then again, he could do whatever he liked i guess during his paper at his own time. he should be checking. if any of my sec ones did something like that, i would be the first to run after them with a chopper. heh.

4. pick up the pencil box and put it to the ear like a handphone
my geog rep, shannon, did exactly that and was grinning like an idiot, looking at me. i cocked my head as usual when i'm blur and tried to figure out what the heck was he trying to do when i decided to give up and let him play the clown. so as long as he dint make noise and distract the class, im fine with it. after all. i shouldnt be creating noise and distracting the rest of the students right? grin.

5. use the unused paper to make paper balls and start playing the fool.
The boys are guilty of this. they were throwing paper balls all around! what the heck. but then again. i gotta admit. i did this before as well.
cant quite remember if it was the last day of prelims or Alevels, the singaporeans seated from dewen onwards all the way to yanlian, we were fooling around with paper balls, but we were kicking it as soccer balls i think. did any of them fly into the air? i vaguely remember yanlian was aiming for xinxin but missed and hit jinyang instead, and jinyang joined in the game by using the paper ball to throw at someone else. come to think about it, i think i was worse than them. as in, our behaviour was noiser. yeah. oops. erm. so am i a crazy student as well? maybe i am. hahaha.

but invigilation is sooo boring! ah sigh. now i have 2 classes of free writing locked up in my drawer. and 5 classes of geog coming in next week.
somebody save me. whine.