First Exam!

Jack is sitting his first ever test in proper exam conditions today. The group in which he's studying Biology are half way through the IGCSE course and it's half term next week, so they're all sitting a mid-term exam, using old official exam papers. Incredibly, although he lives in the country which tests its students more often that practically anywhere else in the world, because he's never been to school, this is his FIRST EVER EXAMINATION!

It's not going towards his final mark or anything, but it will be important in helping to determine which level of exam he's finally entered for and will give me some insight on his information retention under exam conditions.

I went through the whole list of rules about exams last night.

1. Never look at another student's paper, even just to see how far they've got.
2. Do not respond to anyone trying to communicate with you.
3. No noise at all.
4. Always read all the instructions before attempting to answer.
5. Put your name on the paper.
6. Allow sufficient time to be able to check all your work.
7. Listen to the invigilator.
8. Keep an eye on the clock and make sure that you don't spend too much time trying to complete an answer which is stumping you. etc etc

But he just did his whole eye-rolling, "Yes, Mum..." routine.

We'll see.

Oh, we certainly will.

This will be very interesting.