Online exam guideline

1. I will email students and their parents around April 4th to update them without Daylight savings confusion.

2. I will host a zoom meeting, where the students join individually and a pdf file with the questions will be put there for download. Students in year 10 or below do the Junior paper and students in year 11 or above do the Senior paper. NZ plus one to these.

3. The students write their answers on blank A4 pages and scan them at the end for submission and marking, preferably a new page for each question and not writing on the back of the pages

4. The zoom meeting will be recorded as the main form of supervision along with my staff in the meeting, there wont be a need to trouble teachers or parents. The students should sit away from the computer and full view of their environment is preferred. Though for next round if it is held offline, then invigilators will be needed. (Oct/Nov)

5. Given the short time, it might be best to prepare for the style and rules of the exam, I usually tell my students who are new to it not to spend too much time on question 7 and on the other end of the spectrum if you are trying to achieve an excellent score and you are familiar with the style, not to spend time doing question 1. For other questions there might be some legitimate choices based on the familiarity with the topic, for example many students skip the geometry questions because they are not well versed in it. Another form of preparation that is necessary is for lunch because it must be eaten during the exam if to be on time. Usual rules such as no calculators or electronic devices during the exam, and usually a pen and compass and ruler are all thats needed.

6. A scanning app like scannable would suffice, it uses the camera on the phone very efficiently. It also allows you to directly email the scans.

7. They may go to the toilet as they please but should private message one of the staff to note their absence, the shorter the better. Lunch should be had in view of the camera and best to have the camera see the a good part of the surrounding room as well as be far away enough to show the student not interacting with the computer.

8. The policies with cheating are that if there is suspected cheating, the local committee will presume innocence while the international committee will presume guilt, the practical consequence being that even without proof, a suspected student will not have their papers considered for international marking but are still eligible for local marking. (This is why offline exams are preferred, but as we have never tried in NT before this is a reasonable compromise).