What happens during reading time in exams?
Reading time commences at the published exam start time and is 10 minutes in duration for all exams.
During reading time, students may:
- Read the exam question paper
- Complete student details on the required attendance form(s) and any answer booklets issued
- Make notes on the given scribble/scrap paper
- Annotate* the exam question paper (only in the case where the exam question paper is not also the answer paper)
*Annotation may include highlighting and underlining. It does not allow for Post It notes to be used.
- Open permitted books if it is an open book or part open book exam
During reading time, students are not allowed to:
- Make any annotations* in an answer booklet, on a multiple choice answer sheet, or the exam question paper if it is also where answers are to be written
|* in a part open book exam, any allowed reference books are not to be annotated, including the use of Post It notes
- Use their calculator
- Get up from their desk
- Lend or borrow items from other students (this is applicable for the duration of the exam)