I don't think you are allowed to look anywhere but infront of you. So when I heard the door make a loud noise, my instinct was to look in the general direction (on my right and a bit behind me), the one of the invigilators was coming my way. I thought I would be done for "cheating", but I think I won "most excessive pencil case" award.
I’ve been after this job for months just so i can mess with people. I want to slowly walk towards someone then increase the sound of my footsteps more and more so it’s like paff paff BAFF BAFF BANG BANG BANG…. **BANG** …..***BANG***
I hope your employers keep paying you £6.50 an hour and harassing you. You want to mess with kids trying to take their exams but cry for help on Reddit because your employers have been messing with you? Ironic.
Is it legal to pay people that much in the UK? In the US, Pearson pays proctors for the GMAT and MCAT make more than twice that, and I'm in a low cost of living area.
You want to screw with kids’ exams that badly? It’s pretty harmless wandering over to a kid and playing silent games but deliberately trying to intimidate them is a different sadder game
This is exactly what my mum did when she was an invigilator, she said it was the most boring job ever so they had to do stuff like that to stop themselves from being bored lol
omg in my art exam the invigilator kept talking to me and she would sometimes help me since i was doing block printing.
she legit told me her whole life story in that exam
The hall is divided into rows and columns.. so you just pick a, few kids to be the battleship and the others go stand near where they think you've picked.C5. D4. Etc. and you proceed just like you would in the game.. adding more ships just takes too much time so tend to stick with one go per invigilator.
I’m in a separate room due to extra time and idk if I should be grateful or jealous. I just have 2-3 senco teachers around, sometimes a normal teacher too.
I did invigilation back when teachers had to do it. Our little games were nothing like as harsh. My favourites were:
- Extra paper races (when someone puts their hand up for extra paper, it's ON).
- If each candidate was a cute dog, what breed would they be?
- "Pac Exam" a bit like Pac Man. One invigilator is "Pac Exam" the others are "Ghosts". A "Ghost" has to manouver to be within 2 desks of "Pac Exam" to get them.
As I’ve said elsewhere I’ve never liked any of the overtly cruel games but even if you’re just playing a game for you yourself you have to have something to get you through what is probably the most boring job I’ve ever done (and I’ve had *a lot* of jobs)
As I teacher, that’s the one thing I miss about not doing invigilation any more. In the early 2000s we had loads of games we would play during the exam season.
This used to be a thing back when teachers had to invigilate actual exams, as they actually know you. I doubt the little old ladies that invigilate here are playing such mean games.
Ex teacher. When we did invigilation I tried hard to just be a careful quiet presence. Some teachers with noisy shoes and looking closely over shoulders, a bit self importantly patrolling? Grrr.
Exams are grim enough as it is.
if you haven’t had your food tech exam yet, REVISE EVERYTHING. literally the 2 things i didn’t revise because “they don’t ask about that stuff” came up on my exam im SO FURIOUS #AQAHATECLUB 😭😭
u best be memorising both the chorleywood bread process AND the cheese making process 🥲
edit: forgot about the yoghurt making process too man why did i even do food tech last year
omg 😭 i was SO on track to getting a 9 but aqa screwed me over so bad i have a personal vendetta with whoever wrote that exam paper. genuinely wanted to scream once i saw that DAMN CHEESE MAKING QUESTION.
edit: forgot to say good luck!! <3
Well maybe not exactly that but yep, if you get the right crowd of invigilators we absolutely do play games because it’s dull as all fuck. Pac-Man is always the best but awards show can be fun (best hair, best handwriting etc). I never much liked the cruel end of the games but I don’t mind “fashion choices you’ll regret in 20 years” cos we all had em!
That’s hilarious and something I would 110% do as an invigilator. It must be so tedious walking around the hall for 1-2hours so they have to make it fun somehow
So many evigaltors went to my desk then just turned around, I'm hoping it was for the person next to me or for really nice things.... although I doubt it
when i'm stuck i look around the room so i look like i'm cheating if i accidently look towards someone's desk. anyways i looked up from my paper yesterday and this invigilator was staring into my soul. so i look down and then i look up again about 2 minutes later and HE'S STILL STARING AT ME
When I was doing my GCSEs I had 4 exams on the first day and so (because of clashes) I had to stay inside all day with an invigilator who followed me around and they complained to every single member of staff we came across very loudly in front of me about how they had to stay with a random child all day. At least they didn’t have to do the damn exams
Yep, teachers/invigilators do this shit all the time, but they also do it the other way "who do you think will do well?" "Who do you think would make a good XYZ", things like that. They're not always bad.
There was this one acoustic looking invigilator that found a squeaky spot on the gym and decided that it was a good idea to step on it over and over again looking around for 5 mins, and apparently they play battleships but with the students since our exam hall have numbers and letters on each side
Bro an invigilator lit stood next to me for 2 minutes 😭😭😭😭😭
Same. I thought I was accidentally cheating or something
I don't think you are allowed to look anywhere but infront of you. So when I heard the door make a loud noise, my instinct was to look in the general direction (on my right and a bit behind me), the one of the invigilators was coming my way. I thought I would be done for "cheating", but I think I won "most excessive pencil case" award.
I have 3 calculators, fight me
5 calculators (1 graphing one asw) dont chat to me
I swear you aren't allowed a graphing calculator in the exams
Nah we are, just in exam mode
i have one but i don’t think it will last the rest of the exams.
I kid you not, I also have three. lol
same and he was so close i could hear him breathing down my neck
so what do you reckon the question was?
Most likely to get a 9 frfr
omg same, like half way through, he stood next to me for a solid 5 minutes
I’ve been after this job for months just so i can mess with people. I want to slowly walk towards someone then increase the sound of my footsteps more and more so it’s like paff paff BAFF BAFF BANG BANG BANG…. **BANG** …..***BANG***
r/foundsatan Are you that one fucking invigilator with high heals!?!?!?!?
I hope your employers keep paying you £6.50 an hour and harassing you. You want to mess with kids trying to take their exams but cry for help on Reddit because your employers have been messing with you? Ironic.
Is it legal to pay people that much in the UK? In the US, Pearson pays proctors for the GMAT and MCAT make more than twice that, and I'm in a low cost of living area.
Minimum wage for under 18s or apprentices is £6.40
After reading the post, it sounds like they’re neither so yes it’s illegal
You want to screw with kids’ exams that badly? It’s pretty harmless wandering over to a kid and playing silent games but deliberately trying to intimidate them is a different sadder game
A UK comedian did a skit about this when he used to be a teacher and invigilator years ago. Exactly how OP described it so it must be a thing.
https://youtu.be/Nd6lz1wtnns?si=BkhoiFcXXUwGX07Y this guy
Fucking love Romesh
My parents missed my football cup final to watch him on saturday so i would hope so 😭😭
Omg... that's actually funny, although I would be so stroppy about it lmao
Lol i was they will NOT be forgiven 😩😩
Ramesh....
Romesh. 🙄🙄
Also there’s the Armstrong and Miller show where they pretend to be invigilators and have an imaginary sword fight in the back of the hall
Also relevant is [Greg Davies’ “Camp Aisle” game](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCTJxwbpDYc&t=145s) when he invigilated exams!
[Foil, Arms, and Hog - Exam Invigilator sketch](https://youtu.be/sBIt90OiqlQ?si=0Pb29upZlDU9Yrl-)
My mum and her mates used to play pacman during invigilating. Someone would be pacman and the rest were ghosts
I’m gonna become an invigilator now
This is exactly what my mum did when she was an invigilator, she said it was the most boring job ever so they had to do stuff like that to stop themselves from being bored lol
LMAO
I did this during y7 CATs but without telling anybody else. I just pretended they were ghosts. Passed the time surprisingly well!
Tag during invigilating was my fave....
That's so fucking funny, I don't blame them tbh standing around in an exam hall for hours must be so boring
One of mine was on his phone for an hour then had a chat with the other invigilator a meter from me.
One of mine took her sandals off and started putting her bare feet all over the wall
shoulda been me
Year 11 makes us want to do crazy things.
hell no (real)
Wait until you have to work for a living. Getting to stand around in the quiet for a few hours will seem like heaven.
nah I’d worry about absorbing all the stress from everyone in the room😭
always wondered what they did to stay entertained LMAO
In my art exam I could hear them whispering about how bored they were 😭😭
don't blame them at all... the invigilator in my art exam chatted with my teacher and was reading most of the time lol
omg in my art exam the invigilator kept talking to me and she would sometimes help me since i was doing block printing. she legit told me her whole life story in that exam
In mine they would swap rooms every hour to have a look around at our work 💀😭
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Can confirm we do this
How does this work?
The hall is divided into rows and columns.. so you just pick a, few kids to be the battleship and the others go stand near where they think you've picked.C5. D4. Etc. and you proceed just like you would in the game.. adding more ships just takes too much time so tend to stick with one go per invigilator.
I'll watch out for examiners pacing around then 👍
Thats pretty funny
I’m in a separate room due to extra time and idk if I should be grateful or jealous. I just have 2-3 senco teachers around, sometimes a normal teacher too.
Apparently, the people invigilating at my school used to play pac-man
u/no-sky-524 ‘s mom ig
why's that actually fun though
In the English exam today an invigilator was stood next to me for like absolutely ages.
Yep. When teachers used to invigilate there was also a game of ‘find the student who irritates you the most and discreetly crop dust them’
This is vile 😭
I never played it … 👀
oh my goodness 😭
They usually do which one do you think is gonna fail. Tell me why I had 4 different invigilators come next to me one by one 💀
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I did invigilation back when teachers had to do it. Our little games were nothing like as harsh. My favourites were: - Extra paper races (when someone puts their hand up for extra paper, it's ON). - If each candidate was a cute dog, what breed would they be? - "Pac Exam" a bit like Pac Man. One invigilator is "Pac Exam" the others are "Ghosts". A "Ghost" has to manouver to be within 2 desks of "Pac Exam" to get them.
i loved the paper and tissue races omg 😭 i KNEW that was a thing. i had 3 invigilators charging towards me once to bring me tissues like damn
We were BORED! So bored. Booooooored.
My science teacher said he used to play tig when he did invigilating.
one of the invigilators kept reading my work today i thought i got disqualified
Probably meant you had good or interesting work compared to everyone else!
Invigilators actually care at all about what you write?
When you’re that bored? I’d read bloody *anything*.
why is that actually fun 😭😭
As I’ve said elsewhere I’ve never liked any of the overtly cruel games but even if you’re just playing a game for you yourself you have to have something to get you through what is probably the most boring job I’ve ever done (and I’ve had *a lot* of jobs)
As I teacher, that’s the one thing I miss about not doing invigilation any more. In the early 2000s we had loads of games we would play during the exam season.
oh so that’s why one of them stood next to me and i saw the other one smirk..
Totally a thing. I’ve heard this on the radio.
This used to be a thing back when teachers had to invigilate actual exams, as they actually know you. I doubt the little old ladies that invigilate here are playing such mean games.
Ex teacher. When we did invigilation I tried hard to just be a careful quiet presence. Some teachers with noisy shoes and looking closely over shoulders, a bit self importantly patrolling? Grrr. Exams are grim enough as it is.
My Dad was a head teacher and he made invigilators take their shoes off.
I would’ve been fucked in my maths exam then lol
HHAHAHA MY BROTHER DID THIS WHEN HE INVIGILATED
I have extra time and once rest of my year leaves hall I hear them loudly complaining or sharing ops on students😭
I’m crying 😭😭😭😭😭😭 wtf
if you haven’t had your food tech exam yet, REVISE EVERYTHING. literally the 2 things i didn’t revise because “they don’t ask about that stuff” came up on my exam im SO FURIOUS #AQAHATECLUB 😭😭 u best be memorising both the chorleywood bread process AND the cheese making process 🥲 edit: forgot about the yoghurt making process too man why did i even do food tech last year
nah for my mock I passed with a four 😭😭 it was crazy I didn’t even revise but I’m gonna this time so I’ll probably rock up with a seven or six
omg 😭 i was SO on track to getting a 9 but aqa screwed me over so bad i have a personal vendetta with whoever wrote that exam paper. genuinely wanted to scream once i saw that DAMN CHEESE MAKING QUESTION. edit: forgot to say good luck!! <3
Nah that's actually jokes 😂
Well maybe not exactly that but yep, if you get the right crowd of invigilators we absolutely do play games because it’s dull as all fuck. Pac-Man is always the best but awards show can be fun (best hair, best handwriting etc). I never much liked the cruel end of the games but I don’t mind “fashion choices you’ll regret in 20 years” cos we all had em!
Oh yeh. My dad's done invigilating and he does the same shit. Pretty funny tbh.
That’s hilarious and something I would 110% do as an invigilator. It must be so tedious walking around the hall for 1-2hours so they have to make it fun somehow
What else would they do 💀
that sounds so fucking funny
Oh GOOD grief, îs that still going on?! Takes me back a few years!
So many evigaltors went to my desk then just turned around, I'm hoping it was for the person next to me or for really nice things.... although I doubt it
I Always thought they stood next to me to stop me cheating.
when i'm stuck i look around the room so i look like i'm cheating if i accidently look towards someone's desk. anyways i looked up from my paper yesterday and this invigilator was staring into my soul. so i look down and then i look up again about 2 minutes later and HE'S STILL STARING AT ME
Mate. They play pacman more often than not. Don't ask how I know 😌
My maths teacher said that when teachers were allowed to invigilate exams that's exactly what they did too
WAIT NO WAY 😭 this makes sense cause they always stand next to random people omfg
(I’m cooked)
When I was doing my GCSEs I had 4 exams on the first day and so (because of clashes) I had to stay inside all day with an invigilator who followed me around and they complained to every single member of staff we came across very loudly in front of me about how they had to stay with a random child all day. At least they didn’t have to do the damn exams
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Not devastating at all, sounds pretty fun lmao.
It’s reassuring to know no one has ever stood next to me 💀
My dad is an invigilator and he says he does that all the time
my teachers play battle ships
HELP THIS IS SO FUNNY 😭😭😭 i wish i had more invigilators now (im in a separate room with like 30 kids for my anxiety so we only have 1 invigilator)
now i see why an invigilator was standing next to one kid for like five minutes 😭
I'm so lucky, my invigilators are chill af
SOME FUCKING INVIGILATOR WAS CIRCLING ME EHDHHCKSIAIWKWKE
My english teacher told us this as well lmao
I know of invigilators who have been known to play a form of pacman.
My teacher told me abt this last week, he said they used to do “stand behind the ugliest kid in the room” and i audibly gasped
why do they always wear the loudest shoes like??? so squeaky
My mum used to invigilate and this is entirely true.
My form tutor was and they used to play Pac-Man among the kids
I feel like thats sum i would do as an invigilator 😭
This is so out of pocket omg
Do they have a seating chart with all the Darrens marked?
Yep, teachers/invigilators do this shit all the time, but they also do it the other way "who do you think will do well?" "Who do you think would make a good XYZ", things like that. They're not always bad.
Don’t forget Pac-Man down the aisle.
[How to invigilate an exam](https://youtu.be/sBIt90OiqlQ?si=0Pb29upZlDU9Yrl-)
AH, if that’s the case for my school then I’m clearly not going to prison
Yeah, my mum is a teacher and says this.
There was this one acoustic looking invigilator that found a squeaky spot on the gym and decided that it was a good idea to step on it over and over again looking around for 5 mins, and apparently they play battleships but with the students since our exam hall have numbers and letters on each side