Pens Down (1 Viewer)

Haaalp

Member
Joined
Oct 17, 2011
Messages
32
Gender
Female
HSC
2011
Pens Down. What does that mean specifically? No more writing what so ever or just none of the work section. Had a girl in my year continue writing her student numbers/centre numbers after they said it. They all rushed over telling her to stop but she continued.
 

slyhunter

Retired
Joined
May 17, 2009
Messages
6,803
Gender
Male
HSC
2011
No more writing.

Students are allowed to fill in details like student number etc. if a supervisor is watching over them.

My school anyway.
 

BloomyLove

HSC Hater
Joined
Sep 11, 2009
Messages
94
Gender
Female
HSC
2011
Pens Down. What does that mean specifically? No more writing what so ever or just none of the work section. Had a girl in my year continue writing her student numbers/centre numbers after they said it. They all rushed over telling her to stop but she continued.
Pens down, means pens down. They gave us time after the exam to make sure our student numbers/school numbers were on each page and all the details are filled in correctly, they won't sign you off otherwise, so i'd wait.

This happened to me in a trial.
 

Haaalp

Member
Joined
Oct 17, 2011
Messages
32
Gender
Female
HSC
2011
We had to have them all filled in by the end. Signed each of us off as we finished; bit annoying with all the movement and talking.
 

D94

New Member
Joined
Oct 5, 2011
Messages
4,423
Gender
Male
HSC
N/A
It was all pens down, and then pens up again to fill in numbers etc. when the supervisors were watching.
 

michaeljennings

Active Member
Joined
Oct 11, 2009
Messages
2,074
Location
Sydney
Gender
Male
HSC
2011
This occurred to me earlier, but when the supervisors are coming around to make sure all your papers are in order, at my school there are 200 people in my grade so the room is huge and this process took a long time. I realised after the exam that it would be really easy for some people to just keep writing stuff down while the supervisors arent looking. And unlike school exams, no one is going to dob on the person cheating because the better your school goes the better you go for the hsc... Just an interesting thought. Not that im gonna cheat
 
E

Effekt

Guest
We were never given time to fill in the booklets so i just filled my student number etc in after they said pens down after all she was telling people to make adjustments so i don't see why it matters.
 

aphorae

Member
Joined
May 9, 2011
Messages
534
Gender
Female
HSC
2011
Uni Grad
2017
Well it's not like you're going to make her hand in a paper without her number. Personally I waited til the end too, what a waste of time writing numbers + crap. They let us fill in most of it at the beginning though.
 

jamesfirst

Active Member
Joined
Jan 30, 2010
Messages
2,005
Gender
Male
HSC
2011
lol man. When they said pens down, I spent 5 min editing my mistakes because they were going through how many booklets we've used...


so I might as well take full advantage of it... hopefully happens tmr as well :)
 

harrisony

goodbye cruel world
Joined
Jun 1, 2009
Messages
3,596
Gender
Undisclosed
HSC
N/A
lol man. When they said pens down, I spent 5 min editing my mistakes because they were going through how many booklets we've used...


so I might as well take full advantage of it... hopefully happens tmr as well :)
Pretty easy to take a screenshot of this post + I can see your school and name. I'm sure the board would love to know about this.
 

D94

New Member
Joined
Oct 5, 2011
Messages
4,423
Gender
Male
HSC
N/A
Pretty easy to take a screenshot of this post + I can see your school and name. I'm sure the board would love to know about this.
But there doesn't have to be any truth associated with what he said though.

I'm a terrorist. I'm sure the AFP would love to know about this.

:)
 

HyperComplexxx

ლ(ಠ_ಠ ლ)
Joined
Jan 12, 2011
Messages
460
Location
behind you
Gender
Undisclosed
HSC
2011
Pens down was so scary, I had one sentence left to complete off my masterpiece... The granny supervisors were walking around slowly like cripples, I looked around and close was clear. ZOOM ZOOM ZOOM, scribbled a 22 letter sentence lol
 

harrisony

goodbye cruel world
Joined
Jun 1, 2009
Messages
3,596
Gender
Undisclosed
HSC
N/A
But there doesn't have to be any truth associated with what he said though.

I'm a terrorist. I'm sure the AFP would love to know about this.

:)
A real terrorist wouldnt admit it on a public forum


edit: you do know the real board of studies monitors this forum
 
Last edited:

jamesfirst

Active Member
Joined
Jan 30, 2010
Messages
2,005
Gender
Male
HSC
2011
I was like fark when she said pens down. But I was checking my student number and dates and stuff and saw some mistake (didnt add a letter in a word). So corrected a few.
 

D94

New Member
Joined
Oct 5, 2011
Messages
4,423
Gender
Male
HSC
N/A
A real terrorist wouldnt admit it on a public forum


edit: you do know the real board of studies monitors this forum
More to the point, until there is better evidence, I don't think it's enough to speculate, even though it probably did occur. Noting the BOS rules, "all claims must be substantiated", there's not much evidence to go on.
 

jamesfirst

Active Member
Joined
Jan 30, 2010
Messages
2,005
Gender
Male
HSC
2011
In the beginning


I thought the lady said that reading begins now and I was looking through the first text until this lady came up to me and said it has not begun.


I was like wt and looked around and realised that I was the only one with the paper open. embarrassing moment. .
 

Users Who Are Viewing This Thread (Users: 0, Guests: 1)

Top