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Title: Erasable pens for exams?
Post by: soccerboi on June 03, 2012, 06:12:13 pm
I like using the pilot friction pen, but there's a possibility of it fading away, so i'm not sure if i should use it. I've read that it only fades at temperatures of 65 degress so it's probably unlikely that it will fade on our exam right? What do you guys think?
Title: Re: Erasable pens for exams?
Post by: Stick on June 03, 2012, 06:40:58 pm
To be safe, don't use one. They smudge quite easily and you don't want to risk it fading after you've handed it in. If the exam is not marked on a computer screen, you probably wouldn't want your responses to be erasable anyway, just in case an examiner decides to change your answers.

Think about what you will write in the exam before you put it down on paper and if you make a mistake, just neatly cross it out with a ruler. :)
Title: Re: Erasable pens for exams?
Post by: Nintendo6T4 on June 04, 2012, 01:26:27 pm
I like using the pilot friction pen, but there's a possibility of it fading away, so i'm not sure if i should use it. I've read that it only fades at temperatures of 65 degress so it's probably unlikely that it will fade on our exam right? What do you guys think?

Yeah, don't. If your exam room gets as boiling hot as ours did in the tech-active Methods exam last year, everything you write will disappear immediately :P
Title: Re: Erasable pens for exams?
Post by: JellyDonut on June 04, 2012, 04:55:12 pm
This is God tier Pilot pen. Do not compromise

(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jLqEddm0EiI/TxXhSaLJWuI/AAAAAAAAArM/MY113NUSJwg/s1600/Pilot-G2-07-retractable-0.5-mm-encre-gel-noir.jpg)
Title: Re: Erasable pens for exams?
Post by: golden on June 05, 2012, 02:50:49 pm
What happened to the humble kilometrico lol.
Title: Re: Erasable pens for exams?
Post by: paulsterio on June 05, 2012, 03:18:28 pm
you probably wouldn't want your responses to be erasable anyway, just in case an examiner decides to change your answers.

I remember that a while ago you claimed that music pirates support terrorist organisations, now it's this?
Where do you get this information from?
Title: Re: Erasable pens for exams?
Post by: golden on June 05, 2012, 05:23:59 pm
To be safe, don't use one. They smudge quite easily and you don't want to risk it fading after you've handed it in. If the exam is not marked on a computer screen, you probably wouldn't want your responses to be erasable anyway, just in case an examiner decides to change your answers.

Think about what you will write in the exam before you put it down on paper and if you make a mistake, just neatly cross it out with a ruler. :)

Why would an examiner want to do that?
Title: Re: Erasable pens for exams?
Post by: Stick on June 05, 2012, 09:06:45 pm
It's an extremely rare occurrence, but I would never risk using anything where my answers could potentially be changed. Even for Maths, I've been using a pen.
Title: Re: Erasable pens for exams?
Post by: ecvkcuf on June 05, 2012, 09:10:47 pm
Are you allowed to use a pencil?

I never got my pen license back in Primary School so all the years I have been a rebel. My hand writing is putrid and I'm afraid I will be making way too many mistakes .. I can't afford an erasable pen because I'm cheap.
Title: Re: Erasable pens for exams?
Post by: paulsterio on June 06, 2012, 12:38:04 pm
It's an extremely rare occurrence, but I would never risk using anything where my answers could potentially be changed. Even for Maths, I've been using a pen.

Extremely rare occurence means that it's happenned in the past - do explain.
Title: Re: Erasable pens for exams?
Post by: Stick on June 06, 2012, 05:47:16 pm
I don't think it's happened before, Paul. I'm just saying it's a potential possibility. Haha. :P
Title: Re: Erasable pens for exams?
Post by: WhoTookMyUsername on June 06, 2012, 06:50:20 pm
another possibility is that the examiner SWITCHES your paper with an identical blank paper with your label on it!
What are you going to do about that?
Maybe when you're looking at the time on the board a superviser will duck across your shoulder and cross an answer out!
Title: Re: Erasable pens for exams?
Post by: Russ on June 06, 2012, 06:57:46 pm
It's an extremely rare occurrence, but I would never risk using anything where my answers could potentially be changed. Even for Maths, I've been using a pen.

Extremely rare occurence means that it's happenned in the past - do explain.

It doesn't mean that at all.

If you use pencil in your exams at uni then examiners are allowed to refuse to mark them for this specific reason fyi