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Title: can you use pacer in chemistry mid year 2010?
Post by: dennydenny on June 08, 2010, 12:02:29 pm
It'll be good if anyone can provide me with this information.
Thanks
Title: Re: can you use pacer in chemistry mid year 2010?
Post by: slothpomba on June 08, 2010, 12:14:11 pm
You can use pencil for the multiple choice, so i think pacer might work.

Use pen for the rest of the exam.
Title: Re: can you use pacer in chemistry mid year 2010?
Post by: Vadnal on June 08, 2010, 05:35:48 pm
Apparently you can, probably better to use a darker pencil for example 2B, so it shows up clearly when scanned.
Title: Re: can you use pacer in chemistry mid year 2010?
Post by: appianway on June 08, 2010, 05:36:49 pm
I wouldn't risk writing in pencil - the exams usually have enough space so that you can cross out any mistakes with one single line, and if everyone else is writing in pen I don't want examiners straining their eyes to see a scanned copy of my exam.
Title: Re: can you use pacer in chemistry mid year 2010?
Post by: Ilovemathsmeth on June 08, 2010, 05:42:26 pm
You can write in pencil. I wrote in pencil for all my exams except Psych short answer and English (frankly because writing long theoretical explanations in pencil is painful as opposed to pens) :)

And dw, appianway, it won't come up as a 'scanned copy' if you use a nice sharp pacer :)
Title: Re: can you use pacer in chemistry mid year 2010?
Post by: slothpomba on June 08, 2010, 07:13:32 pm
I had a bio examiner lecture us for bio revision, he was like think about it:
*The examiners are teachers
*So, they work during the day
*They mark at night, when its dark and theyre tired

Do you really want to make them squint at your pencil or smudged pencil when theyre tired and kinda cranky?
Title: Re: can you use pacer in chemistry mid year 2010?
Post by: Ilovemathsmeth on June 08, 2010, 11:41:49 pm
Yeah - don't use gray lead pencils in exams. Instead, use sharp 0.5 mm pacers. As you can see I'm a huge fan of pacers. =D