Pencil or Pen for Section 1?

[Sheen]

because on the exam 1 report this year, the examiners said:
"This year all student papers were scanned and presented to assessors to mark online. Students must use blue or black
pen in Section A. Other coloured pens or pencil may not show up when the paper is scanned."
source: http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/vcaa/vce/studies/physics/assessreports/2010/physics1_assessrep_10.pdf
and ppl said the there is a line of words saying use a pen for section 1 in the instruction box for this exam(not on exam 1 i checked).

IM PANICING!!!!!!!!!!

anyone know whats the consequences for having EVERY SINGLE WORD in PENCIL??
god help me...

[Xavier1234]

it didnt say anything like that. even at the front of the paper, thats the first thing i checked.

[bblovee]

it did say use black or blue pen
but it doesnt say, you MUST use black or blue pen ONLY
i changed between pen and pencil LOL
used pen for the worded questions

[A_hma_d]

shittt.. u r kidding me.. shit ..
i used pencil for most ....

[Xavier1234]

it did say use black or blue pen
but it doesnt say, you MUST use black or blue pen ONLY
i changed between pen and pencil LOL
used pen for the worded questions

did it? lol? IM SORRY VN IM a fucking fail. but yeah same i used pen on worded.

[Whatlol]

I used pen for everything

[minimum]

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because on the exam 1 report this year, the examiners said:
"This year all student papers were scanned and presented to assessors to mark online. Students must use blue or black
pen in Section A. Other coloured pens or pencil may not show up when the paper is scanned."
source: http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/vcaa/vce/studies/physics/assessreports/2010/physics1_assessrep_10.pdf
and ppl said the there is a line of words saying use a pen for section 1 in the instruction box for this exam(not on exam 1 i checked).

IM PANICING!!!!!!!!!!

anyone know whats the consequences for having EVERY SINGLE WORD in PENCIL??
god help me...

My friend wrote an email to VCAA regarding that.
i reply they said "It is advised you use a blue or black pen"

so you did not HAVE to use it. I wrote mine in pencil too.
I write quite dark soo im pretty sure it'll show up when scanned.

And if is was absolutely necessary then the ladies present during the exam wont ask "who needs a pencil?"

[3Xamz]

Yeah I raised this issue earlier this morning before going into the exam here on the forums and people said different things.

I asked the examiner and they stressed you had to use a pen, and made an annoucement to everyone else after my inquiry.
I'm sure they wouldn't fail your or anything..probably send out another warning in the assesessment report and only be critical next year.


They did not emphasize it enough for them to fail us because we used a pencil.

[John President]

Meh, the same scan format applied in the midyears, I used pencil then and I was fine.

And as if they'd fail a massive proportion of students just for using pencil instead of pen

[bblovee]

i dont even get why they need to scan our exam to send to other assessors
cos apparently different assessors now mark bits and pieces of your paper... which is a bit impractical IMO..
anyway, i agree that if your pencil was dark enough, it should show up in the scanned copy

besides the supervisors at my school didn't even tell us anything about it, i'll blame it on them if worst comes to worst :p

[ks04]

If the scanners dont pick up the writting on the exam the examiners request to see the original and mark it seperatly - we were told this at a lecture by one of the examiners.  No big deal at all.