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What are you allowed to take into the exam?
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| Jonoplunk 2003-08-25, 9:10 am |
| What is the rule about taking paper and pen into the exam with you? With my last exam they wouldn't let me take pen and paper in and gave me a marker board and a felt tip pen with a nib the size of my thumb. Really not ideal, only gave me enough working space to work out one question. Surely you need a pen and paper to work out some of the IP subnetting stuff, and some of the other questions.
What is the MS ruling on this? | |
| jeff_j_black 2003-08-25, 1:30 pm |
| My last exam was my first experience with the erasable board thingy. The pen they gave me would not write on the board and I managed to get more ink on my hands than anything else, talk about a distraction.
I don't think you can BYO supplies to the exam room, however diabolical the test centers note taking implements might be! I think they have to be provided by the test center. Make sure to voice you displeasure about the erasable board to the vendor, I did.
The thing that really kinda got my goat was I did raise my hand on many occasions to try to get a different pen/board or whatever. The test administrator who was observing me via camera never came. I guess I was not being observed because at one point I got out of the chair, faced the camera, dropped the board and the pen on the floor and drew my finger accross my throat in a slicing motion. The exam I was taking was the 70-297 Design exam, taking notes would have made it go a lot easier. | |
| Tarzanboy 2003-08-25, 4:27 pm |
| You cannot bring your own supplies as much as you want to and inspite of how crappy a pen and board you might get.
Take an inventory of what you have while the exam admin is present and prior to you using any exam time. Make sure the pen works. Make sure that the pen works on the board. Make sure the pen has a small enough tip that you can write and read without it being billboard sized. If anything doesn't work, let them know right away and save yourself time and grief.
Also make note of any issues in the comments section of the exam.
Cheers,
TB | |
| Particle 2003-09-01, 11:05 am |
| Not heard of this board & marker pen before.
I've sat exams in 4 test centres in Scotland and they have provided an A4 pad and pen every time.
Good job, because I usually make good use of it. | |
| Jonoplunk 2003-09-01, 11:10 am |
| Well I got the board and marker again this time. And of course the marker had no nib at all. So I went and complained about it and the stupid woman goes and gives me a permanent marker pen instead. Third time lucky they gave me an erasable pen and a second board  ,as the first one now has the solution to one of the Subnetting questions permanently written on it
I did complain about this in the after test survey and I will be complaining to MS about this system as it just doesn't work! | |
| enforcer 2003-09-02, 7:53 am |
| I had the board and erasable pen in my last two exams, and found it a real pain in the Ass, as said previously, got more ink on me than the board.  |
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