Monday, December 13, 2010

Silence in Exams? Not here in Spain

An exam with a difference!!!

So today I had a test / exam in my Spanish.  Now Test / Exam to me means...you sit, you do your test, you do not talk, you do not look or show your papers to anyone else and if you are told not to use a dictionary...then you dont use a dictionary.

Well, I find it a real worry and funny at the same time.

In my class everyone gravatates towards their own, i.e all Chinese sit together, Germans Sit together, Polish, Russians, Hungarians etc...you just sit with each other.

To the left of me were, The Morocans, The Polish and the Russians.....The Morocann women arrived late and decided to strike up a conversation.  The Russian continually showed one another their answers and well the Polish had to win the award...

They spoke, asked each other the answers and words in Spanish and one sneekily placed her hand behind her chair, deep into her bag and pulled out A DICTIONARY! The teacher looked around and she quickly hid it down to her side as she was by the wall...how sneeky!!!

All this taking place whilst little law obiding English Citizen (me) sits there and quietly gets on with her test.

I phoned my husband when I finished... and you do have to laugh, but its a worry, a real worry that maybe some of "these professionals" arent really professionals and just cheated their way through exams and life.

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