Taking Item into the Exam
Calculators
Basic (i.e. non-programmable) calculators may be used in examinations, unless specifically stated on the examination paper. In some examinations, there may be a restriction on the type of calculator you are allowed to use. Miniature information processors for the storing of information are not permitted and their use will be regarded as cheating.
Some schools have an authorization process for calculators which you must follow. It is your responsibility to check whether or not you are allowed to bring a calculator into your examination and to check that the type of calculator you are using is permitted.
Spare calculators are not provided.
Textbooks
It is your responsibility to check whether or not you are allowed to bring a textbook into your examination. Unless informed otherwise, textbooks are not permitted. If your school allows textbooks to be used in examinations, check if any annotations are allowed.
Items you will not be permitted to keep with you in the examination room:
- Food or drink
- Coats
- Bags
- Pencil cases (even transparent ones)
- Blank paper
- Mobile phones/tablets/Bluetooth devices
- Personal music players
- Notes of any kind
If you bring these items with you, invigilators will specify a place where they must be left. In particular, phones must be switched off, with all pre-set alarms disabled. The phone will be confiscated if found on your person or on or near your desk, and its presence may be regarded as cheating.
The University cannot accept responsibility for loss of, or damage to, items brought into the examination room.
Cheating
Cheating in University examinations is an absolute offence. One of two penalties will be applied unless the circumstances are wholly exceptional.
- You must withdraw permanently from the University with no award. This is the usual penalty.
- You will be required to repeat the examination, some, or all of the examinations in the semester where the incident of cheating has occurred. If you successfully repeat the examination(s), the credits may be awarded but a mark of zero will contribute to your degree classification.
MUMS Definition of Cheating:
Candidates shall not, intentionally or otherwise:
Introduce unauthorized items into the examination room - e.g. notes (however so recorded), or other unauthorized material (including blank paper), mobile telephones or pagers, portable or laptop computers or other electronic devices (NB - this list is not exhaustive)
- Copy from other candidates or from notes
- Access or copy from sources of information (except as allowed by the examiners or the head of exams) or annotate or mark this authorized information (except as authorized by the examiners)
- disobey the regulations relating to calculators
- communicate in any way with other candidates or person(s) except the invigilators
- remove script books (blank or otherwise) from the examination room.
If you are suspected of cheating Educational Office for International Student will offer support and guidance.