IB Exam Procedures

1. Candidates must arrive 10-15 minutes before the official examination start time. All candidates must enter the room in a quiet and orderly manner. The sooner candidates get started, the sooner they can leave.

2. All candidates will have assigned seats. The seats will be arranged in alphabetical order by registration category: A-Z diploma seniors, A-Z diploma juniors, A-Z certificate students. Please find your seat and wait quietly for instructions.

3. Only authorized materials required for the examination are permitted (blue/black pen, pencils, water). Calculators, rulers, scrap paper and answer sheets will be provided. All personal belongings, including any device for communication, must be left outside of the Little Theater or placed at the back of the library. Any student found in possession of a cell phone will be excused from the exam, and his/her score will be canceled. This includes during breaks. DO NOT BRING CELL PHONES.

4. If unauthorized material is found in a candidate’s possession, they are likely to be held in breach of regulations, regardless of whether they intended to use the material during the examination.

5. Gel pens/highlighting pens can only be used to highlight questions or other information on an examination paper; they must not be used in conjunction with a candidate’s answer to any question. (This is because candidate’s scripts are now being scanned and the images made available to examiners electronically – gel pens/highlighting pens are not amenable to scanning.)

6. Candidates must write their answers in either blue or black ink (except for multiple choice examination papers, when pencil is used).

7. Bathroom breaks - only in emergency situations. Candidates should use the restroom before they enter the exam room.

8. Late arrivals - No late arrivals will be allowed to enter the exam room once the exam has started. Late arrivals or candidates who do not show for their exam will have their score canceled AND quality point removed from their transcript (per APS policy).

9. Candidates will not be allowed to leave the examination room during the first hour or during the last 15 minutes of an examination. Consequently, candidates will not be allowed to leave the examination room if the duration of the examination is one hour or less. This ruling is intended to prevent any disruption during the close of an examination, so that candidates are not moving around the room while scripts, examination papers and other material are being collected and accounted for.

10. Testing conflicts - A student with one or more AP and IB exams at the same time must sit for his/her regularly scheduled IB exam. A makeup will be offered for the AP exam. Please see Mr. DeMagistris and Mrs. McClellan if you have a testing conflict.