I am starting a casual job as an exams invigilator in my kids´school. I see that some of you here have experience in this job.
I went for the training a few days ago, but I am confused about the exam papers collection.
It says in the handbook that the order of the scripts has to be ascending. We were told that the collection order does not matter much, the important thing is that all the papers will be there in the end, and that we are careful with green cards, out of sequence, etc.
We are supposed to pick all the papers starting from the first table in the row at our left (lowest candidate number), going all the way down, and then go up whilst picking up exams from the next row.
My doubts are:
Are the lead invigilators or the exam officer the ones who will put the papers in the right order later, so I must not worry and just pick them up as they explained?
I believe that if we start from the lowest candidate number, unless we flip the first paper and then pile the others behind it, the papers will be in descending order, not ascending.
In the same way, when we go to the next row, starting collection from bottom, we are first picking the highest candidate number, so again, if we put the following papers below this one, then the order will be descending, not ascending.
As you can see, I am confused and I only see as solution to pick them up for each row so that the highest number stays in the bottom, but then for each row, since I go zig zag, I will have to do a different thing, or papers pile.
Is this correct and the way it should be done? Or am I just stressing over nothing?
Anybody with experience that can help, please?
Thank you!