School Exam Officers - are they allowed to read GCSE exam papers before sending them off?

[TessaTeacake]

Just that really.

DD has come home from school today, saying the School Exam Officer asked to see her today, and told her that she'd read her paper and that she might be disqualified from one of her exams. DD is incredibly stressed anyway, but is it normal for the Exam Officer to read exam papers before sending them off?

Thanks

I've marked for exam boards as well and agree with others that your daughter has nothing to worry about at all.
However, we did have a paper sent back to us once as the student had written 'fuck off' across every single page on his exam paper,.

The student was a complete arse and if I remember correctly the school billed him for his exam entry.

I would ignore a smiley face or funny remark but on one of the online systems I mark on there is a specific category of bad language to report a script on so I assume it is taken seriously. I've not had to do it but I would if I had a paper with swearing on it to follow procedure but I've no idea what would happen.

In practice unless it's on the first question you mark you could have finished the paper before you even see it.