Recounting my ordeals at the University of Lagos with the types of Invigilators I encountered in the Exam Halls...
1. The ones who will praise the first student to submit his booklet making every other students look like they know nothing. “Woooooow !!!Do you mean you have finished?”
They will face other students and say “can you see your life?, he finished within an hour, that is a well prepared student”.
2. The ones who will keep telling you the history of their lives, how they performed excellently amongst their peers when they were in University.
* if I hear*
3. The ones forming James Bond in the hall.
They will start giving testimonies of how many students they have caught cheating and have been rusticated **wetin concern us with that one ?**
4. The ones who will collect your question paper, go through the questions and shake their heads pitifully without saying anything.
5. The ones who will glance at your answer booklet and they will ask why your booklet is blank. “Didn’t you read for this exam ?”
**Abeg swerve go left jor**
6. The ones who will never accept your apology if you are caught cheating. The moment you are caught cheating, just start thinking of what else to do with your leave of absence
7. The ones who are very sensitive: Try communicate with any student and they will change your seat, you keep wondering how smart they really are to have noticed you.
8. The ones who are very gentle and friendly. At the start of the exam, they will plead with you not to disturb but gives you access to teach yourselves and even watches other invigilators for you.
These ones are students favourite*Me like too*
9. The ones who will force you to submit even if you still have an hour left. They will tell you “what are you still writing when all your mates have submitted?”
Which of them annoy you the most?
By Dapo Babalola
