Question about DAT writing sheets

[enajmu]

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Can you lift up the laminated sheets close to the computer screen but not touching the screen? And do people watch you right next to you cuz I get a bit uncomfortable when people watch me 😛

 

[sagarkanodiya]

Why do you need to any way?
Other people around you are also taking test, they don;t have time to look around as well.
But There is certainly a partition between each test station.
Nobody is watching you except surveillance people. They do it through camera not personally.
you can raise hand if you want to exchange laminated sheet.
Don't try to use laminated sheet to check angles.

 

[Bobby Fischer]

Can you lift up the laminated sheets close to the computer screen but not touching the screen? And do people watch you right next to you cuz I get a bit uncomfortable when people watch me 😛

I do not know the specific answer to your question. However when I have taken tests in Prometric centers, e.g. GRE, you are definitely a fish in a fishbowl. Glass windows, video cameras on the ceiling, proctors basically pacing back and forth, entering and exiting the room for this thing or that every few minutes.

I always have requested the complimentary earplugs (more like 180$ apiece) . I hate the testing environment. All the supposed security is sooo distracting.

I mean if a person is reallly going to cheat, given today's microtechnology...there are more than enough ways around all what really amount to what are only obnoxious hassles to the honest test taker.

I am going to assume I am not going to want to hold anything anywhere near the screen during my DAT. The staff who monitor these places, in my locale anyways, are not exactly the sharpest tools in the shed. Probably have average to below average IQ and have been conditioned pavlonian style by over training at the corporate monkey level to overreact to every silly 'threat' their overstimluated senses might detect. In my locale the staff has always been composed of a bunch of over the hill retirees. Nice, usually, but not rocket scientists that is for sure. They probably think Prometric is an appendage of 'homeland security' or something.

 

[sagarkanodiya]

Mr. Bobby Fischer has some serious sense of humor. Especially his last sentence "They probably think Prometric is an appendage of 'homeland security' or something"

 

[enajmu]

So I shouldn't bc it'll look like I'm touching the screen and the proctors will go crazy? Yeah I wanted to do it for the angles