• Students are only expected to be at the school at their scheduled exam time.  If you do not write an exam that day, you can stay home and study.
• Last day of classes for Semester 1 is Friday, January 21, 2022.  Exam week begins Monday, January 24th – Friday January 28, 2022.  
• Semester 2 begins Tuesday, February 1st, 2022.
• Arrive 15 minutes before your exam starts.
• Exams will be written in classrooms.
• Students must bring their ID for their student number on their exams.
• Bring a pencil and an eraser.
• For courses that require it, bring a calculator. Make sure you change the batteries in your calculator before the exam and/or bring extra batteries.
• Bring a water bottle and a QUIET snack.  (IE: banana, orange, unwrapped granola bar)  Do not bring something that is loud to open or that is crunchy. 
• Leave your cell phone, airpods/earphones, smart watches IN YOUR BACK PACK, which will be left at the front of the room OR in your locker.  If you bring your cell phone into the exam room and it is not handed in to the teacher prior to the exam, you risk getting a zero on your test.
• Hand in your textbooks to the Learning Commons after you have finished your exam.  Students will not be able to pick up the semester 2 textbooks until semester 1 textbooks are processed.  If you are done with your textbook early, you may drop it off at the learning commons prior to your exams.

Please make note of the following “Exam Rules/Procedures for Suspected Cheating.”  You can find this information in our Student Handbook on the JMHS Website as well:

Student Handbook

Basic Exam Writing Rules

• Calculators are allowed only if so stated on the test or exam.
• Cell phones, smart watches and air pods are prohibited during a test or exam. Use of these devices during an exam could result in getting a zero on the exam.
• Students are expected to refrain from talking, whispering or gesturing during the testing period, even if they are finished writing.
• Students who benefit from the work of others, who assist others with exam information, or who bring in information for the purpose of assistance on an exam will receive a mark of 0%.

~ Students may be removed from the exam room if they do not comply with the basic rules of exam writing and they may be assigned a mark of 0% or marked on what has been completed, at the teacher’s discretion.

 Procedure for suspected cheating in exam situations:

1. Supervisor who notices suspicious behaviour alerts other supervisor(s) of suspicions. Supervisor(s) monitor to confirm or dismiss. 
2. If cheating is observed, or even thought to be occurring, the final exam is removed from the student(s) involved. 
3. Student is immediately removed to the office. Wording such as “This is not allowed, you need to come with me” should be used. 
4. If it is just one student, that student should go into the Principal’s office. If it is more than one student, they should be put into separate areas (principal and vice principal office for example) and not allowed to speak to one another.
5. Administration will have both the student(s) and the supervisor(s) fill out an incident statement, stating why the student was removed from the exam. They will sign and date the statement.
6. The Principal/admin will take the statements and talk to the supervisor(s) about the incident. The Principal/admin will then talk to the student(s).
7. The student(s) will then finish writing the exam in isolation, in the office.
8. If cheating is confirmed, the student will be given a zero on the final exam. 
9. The Principal/admin will then immediately phone the student’s parents. 
10. An email will be sent home by the principal/admin informing the student and parents about the decision and consequences. JMHS student handbook will be cited in the email. Example below.  

Upon close review of the circumstances, the students caught cheating on the final exam will receive a mark of zero, as per page 17 of the JMHS student handbook: “students who benefit from the work of others, who assist others with exam information, or who bring in information for the purpose of assistance on an exam, will receive a mark of 0%.”