Before the RE-exam period in December, the usual administrative preparation work is underway with a BIG DIFFERENCE … for the first time we are trying to coordinate the management in a uniform way for the WHOLE of KTH, within the framework of TENTAPILOTEN!
It may seem trivial, but before all exam periods, there is a large administrative machinery that starts and operationally prepares all hall writings.
The main purpose is to test a digital booking system that means that we avoid double and overbooking of guards and can optimize the use of the halls by placing exams with fewer students in the same hall. At the same time, legal certainty and equal treatment for both examinees and invigilators is strengthened when we use standardized procedures, documentation and create the possibility of redundancy within the “machinery”.
December’s RE-exam period is the smallest exam period in terms of volume during the academic year. Approximately 200 different hall exams are to be conducted, which means that about 6,000 students are placed in a hall, 200 guards are booked, exam papers are printed and packed together with attendance lists, rules of order, formula collections, etc. and delivered to the writing rooms.
The work is normally done by a large number of employees at each school, but for December’s RE exam period, this is handled by a smaller number of employees from all schools for the entire KTH.
To our great joy, we get to use the “old Presidents’s house” at Valhallavägen 79. The premises are fantastic and the people who work there never want to go home.
If the pilot study is successful, a KTH-wide examination centre is at the top of the wish list, where we can provide the faculty with ongoing service and support to manage different forms of examination and thus practically enable continuous examination.
…and perhaps save on premises costs through more efficient use!
Helene Rune, Head of Administration at SCI.