EXAM RULES & POLICIES

• Candidates must leave all personal belongings in the designated belongings area. The only items you may bring into the examination room are your approved identity document/passport, pencil(s), eraser(s), pen (black ink), compass, protractor, non– programmable calculator and a bottle of water (label–free).
• All electronic devices, including phones and smart watches, must be left in the belongings area and must be switched off. Exam centres may use metal detectors to scan for electronic devices. Any candidate who breaches these conditions will not receive an examination result or be eligible for a refund or transfer. While the centre will take all reasonable measures to secure your items in the belongings area, they cannot be held responsible for any loss or damage.

The Minerals Council will not take the responsibility of safekeeping of such devices and will not be responsible if they are lost, stolen or damaged.

1. Tell the invigilator at once if you think you have not been given the correct question paper or if the question paper is incomplete or illegible.
2. Raise your hand if you need to ask the invigilator something. Candidates may not ask for, and will not be given, any explanation of the exam questions.
3. If you have a complaint relating to the delivery of the exam at the examination venue, you must submit your complaint, in writing, to the examination venue and the Minerals Council before you leave the centre on day of the exam. Complaints relating to the delivery of the examination will not be accepted after the examination day.
4. The answer scripts and relevant ventilation formula sheets must be handed to the invigilator at the end of the examination before you quietly leave the examination room. You may remove the examination question papers and any other rough papers that are not part of your answer sheet from the examination room.

1. Talk to or disturb other candidates once the examination has started.
2. Lend anything to, or borrow anything from, another candidate during the examination.
3. Eat or smoke in the examination room.
4. Leave the examination room without the permission of the invigilator.
5. Leave your seat until all examination materials have been collected and you have been told you can leave by the invigilator.
6. Engage in any form of malpractice which may damage the integrity and security of the Minerals Council Examination. Malpractice includes, but is not limited to:
   1. attempting to cheat in any way, including using notes of any kind from any source that is not prescribed.
   2. helping another candidate to cheat.
   3. impersonating another candidate or having another candidate impersonate you.
   4. copying the work of another candidate.
   5. disrupting the exam in any way.
   6. reproducing any part of the examination in any medium.
   7. attempting to alter the data on submitted examination documents.

Candidates engaging in malpractice will not be allowed to complete the examination and will be subject to disciplinary action. Any such candidate will be immediately removed from the exam venue and the Minerals Council informed accordingly.

The candidate engaging in malpractice can be suspended from writing future examinations for a period of two years. Further to this the individual’s organisation of employment and/or mentors/coach/line manager will be informed of the transgressions.

Any candidate who engages in malpractice, will not receive an examination result or be eligible for a refund or transfer of the exam monies and may be subject to disciplinary action. Candidates engaging in malpractice may be reported to regulatory authorities and mayhave legal action taken against them.

All candidates are urged to take note of the arrangements and rules as mentionedabove and are advised to adhere to these.