Any stories from this year? The guy next to me had about 20 pencils, a yellow highlighter and white out. I read about someone doing this a few years back and couldn’t believe it, but now I saw it with my own eyes. I thoguth about saying something to him, then decided, f* it, it’s not my job to tell him the rules. I was so paranoid about even breathing in his direction since the proctors were all walking around my table that I don’t know if he used them or not, but, I noticed after the morning essay that they had been moved. WTF dude! highlighter and white out, are you serious? He had some other stuff too that was unidentifiable - one thing looked like a mini flashlight.
one guy in my section had no calculator – i couldn’t work out if he was a rainman genius or just a total idiot…
The guy next to me had brought in two pens and one pencil. He had his pen open when we sat down around 8:30 and I was chatting with him and was like, “thats a pen, isn’t it, is it? or no?” and I picked it up and sure enough! I was like, “Are you mad, you cannot use a pen… just a pencil.” He said, “Is it? Oh ok… lucky then that I have a pencil with me!” … but I still think he might have passed!
It was funny how everyone just got up and left while the proctor was reading out the last rules “you are not allowed to give out any exam content blah blah blah” poor guy…
In the hall outside the room, the lady with the megaphone accidentally turned on the siren… I was like, not a fire alarm…
One of the test centres in India had a special cardiac arrest van stationed just in case something happens. 
Chennai center Exam started on a funny note. As soon as the proctor started to speak on the mike, the mike won’t work. When someone takes it from her to test, it starts working. Drama went on for 10 min. Some smart-ass took opportunity and commented that lady’s voice is too good for the mike. She blushed. Test started at 9:04 am.
I don’t know how it works, but there were almost only hot girls and by hot I mean playboy hot.
waldziuchna Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I don’t know how it works, but there were almost > only hot girls and by hot I mean playboy hot. #%&^%#@fku!!
It was the opposite in my center. Quite some hot guys though none in my section. Not so many hot women. But maybe I was more looking at the guys and didn’t pay attention to the girls. Oh and how awesome that for the first time in my life, the women’s line for the bathroom was shorter than the men’s 
Toronto was extremely loud in the morning cause of lightning.
starvinmarvin Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > There was a proctor inside the bathroom keeping > guard. > I was like, “are you serious!” This is standard everywhere; I’ve taken the test in different cities (just took L3). I am sure there are people who think they can pull out a crib sheet while sitting on the throne. I make it a point to have the smallest possible breakfast and lunch, combined with just enough liquid, so I don’t need to use the facilities during the actual testing period.
“If you want to cheat do it in India”. Dude, where in India did you take your exam? I really want to know, cause I was in Bombay, at a massive exhibition center, and the exam was run with military precision (there were exactly 120 proctors for 800 candidates, overkill really. AND they wore day-glo vests). We were accompanied to the loo (not inside, but everyone inside the bathroom was deathly silent, you would have heard a paper rustle haha), and had to hand over our id and exam books even for water breaks (water cooler was literally 20 yards away). I’m sure when you took it XX years ago someone didn’t think to confiscate cellphones, could happen. However, I call bull****. Schweser notes were out in plain sight during the exam? REALLY?
I took it in Bombay, and a solitary crow crept in (my centre had ridiculously high ceilings, it was practically a warehouse). Bugger perched on a beam right above me, and I kept glancing up to make sure he wouldn’t poo directly onto my exam…
doug1022 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The lead administrator of the afternoon session in > Boston was a major Biatch. She was on a major > power trip (can’t understand why) and announced > the instructions to the auditorium in this > ridiculously nasty, aggressive tone, like she was > the prosecutor and we were all charged with > heinous war crimes. This fat, ugly wench made me > feel shame. Dude seriously, and how effin’ slow did she read the morning instructions? There’s not a comma after every word, lady. In the AM session she ripped the proctors a new one for handing out the exam booklets before she made her announcement and did so in a very derogatory, bitchy way just as you described above. I pity the man that crosses paths with that skank.
Nothing crazy happened for me. It took it at a relatively small test center, probably only about 300-400 people. We were all in one convention center ballroom. But it was almost all men in my test center. Probably 85% white men, 5% all other guys, 8% asian girls, and 2% white girls. Is that the demographic split of charterholders?!
I keep on reading that everyone’s exam always has this one red hot girl in it. Mine had one too! And only one!
- I got to the address mentioned on the ticket at 7.50 and realized, that there was nothing there, but multistory residential buildings. It turned out, that Google maps gives a wrong location for the address. Luckily, the actual center wasn’t on the other side of the city, but within a 10 minute drive. - Apparently, CFAI cannot afford a center with a/c and toiled paper - For some reason, proctors didn’t mind people standing just outside the testing room, so my dad decided to wait for me there. Somewhere in the middle of the exam I feel that I can use some stretching out, so I go to the bathroom. As I leave the room, my dad notices me and starts approaching me, asking, if I’m done with the exam. Thank god, there were no proctors around, because it looked exactly as if he was trying to give me assistance. - During the recess proctors were laughing at how they constantly mispronounce the word “sheet”
krazykanuck Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Nothing crazy happened for me. It took it at a > relatively small test center, probably only about > 300-400 people. We were all in one convention > center ballroom. > > But it was almost all men in my test center. > Probably 85% white men, 5% all other guys, 8% > asian girls, and 2% white girls. Is that the > demographic split of charterholders?! Where did u take it? I was in Ottawa and the demographics weren’t like that at all, mind you I did see some Asian candidates with foreign passports, most likely studying at one of the schools. And I call bullshit on ppl saying lots of hot girls! Forgot to mention the proctors found some person’s cell phones in one of the testing rooms, not sure if that person immediately ran out to the nearest rogers/bell/telus world at lunch, lol
There was a comic book convention next door at the Charlotte center. One group of several hundred nervous and cramming people, and another group with females running around in cat and superwoman outfits. The guy next to me didn’t bring a pencil, he said thinking they’d give him one. Left about an hour early so he had a three hour break, and then came back again without a pencil. Luckily for him, I am a nice guy. Hopefully karma is a nice guy too.