Challenge Exams

The Coast-Metro Challenge Consortium is a steering committee, representing eleven school districts, which oversees the Language Challenge process for the students in the member districts.

The following school districts are members of the Coast-Metro Challenge Consortium:

• Abbotsford – School District 34
• Burnaby — School District 41
• Coquitlam — School District 43
• Delta — School District 37
• Howe Sound — School District 48
• Langley — School District 35
• New Westminster — School District 40
• North Vancouver — School District 44
• Richmond — School District 38
• Surrey — School District 36
• Vancouver — School District 39
• West Vancouver — School District 45

Please Note: Students who attend schools that are not a part of the Consortium, are also welcome to take part in the Language Challenge Exams. Please approach the counselling department of your school for further information.

MATERIALS PERMITTED ARE SPECIFIED IN THIS DOCUMENT

No other materials are allowed

GENERAL INFORMATION

1. No papers will be allowed for rough work.
2. Items such as cellular phones, pagers, and wrist watch alarms are not permitted.
3. You will be asked to store all bags and unauthorized materials at the front of the room during the examination. Please do not bring unnecessary materials to the examination. Delta School District will not be responsible for items lost or stolen.
4. You should arrive at least 20 minutes before the start of the examination. If you are late, your work might not be accepted.
5. For examinations longer than one hour, you are not allowed to leave the examination room, for any reason, until one hour after the published starting time. If you are allowed to leave before the end of the examination, you will not be allowed to return.
6. You may not borrow anything from another student/candidate during the examination.
7. Washroom breaks will not be permitted once the examination has been started.
8. You may wish to dress in layers to ensure your comfort during the examination.

MATERIALS NOT PERMITTED

Computers, data banks, correction fluid, or “liquid paper”, rough paper or scratch pad. Dictionaries are not permitted for language examinations.

MATERIALS PERMITTED

All students are permitted to bring the following:

• pens (black or blue ink is recommended)
• pencils (extra lead if using mechanical pencil)
• erasers
• rulers
• sharpeners

Conduct in Examinations
Students – Please read carefully before attending an examination.

• You must present your photo identification to the examination supervisor at the examination sign-in procedure. If you fail to do so, you may not be allowed to write the examination.
• If you arrive late within the first half hour of the examination, you will be permitted to write the examination but you will not be allowed any extra time. If you arrive after the first half hour, you will be permitted to write the examination provided that no other candidate has left the examination room, but you will be required to give your reason for the lateness and extra time is not allowed. The Delta School District reserves the right to refuse to accept the examination submitted by such a candidate.
• You must sign the examination attendance register when you receive the examination and sign the register again when you turn in the examination and leave the room
• You may only have access to authorized materials as stated on the attached requirements sheet during the examination. All other materials are not authorized and must be placed against the wall at the front of the examination room or as directed by the examination supervisor.
• You may not open the examination envelope until you are instructed to do so. You may complete the outside of the envelope before the timer begins.
• Tell the Invigilator at once if you think you have not been given the right question paper or all the materials listed on the front of the paper, or, if the question paper is incomplete or badly printed.
• You are not permitted to leave the examination room for any reason during the first hour of the examination period. If you leave before the end of the examination, you will not be allowed to return.
• NOTE: There will be no washroom breaks permitted.
• No new candidates may enter the examination as latecomers if anyone has left the examination room.
• All examination papers and all answer booklets, used or unused, or any other supplied materials, MUST be returned in the examination envelope and handed in to the examination supervisor when leaving the examination. Failure to do so could result in a penalty.
• You are not permitted to talk, eat, drink, smoke, use pagers or cellular phones, or make unnecessary noise in the examination room.

MISCONDUCT

Any form of cheating or misconduct will not be tolerated by the Delta School District. Misconduct includes any form of cheating or breach of conduct rules, as above. Cheating consists of, but is not limited to, obtaining information or academic advantages by fraud or deceit. For example, no student shall exchange information with another student in the course of an examination, use unauthorized materials in the course of an examination, represent/impersonate another in the taking of an examination, or other similar activities. Penalties for misconduct will include, but are not limited to, assignment of a grade of ‘0’ and additional penalties as determined to be appropriate.

The Delta School District in collaboration with the Coast-Metro Challenge Consortium is offering the following courses for Language Challenge exams:

• French 11/12
• Japanese 11/12
• Korean 11/12
• Mandarin 11/12
• Punjabi 11/12
• Spanish 11/12

• Sample Exam Farsi 11 Reading
• Sample Exam Farsi 12 Reading
• Sample Exam – French 11 Reading
• Sample Exam – French 12 Reading
• Sample Exam – Japanese 11 Reading
• Sample Exam – Japanese 12 Reading
• Sample Exam – Korean 11 Reading
• Sample Exam – Korean 12 Reading
• Sample Exam – Mandarin 11 Reading Simplified
• Sample Exam – Mandarin 11 Reading Traditional
• Sample Exam – Mandarin 12 Reading Simplified
• Sample Exam – Mandarin 12 Reading Traditional
• Sample Exam – Punjabi 11 Reading
• Sample Exam – Punjabi 12 Reading
• Sample Exam – Spanish 11 Reading
• Sample Exam – Spanish 12 Reading