Invigilation...
Those people who wander about watching you when you sit exams, yep, I got paid to do that.

With the big exams you get to wander about a big hall, watching everyone working and occasionally handing out extra paper, and as it gets closer to the end of an exam collecting in the papers of any escapee's intent on leaving before they are kicked out at time.

What most people won't realise happen are the 'one to one' exams - hidden away from the the big hall full of kids sitting english are the exams being run for pupils needing extra support - people with issues like dyslexia or autism that may need help in the form of a reader/scribe to help them with the writing, a prompter to make sure they don't daydream the entire time or extra time for whatever reason. Also there are the people kept apart for various behavioural problems that would cause an issue in a hall full of people genuinely trying to work, and best of all the teenage girls that cannot be trusted not to pop out a baby halfway through GCSE maths
Basically you end up in a room, often with only one pupil and a helper sitting the exam, with the job of watching them to prevent cheating and to stop them at the right time.
While it may be against the official rules, sneaking in a magazine to stop you falling asleep is not exactly frowned upon or prevented. I think I worked my way through about a years back issues of National Geographic last exam set...
The best room to have a one to one exam was in one of the learning support bases where they had an array of books including a nice selection of Roald Dahl for me to read.
(442, Thu 9 Sep 2010, 16:29, 2 replies)

Cough
It's Invigilation ;)
(Speshal, Thu 9 Sep 2010, 17:01, closed)

Of course...
It has always been spelt properly, no editing at all...

[runs]
(442, Thu 9 Sep 2010, 17:12, closed)