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Misconduct

Misconduct includes:

  • Attempting to take UMAT in any year prior to the final year of secondary schooling;
  • breach of any of the security arrangements for UMAT;
  • impersonation;
  • attempting to remove a test book or answer sheet or part thereof, or any notes, from the testing room;
  • failure to follow test supervisor’s instructions at all times;
  • giving or receiving assistance during the test;
  • creating a disturbance;
  • using unauthorised aids (including but not limited to: notes, note paper, dictionary, calculator, mobile phone, tape recorder, mp3 player, electronic personal organiser, stationery items other than pencil and eraser, etc.);
  • writing, or marking your test paper or answer sheet, during reading time or after the instruction is given to stop writing;
  • copying another candidate’s work;
  • using the test questions, their content or information about them for purposes other than your sitting of UMAT is prohibited. This includes: publishing the UMAT questions or any of their content or information about them on the internet, any digital format or otherwise; and/or passing the UMAT questions, any of their content or information about them to third parties;
  • the giving of false or misleading information;
  • infringement of copyright. Copyright infringement includes: performing those acts which only the copyright holders may or authorising or allowing a person on the candidate’s behalf to infringe ACER or the UMAT consortium’s copyright material;

PENALTIES for misconduct include: withholding of your UMAT results or disqualification from sitting UMAT for a period or at all:

YOU ARE PUT ON NOTICE there is NO APPEAL from any penalty applied.