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.
