General

Any room in which the written, practical, or oral examination is conducted must provide candidates with appropriate conditions. Due attention must be paid to such matters as heating, lighting, ventilation and the level of extraneous noise.

There must be no display materials (such as diagrams or wall charts) visible in any of the examination rooms if these could be helpful to the candidates.

A clock must be visible to each candidate in all rooms that are used for the written, the practical, or the oral examinations.

A notice stating “Examination in Progress” will be affixed to the door of all examination rooms, whether written, practical, or oral. See Appendix 7.

During the course of the examination, a copy of these Examinations Regulations must be available for inspection.

Written Examination

The seating arrangements for the written examination should be such as to prevent any form of collusion between candidates. The layout should prevent candidates from overlooking, intentionally or otherwise, the work of others.

During the written examination, all candidates should face in the same direction. Each should have a separate desk or table on which is displayed his/her candidate’s identification number. The desk must be of sufficient size to accommodate question papers, answer books, and other approved documentation.

Candidates are normally seated in Candidate Number order.

The Senior Invigilator will prepare a seating plan for the written paper, to record the identification numbers and seating arrangements of all candidates.

Practical Examination

The practical examination requires an area for the trotting up and assessment of horses both before and after a practical diploma examination, a forge area that should have serviceable forges of either coke or gas fuels, and a shoeing area that must have sufficient space for candidates to shoe simultaneously without disrupting each other’s work. Further details are given in Section 19.

Oral Examination

There are three examiners involved in the oral assessment. The two farrier examiners each require a room with tables, and the veterinary examiner requires accommodation for a live horse and facilities for a light-box or laptop on which to display radiographs. Further details are given in Section 21.