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supporting staff. To cover all the persons in charge in examination, Regional
Offices hire staff, such as lecturers and teachers from partner's institutions. In

case of examination conducted abroad , the Educational Attache at respective
country is responsible for administering examination. Students sit the

examination at the Educational Attache Office or at the place agreed upon , for
example Indonesian school. During the examination, students must obey the

examination rule. Proctor has responsibility for administering examination ,
including reporting the finding during examination , such as lack of examination

paper, students who is absent and who breaks the rule. Proctors write those
reports on an examination record sheet. After exam, the exam papers must be

compiled and destroyed at the examination site and recorded on an examination
record sheet.

In order to assure that examination is conducted properly, UT has
developed manuals regarding the administering and reporting of examination,

and if necessary UT appoints staff to monitor examination directly to the
examination sites. Student who has indication of breaking examination rule will

receive sanction starting from warning, cancellation of the examination result,
punishment (grade E) of the examination result, until termination of the student's

status. The examination committee who breaks the rule will also receive
sanction , starting from warning , postponing from the examination committee or

termination as UT staff.
Since 1997, UT has been employing ICT for its instruction in order to

improve the quality. In accordance with the availability of web based materials
and online tutorials for students, by the year of 2003 UT started to develop

online examination . This mode of examination is intended to accommodate
students who are unable to attend paper and pencil examination . Online
examination also provides individual set test different from set test conducted

through pencil and paper test. In order to conduct the online examination , UT has

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