Candidates should ensure that they attend the enrolled examination
at the scheduled examination time and venue.
Candidates should bring their own stationery (Blue/black ball pens,
calculators, dictionary etc.) to all examinations. Calculators and dictionaries
brought into the examination hall/room are subject to inspection. (Please
see below for the Policy on the Use of Dictionaries and Electronic
Calculators). Authorized dictionaries and non-programmable electronic
calculators may be used during the examinations. Calculators must be
battery-powered, soundless in operation and with neither print-out nor
graphic/word display functions.
Candidates are required to switch off all beeping watches, pagers
and mobile phones before entering the examination hall/room. Candidates
are NOT allowed to use any communication devices inside the examination
hall/room.
Candidates should use blue/black ball pens to fill in all particulars
on the question booklets/answer booklet(s) and to answer the examination
questions.
Candidates must sit at the designated seat according to the seat number
printed on their Exam ticket, unless otherwise approved by the invigilator.
Only the Exam ticket, stationery, authorized calculator and dictionary
are allowed on the desk. All personal belongings, textbooks, notes,
electronic diaries and any other study materials must be placed at designated
area during the examination.
The SFI will NOT be responsible for any loss, theft or damage of personal
belongings during the examination.
Drinking, eating and smoking are not allowed in the examination hall/room
during the examination.
No candidate will be admitted to the examination hall/room more than
30 minutes after the start of the examination.
Once the examination has been in progress for more than 30 minutes,
candidates may request to leave the examination hall/room with the approval
of the invigilator. However, candidates are not allowed to leave the
examination hall/room in the last 15 minutes.
At the end of the examination, candidates should remain silent and
seated until all examination materials including but not limited to
question booklets have been collected and the invigilators tell them
that they may leave.
Proof of Identity
On the examination day, each candidate MUST
bring:
his/her Exam Ticket; and
his/her photo I.D. The identity document must be identical to the
one indicated on the Admission Form.
Anyone failing to produce the above documents
will not be permitted to sit for the examination. Disqualification (A
candidate may be disqualified from the examination if he/she:)
improperly obtains information of an examination paper prior to the
examination;
communicates or attempts to communicate with any person inside or
outside the examination hall/room during the examination;
copies from notes, books or electronic devices brought into the examination
hall/room or from the work of other candidates during the examination;
takes away, or attempts to take away, from the examination hall/room
any examination materials, such as examination question booklets, answer
booklets, backing sheets or graph paper;
leaves the examination hall/room without permission;
starts to work on the examination paper before being instructed to
do so, or continues to write after being told to stop writing at the
end of the examination;
does anything which causes unnecessary distraction to other candidates
or disruption to the examination;
takes an examination on behalf or in the name of another person;
fails to follow the Examination Regulations, or the invigilators'
instruction during the examination; or
is found cheating in whatever manner.
Postponement and Cancellation of Examination
1. Examinations will be cancelled when typhoon warning signal is hoisted.
Candidates are advised to call the SFI's Examination Hotline ((02)
2396-9939) for any special announcements.
Candidates are also advised to listen to radio and/or television
broadcasts for any special announcements.
If an examination is cancelled, the SFI will notify candidates in
writing of the examination's rescheduled date and time. In these circumstances,
candidates do not have to re-register for the examination. Applications
for a refund and/or transfer of examination fees paid will not be entertained.
The SFI reserves the right to postpone and/or cancel an examination
under extraordinary circumstances.
Authorized material
On the day of the examination, each candidate will be provided with
an examination booklet (questions, answer sheets and calculation sheets),
and a finance formulae booklet. The candidates must bring their own
calculators and writing instruments
Policy on calculators
The following calculators are authorized:
Casio FC-200, Casio FC-1000
HP 12C, HP17B/plus, HP17BII/plus, HP19B/plus, HP19BII/plus
Any non-programmable calculator without any communication capability.
Calculators that are not in the above list and
calculators with spreadsheet capability are forbidden.
However:
Only executable formulas may be programmed into the calculator;
No text of any sort is authorised;
No file or any directory should be hidden or protected by a password.
Members of the supervisory staff must be able to access every file,
without any restriction, at all times throughout the examination.
Furthermore, during the exam, members of the supervisory staff will
inspect every calculator in order to verify that the above rules are
being fully respected. This procedure may take up to fifteen minutes
per candidate, and under no circumstances will any candidate be allowed
extra time as compensation. In cases of doubt, examination supervisors
are authorized to confiscate the calculator of any candidate, and
the latter has no right to demand a replacement one.
Dictionaries
Only non-thematic translation dictionaries from a foreign language
into the examination language and back, without any annotation, are
authorized. Financial and thematic dictionaries are not authorized.
Quantitative finance formulae booklet
Every candidate receives the authorized formulae booklet at least 2
months before the examination session. Additional formulae may be provided
on the examination day to solve specific questions, at the discretion
of the IEC.
Penalties
The violation of any restriction to authorized material as described
above justifies the exclusion of the candidate concerned from the entire
examination session.
Languages
The International examinations are available in eleven languages: English,
French, German, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese,
Japanese and Korean. Applications for approval of other languages may
be submitted to the IEC.
Publication of results
Candidates will receive the results of the international examinations
from the IEC through their national society. As soon as a large and
geographically well-diversified number of candidates have been awarded
the international designation, the names of the recipients will be published
by the ACIIA®in a publicly available register.
