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This is how\nyou schedule the junior classes and the senior ones separately within the same series.",[406,500,501,504],{},[412,502,503],{},"Bell schedule."," By default each class sits its papers against its own schedule, the same one its\nlessons run to. You can name one schedule for the whole series instead, which is what most schools\nwant: exams run to their own shape rather than to the teaching day.",[406,506,507,508,511],{},"A paper takes ",[412,509,510],{},"one period",". If your papers run two hours, build a bell schedule whose periods are\ntwo hours long and choose it here. That is deliberately the same mechanism as everything else about\nyour school day, rather than a second place to describe how long something lasts.",[406,513,514,517],{},[412,515,516],{},"Keep the papers already scheduled."," Ticked by default. Anything you placed by hand stays exactly\nwhere it is and the rest is scheduled around it, which is what you want after moving a few papers\nyourself. Untick it to rebuild the series from scratch.",[417,519,521],{"id":520},"what-it-tries-to-get-right","What it tries to get right",[406,523,524],{},"Placing every paper somewhere is the easy half. The generator also weighs, in this order:",[526,527,528,534,540,546,552],"ol",{},[434,529,530,533],{},[412,531,532],{},"Not stacking a class's papers."," Three papers in one day is the complaint every school makes\nabout a badly built timetable, so this outweighs everything below it.",[434,535,536,539],{},[412,537,538],{},"Keeping the load even across the exam days",", rather than four papers on Monday and one on\nThursday.",[434,541,542,545],{},[412,543,544],{},"Putting papers in the morning"," where the days allow it.",[434,547,548,551],{},[412,549,550],{},"Not walking an invigilator between rooms"," any more than it has to.",[434,553,554,557],{},[412,555,556],{},"Finishing early rather than late"," within the window, which counts for very little, because\nfinishing early is not a fault.",[406,559,560],{},"A class never sits two papers at once, an invigilator never watches two rooms at once, and nobody is\nput down to invigilate during a lesson they are timetabled to teach or on a day you have recorded\nthem unavailable. Those are rules, not preferences, and the generator does not trade them away.",[417,562,564],{"id":563},"rooms","Rooms",[406,566,567],{},"If you have recorded rooms, each paper is given the smallest one that seats the class and is free at\nthat time.",[406,569,570,573],{},[412,571,572],{},"Rooms advise here rather than decide."," A hall holds a whole year group, so a school sitting three\nclasses in one room is doing the ordinary thing, and a generator that treated a room as exclusive\nwould hand back a list of unplaced papers that any bursar would have placed without a second\nthought. A paper the generator can find nowhere of its own for is still scheduled, just without a\nroom against it.",[406,575,576],{},"A room you named yourself on a paper is different. That is an instruction, and it is kept.",[417,578,580],{"id":579},"when-it-cannot-place-everything","When it cannot place everything",[406,582,583,584,587],{},"You get the papers it did place, plus a list of the ones it could not and ",[412,585,586],{},"what actually ran out","\nfor each: the class was already sitting something in every remaining slot, every invigilator was\nbusy, the class was at its daily limit on every day left.",[406,589,590],{},"Partial results are always reported rather than hidden. A series that quietly drops one class's\nChemistry paper is worse than one that refuses, because the gap is found on the morning of the exam.",[406,592,593,594,597],{},"Fix what the list names and run again with ",[412,595,596],{},"Keep the papers already scheduled"," ticked. The papers\nthat landed stay put and only the gaps are filled.",[417,599,601],{"id":600},"after-the-run","After the run",[603,604,609],"screenshot",{"alt":605,"height":606,"src":607,"width":608},"The generated exam timetable grouped by date. A card headed Monday, 7 December 2026 is badged 14 papers and lists each paper with its time, class, subject, venue and invigilator: Economics at 08:00 for JSS 1A in Science Laboratory 1 with Ifeoma Eze, then the same paper for every other class, followed by Mathematics at 08:45.",1206,"\u002Fdocs\u002Fexam-timetable-generation\u002Fgenerated-timetable.png",1832,[406,610,611],{},"One day of the series: every class sits its paper in a period, in a room, with somebody watching.",[406,613,614],{},"The papers land on the exam page behind the drawer, laid out day by day exactly as a timetable you\ntyped in would be, each with its time, class, subject, venue and invigilator.",[406,616,617,618,621],{},"A generated series is exactly the same as one you typed in. It is not published, it is not seen by\nanybody outside the staff portal, and the class builder on the exam page is still there to move a\npaper you disagree with. Nothing reaches students or parents until you ",[412,619,620],{},"Publish",".",[406,623,624],{},"Generating is admin work, gated on the same permission as building an exam timetable by hand. It\nalso respects the freeze: once an exam's end date has passed, its papers are a record of what\nhappened, and neither hand-editing nor generating will change them.",{"title":626,"searchDepth":627,"depth":627,"links":628},"",3,[629,631,632,633,634,635],{"id":419,"depth":630,"text":420},2,{"id":491,"depth":630,"text":492},{"id":520,"depth":630,"text":521},{"id":563,"depth":630,"text":564},{"id":579,"depth":630,"text":580},{"id":600,"depth":630,"text":601},false,"md",{},true,null,{"src":642,"alt":643,"width":644,"height":645,"caption":646},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fexam-timetable-generation\u002Fgenerate.png","Step three of the generation wizard, What is in the way, with the four steps shown as pills reading Who is sitting, Which days, What is in the way and How to weigh it. Under a line saying what the engine needs in place, checked against this exam and the classes named above, a Re-check button sits on the right. The verdict reads Ready, with 1 thing worth knowing, above an amber note that JSS 1B has no pupils on its roll so no room can be checked against its size, and Back and Next buttons below.",1754,542,"The readiness check runs as you reach step three, before anything is queued, so a series that cannot be built says why while there is still time to fix it.",{"title":123,"description":126},"docs\u002Fexam-timetable-generation","z11mqe0gYJ55YG-BVrhehW_2w1Q80PCr8TiYRyV-9N4",1787681160641]