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The Testing Center is leaving the David O. McKay Library for the John L. Clarke Building.
Testing Center changes at a glance • Students will not be able to leave backpacks in the entrance rooms. • Everything must fit under the desks. The racks are being removed from the desks, so this will be easier. • Four smaller rooms will be available by appointment for special testing needs. • Testing area will be monitored by security cameras as well as student supervisors. • A smaller testing area will play soft music while students take their tests. • Students won’t be entering and exiting from the same location.

Testing Center relocating, making changes

Dominique Perkins PER04002@BYUI.EDU scroll staff

A new testing center will be opening in the John L. Clarke Building to better meet testing needs.

The date of the opening has not been announced, but Testing Center Director John Dexter said the move might take place during the Christmas break, when it will be easier to move without affecting students.

“It will be pretty much the same,” said Megan Plaisted, a senior from Salt Lake City, who works in the testing center. “I’m excited.”

The new testing center will also have more room.

The biggest difference will be the change in traffic flow.

“There is a different exit and entrance,” Plaisted said. “You can’t leave your things, because you’ll be walking out a different door so you can’t come back and get them.”

Students will enter the testing center through a small door on the northeast end of the Clarke Building.

A large staircase leads into the new center, where students will check out their tests.

No one will be allowed to sit, study or leave backpacks in the stairway or the entrance rooms, Dexter said.

Anything students bring with them must be placed under the desks. Racks are being removed from the desks so backpacks will better fit, Dexter said.

However, he recommends that students bring only the materials needed to take their tests.

The testing area will be monitored for dishonest activity using security cameras as well as the usual student supervisors.

In addition to the main testing area, four smaller rooms will be available by appointment for testing needs.

All the rooms are set up for computers. The center will start with 20 computers, Dexter said. Over time more will be added to fit students’ needs.

A smaller room off the main testing area will play soft music while students take their tests.

BYU-Provo has this, Dexter said, and he liked the idea. “I’d rather have the music playing,” he said. “Then the students walking up and down [the isles] won’t be so distracting.”

After taking their tests, students will turn all test taking materials into the testing center, and exit down the inner stairway to the ground floor where the TV screen will display their scores.