Hi All I am just sitting here revising for the exam this thursday doing a few past papers. I am a little concerned at how quick i am getting through them averaging 45mins to an hour!!!! anybody else finding the same??
a few people in my exam left before the hour mark, all failed i finished mine in bout 2 hours. the questions at the back take a fair bit of time past papers can become repetitive and you can reel out the same old answers but you can guarantee city and guilds will word a couple differently just to confuse you remember the last questions carry a lot of marks so you are expected to describe the answer in great detail
Notts, how long to answer section A, and how much detail in section B as i am finding that some questions do not appear to require great explanations?
Hi doing mine on Thursday too. I can whizz through the first 20 no problem with about a 90% success rate. Second 6 taking at least an hour and a quarter. Fingers crossed though. Good luck to all of you.
cant remeber the ins and outs as i did it a few years ago but dusnt it tell u how many marks each questions require? for example, remember getting a question asking to describe how to test an earth electrode and it carried 10 marks so you should be looking to make 10 points in your question, eg what insrument you should use (1 point), distances where u stake (1 point) and so on. try to avoid having to rely on the answers in past papers, a few will come up, especially at the beginin but its the last questions that get u ur pass
Notts, Are you suggesting that i should leave the past papers now in favour for some more re reading of GN3?
And also remember chaps that the pressure when your taking the exam is alot different to when your sitting at home with a nice cup of tea etc When i did mine in 2002 the paper was completely different to any that i had revised from. Good luck to you all
GN3 is the testing bible but past papers teach you how city and guilds want u to answer the question. just make sure you have the ability to interpret what each question is asking for and not recite the same answers that kept comin up in past papers remember in mine they worded the questions totally different to anything id done on a past paper in section b. if you do well in section a, which as im sure ull know is relativley easy, and answer only one of the back questions fully you will pass. i dont think the pass mark is that high to be fair but a lot of people still fail. a mixture of gn3 and past papers and im sure ull be fine
make sure you get ur banker marks. instrument, scale, safe isolation, expected reading. theres 4 marks iv got and im not even sitting the exam
i managed to fly through it but in fairness, the teacher made sure we wernt gonna fail. he did brief us well before on what we were likely to be up against and what they look for
Practicle assesment was a lot easier than the written exam. I thought so anyway if you are competent at testing you should breeze through it, as long as you know what the results you are obtaining mean then no probs. The written part is a lot different because you have to have everything that you have learnt at the front of your brain and then be able to convert your answers to paper without the aid of any books.
now there's a thought why is this the only exam whereby you can use your books???? like you are not going to have them on site!!!!
to test you have to be able to get the theoretical part in your head right to understand it, hence the absence off books i test every day and sometimes some of the things you come across, results you get boggle the mind, u then have to realise why you have got that reading or where the fault lies i have had years of painful experiences which no book can prepare u for
Hi All, Just sat 2391 exam last nite, did anyone else think it was hard. Does any body know how many marks you need to pass?
Just sat 2391 exam last nite, did anyone else think it was hard. Does any body know how many marks you need to pass?< 50% of A questions 60% of B questions