18th Edition exam...Thursday

[Chris86]

Good evening all,

Booked in for the 18th edition exam on Thursday morning after completing the online training package with XS training.

Been getting 90% plus on the majority of the practice tests and felt pretty confident.......until yesterday when the doubts started to set in. I suppose a lot of it comes down to being in my 40's and it been a good long while since I last sat a C&G exam. I am also hearing it's much harder than the 17th.

Anyone already passed who can confirm just how awful it is and/or tell me to get a grip!

ATB

Chris

 

[Nigel]

Anyone that states the 18th is a waste of money don't understand business. For £200 per man I have now given all my clients confidence in our ability and secure in the knowledge that we stay up to date.

I have spent more than that on a weekend on the ----.

 

[ruston]

Well done Chris .
Your experience will help boost the confidence of those who have doubts.
I am retired now , I wasn't going to bother , but I might now ; Just to keep the mind occupied lol.

 

[littlespark]

Another pass here.

Scored 59 out of 60 but they couldn’t tell me which question I got wrong.
Best score out of the 8 taking the exam today.

I had one question needing the calculator, but as all the exams have different questions, it could have been none, or more.

Didn’t do so great on the mock papers and trials, so happy with the result

 

[Daz Cam]

I found the 18th to be a lot harder than the 17th, although in saying that, I did not do a course, just read through the regs a bit and booked an exam at a test centre some 70 miles away from where I live - the exam is more about where to find the answers to the badly worded questions rather than knowledge based - as long as you can confidently find your way around the regs you will be ok!

 

[Deleted member 26818]

No questions require calculations.

I had one question which required me to do the adiabatic equation for a 20A breaker.
Make certain your calculator has the square root function.

 

[Charlie_]

A waste of a day and a waste of money.
C&G allowed me to do just the 17th exam and I got 100%..
This time for the 18th I was told I couldn’t just sit the exam..
A full day sat there sucking eggs waiting to sit the exam.. 6 hours later 100%..
Did the 1 day ‘course’ help me?
No.. just a money spinner for something that is the most basic thing in our profession..

 

[Deleted member 26818]

I did the 18th in February.
Phoned up the training centre about 1:30 - 1:45.
Was told that if I got there before 2:30, I could do the exam that day.
Borrowed a book and a calculator (which unfortunately didn’t have the square root function) from the centre.
Passed, got 90%, took me just over an hour.
I figure I got 5 to 8 questions wrong.
When I did the 2391 multiple choice exam two months later, borrowed 3 books and a calculator (with the square root and the 1/x function, took me about 20 mins, I got 93% and 4 questions wrong.

 

[andysparkfree]

I did the Exam Friday morning, found the whole thing a lot more difficult than the 17th, mainly simply I'm looking up answers from badly worded questions( luckily no calculator needed on my test)
luckily passed at 75% even though was getting 90% at home (electra course)
just hoping that's no more exciting stressful tests for another 10 years

 

[Charlie_]

I find it strange that we seem to be forced into doing the regs exams but never any pressure to do an exam on the eawr or on the building regs, which are in actual fact proper legal acts of parliament..
When it comes to assessment day all we have to show is a copy of such publications

 

[Diver233]

Westward,
I had 2 questions with calculations on mine in November also had questions on medical locations.

 

[UKVette]

I did a One day course last month with the exam at the end.
I had previously done the 17th over 10 week (3 hours per week with mock tests)
I found the 1 day course (compared to 10 week) to be very rushed and really can’t remember anything, it was so fast paced! And no mock tests!
Having said that, I did PASS!73% part 4, 64% part 5 and 100% on the others. Total 85%
During the course the tutor would make suggestions of where to fit “post it” notes in the book....I had several in places while others, the book was practically full! During the exam....hardly any of the post it notes were of any use and mainly got in the way!
60 questions in 2 hours, 2 mins a question. I found some took around 4-5 minutes to answer and others well under the 2min. I finished the exam with around 1 minute to spare!
Also a lot of the questions were worded badly (typical city and guilds!)

As long as you can navigate the book, you should be fine, and don’t linger too long on a difficult question, flag it and leave them till last....good luck!!

I am worried I have too many Post-it notes.
Will they allow so many >

Vette

 

[freddo]

No questions require calculations.

I had 3 to do!

 

[westward10]

I had 3 to do!

Yeah I realise this now. When I did mine we were told no calcs were involved.

 

[Spoon]

I am worried I have too many Post-it notes.
Will they allow so many >

Vette

When I did mine they made someone take off all written notes on the book. They didn't do that for the 17th so I don't know if it's a new thing or not.

I had to use a calc for a Voltage Drop question on the 18th.

 

[telectrix]

I am worried I have too many Post-it notes.
Will they allow so many >

Vette

sod the post-its. those socks---!!!.
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i remember doing 17th back in 2011. 1 question invloved transposing adiabatic and calculating a value for t.