D Day 2391

[CRAGS]

Well the day has finally arrived . Time to do some extreme revising. Good luck to all taking the exam today.

De briefing later on

 

[acat]

Best of luck to you and everyone else


Chris

 

[confused-fuse]

yes good luck to all ... and dont rush everything just slow down and think ...

 

[iceman]

good luck with the 2391 tonite fellas im doin mine 22nd july they wanted me to pay £82 to get on tonites exam as a late entry so im going to wait as its going to be half the price, these training centres always out to scam ya

 

[sams]

Mine is today to good luck to everyone taking the exam and let us know how it went

 

[GStueyXR]

Well the day has finally arrived . Time to do some extreme revising. Good luck to all taking the exam today.

De briefing later on

Good luck to us all

 

[brucelee]

good luck to each and everyone of us

 

[Battlecrease]

Taking mine tonight already passed the practical so a little bit of pressure off ! Good Luck to everybody and READ THE QUESTION .

 

[MUFC1999]

Back from exam. Thank god it's all over (apart from my practical).

Fell like it went OK but I'll still be nervously awaiting my results.

 

[brucelee]

hi mate i to am just back from exam
and i am not so sure ive done ok
especially the last question on the volt drop
we have not been shown how to do it, its ot in any of my course notes or many iee,nic books ,exam success or passed papers i have been doing ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
didnt have a clue where to begin
i thought to work volt drop it was mv/A/M x IB x Length divided by 1000

 

[CRAGS]

pretty sure I am going to need resit

 

[brucelee]

pretty sure I am going to need resit

me to mate did you know how to do the volt drop question college hasnt showed us how to do that and i will be telling him after i have done my practical
i have studied every single day all day since end of jan and half the questions that came up were nothing like exam success or college notes or in any of the many books so how they expect you to be able to answer is beyond me

 

[CRAGS]

I ansered all questions but some were complete shots in the dark the calculations caught me out big time the ring main one and the last one and the one on the first sheet with parallel paths. did quick add up at end od the ones I think I knew had definetly got right come to bout 60 so hopefully there was some lucky guessing in there which I doubt. Do you have to wait for your results before you can put in for resit????

 

[CRAGS]

me to mate did you know how to do the volt drop question college hasnt showed us how to do that and i will be telling him after i have done my practical
i have studied every single day all day since end of jan and half the questions that came up were nothing like exam success or college notes or in any of the many books so how they expect you to be able to answer is beyond me

same here not really done volt drop so had a guess got a result of 44.5 or something like that so it seemed pretty close prob wrong

 

[MUFC1999]

hi mate i to am just back from exam
and i am not so sure ive done ok
especially the last question on the volt drop
we have not been shown how to do it, its ot in any of my course notes or many iee,nic exam success or passed papers i have been doing ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
didnt have a clue wrer to begin
i thought to work volt drop it was mv/A/M x IB x Length divided by 1000

I worked out resistance of cable then went for Vd=IxR

Think the answer was 6.1volts so it complied.

The only 1 I didn't attempt was no.6 3 characteristics of a low resistance ohm meter. My mind just wasn't remembering that 1.

Glad it's over, I fell like I have a clear head for the first time in weeks.

Don't worry over the result, it's out of our hands now.

 

[brucelee]

yeah i need to find out when can resit whoever writes them exams is having a laugh i answered that with no load voltage of 4-24v and current of 200mA and for last one ohms which was just somethig to put down

 

[CRAGS]

I worked out resistance of cable then went for Vd=IxR

Think the answer was 6.1volts so it complied.

The only 1 I didn't attempt was no.6 3 characteristics of a low resistance ohm meter. My mind just wasn't remembering that 1.

Glad it's over, I fell like I have a clear head for the first time in weeks.

Don't worry over the result, it's out of our hands now.

I totally screwed that one up then. no6 I was not sure but put the tests it did not sure if right i.e cpc ring final circuit and another which I cannot remember now only thing I could think it was asking for???

 

[CRAGS]

MUFC where did you sit yours??

 

[brucelee]

i put
continuity of cpc inc main and supplementary boding
insulation resistance
external earth fault loop impedence
earth fault loop impedence
pfc
functional testing rcbo

 

[MUFC1999]

I totally screwed that one up then. no6 I was not sure but put the tests it did not sure if right i.e cpc ring final circuit and another which I cannot remember now only thing I could think it was asking for???

Thats wrong I'mn afraid, the answer is on page 82, GN3

 

[MUFC1999]

MUFC where did you sit yours??

Bolton.
How about you?

 

[brucelee]

cheers mate
i just guessed half of the questions i didnt know what they were asking
they want to try and word it a little easier for us that dont have degrees in english i will have a look now mate i did mine at bury college the tutor didnt teach any of that

 

[CRAGS]

Bolton.
How about you?

Stoke Burslem

 

[CRAGS]

Thats wrong I'mn afraid, the answer is on page 82, GN3

AAAARRRRGGGHHH Thats another 3 marks gone

 

[brucelee]

Thats wrong I'mn afraid, the answer is on page 82, GN3

hi mate
which question are u on about the one for three charicteristics of a low resistance ohmeter or the one for 6 tests why the installation isolated for 1hr

 

[MUFC1999]

hi mate
which question are u on about the one for three charicteristics of a low resistance ohmeter or the one for 6 tests why the installation isolated for 1hr

3 characteristics

 

[brucelee]

well i think i got two of them the 4-24v and the current of 200mA for the third i guessed and put ohms now i can see i should have put a measuring range of 0.2 to 2ohms is that right

 

[brucelee]

I worked out resistance of cable then went for Vd=IxR

Think the answer was 6.1volts so it complied.

The only 1 I didn't attempt was no.6 3 characteristics of a low resistance ohm meter. My mind just wasn't remembering that 1.

Glad it's over, I fell like I have a clear head for the first time in weeks.

Don't worry over the result, it's out of our hands now.

i worked out the resistance of the cable then from there was lost

 

[brucelee]

well guys i suppose all we can do is wait now and hope for the best but on my side think i have wasted the last 4 months learning thigs that didnt even come up it wasnt like any of the past papers or exam success
and the 8 week course at college was a complete waste of time and money

 

[CRAGS]

well i think i got two of them the 4-24v and the current of 200mA for the third i guessed and put ohms now i can see i should have put a measuring range of 0.2 to 2ohms is that right

you had a better idea on this one than I did you never know till you get the results

 

[danielc]

hi guys,

just got back from mine in chesterfield.

blew my mind and the 2.5 hours flew by.

a few guys in our exam walked after 30 minutes to an hour, just glad its over and done with and now have to wait an age for the fail to drop on the doorstep!

dan

 

[brucelee]

you had a better idea on this one than I did you never know till you get the results

yeah mate we just have to see i know something when i have done the practical on tuesday i will be telling the tutor of what i think of his method of teaching as we didnt cover hardly any of what came up in the exam
good luck to mate i think its just a con because if loads passed last time then they make this exam harder to keep pass rates down

 

[CRAGS]

hi guys,

just got back from mine in chesterfield.

blew my mind and the 2.5 hours flew by.

a few guys in our exam walked after 30 minutes to an hour, just glad its over and done with and now have to wait an age for the fail to drop on the doorstep!

dan

They would not let them out of ours till after a hour.. some went after bout hour half I took the full duration as I wanted to check some stuff over. Dont think it helped though

 

[CRAGS]

yeah mate we just have to see i know something when i have done the practical on tuesday i will be telling the tutor of what i think of his method of teaching as we didnt cover hardly any of what came up in the exam
good luck to mate i think its just a con because if loads passed last time then they make this exam harder to keep pass rates down

We were told that 75 percent out of our college passed the last one

 

[brucelee]

hi guys,

just got back from mine in chesterfield.

blew my mind and the 2.5 hours flew by.

a few guys in our exam walked after 30 minutes to an hour, just glad its over and done with and now have to wait an age for the fail to drop on the doorstep!

dan

yeah mate they are having a laugh there was one guy in our course who answered the last question and hes not sure we were tol 7 out of 9 passed last time and one of them who failed sat it with us i think this time 2 out of 10 will pass if they lucky

 

[danielc]

its a weird exam really funny how some people manage it 1st time but as i have spoke to some people they are on the 6th attempt tonight, bloody expensive by that time.

just have to do the practical now and at least i might have 1 part out of the way!

luckily my job doesn't depend on it unlike some others which must make it 10 times worse!

 

[Baal]

Did anyone manage to get a copy of the paper?

 

[CRAGS]

its a weird exam really funny how some people manage it 1st time but as i have spoke to some people they are on the 6th attempt tonight, bloody expensive by that time.

just have to do the practical now and at least i might have 1 part out of the way!

luckily my job doesn't depend on it unlike some others which must make it 10 times worse!

Nor mine job wise. Got my practical out the way was happy bout passing that. probably took to much on doing 2330 at the same time. But did not expect pass so will not be dissapointed if I do.

 

[Battlecrease]

I think it will be a re-sit for me I found it very tough and seemed to cover most things I hadnt revised I thought the second part of the paper was easier than the first why do they make the questions so ambiguos you have to read the qustions 4 or 5 times and then you are not sure what they are after and as for questions on IT systems whats that all about I`ve never even seen one !

 

[brucelee]

my job doesnt depend on it as i am a carer for my partner since she was left disabled, but i am hoping to set up soon by myself as i have already spent £5000 on Books, megger and other stuff courses i did last year 17th,2377,part p, 2393 building regs these i did ok at the building regs i got 100% after reading a book for a weekend the others i got over 90% This exam is a joke i have to do my practical tuesday and not lookig forward to it now. my mate who did these courses with me last year he sat the 2391 last september at bury college and passed both first time after 4 week course 1 day a week . where our course this time was spread over 8 weeks evening and i been studying since jan tried to do it with him but course was full by then and this was the first course they ran again since then so i will probably have to wait months before i can resit he told me if he passed i deffo would he as been phoning me asking things about things to do with this ad he is out there testing
I just think it depends on if you lucky on the day with the questions they ask