I tabbed my regs book for my exam today

[Rather be Fishing]

But one has fallen out. I saw it in my Van this morning just sitting there on the floor. I'm at work all day and then I'll be going tonsit it so I'm not gonna have a chance to go through the regs book to 're assign this bloody tab

If i show you the tab I don't suppose anyone would no what page it's supposed to be stuck to do they.

 

[Rather be Fishing]

That could be handy information in case I start flapping. I doubt I'll flap as I'm not putting pressure on myself but if I do that will settle me and give me a logical place to head from the previous question

Thanks a million chaps

 

[newfutile]

On my 18th the questions mostly followed the book order so early questions on part one and two near the en of the exam you would expect section 7 , i used highlighter pens on the contents and on the edge of the BBB pages for quick reference .

 

[DPG]

That could be handy information in case I start flapping. I doubt I'll flap as I'm not putting pressure on myself but if I do that will settle me and give me a logical place to head from the previous question

Thanks a million chaps

You'll be fine. There's loads of time. Go though and do the easy ones first, flag any that you aren't certain about. Then go through the flagged ones and spend more time on them.

Don't forget to make sure you answer every question, even if its guess. Don't leave any blank.

 

[Zerax]

The best method is to go through the questions and hit the easy ones first... I don't know how well you know the material, but I would expect you'd know at least half the answers without having to look in the book at all...

That's half done already... and you'll have ooodles of time left.

Then go back through the questions that you didn't immediately know the answers to... a simple lookup in the index/contents will probably tackle half of what's left... that's 75% answered already.

With your remaining time.. which will be loads and loads... you can start to 'research' the answers by a bit more reading of sections etc.... but you'll still find most of the answers quite quickly... DON'T get bogged down with a single question though... give it a few mins... then either have a guess and flag the question as unsure... or move on.

At this stage you should be over the pass mark with at least 30 mins left to go over the ones that are left or you've flagged. If you're not 100% certain of an answer, you can usually discount a couple of the options... so it's a 50/50 after that... Any time left... go over any that you flagged as not sure of.

 

[Mike Johnson]

That's why most carry around the "On site Guide"

 

[goasis]

I found tabs for the start of each 'part' and a couple of other key points useful, so you can get there really quickly. You can get really bogged down using the index.
More important is to get your head around the overall structure of the book, and what is covered in each part . You should be able to pick out some key words in the question and they will direct your thoughts to the correct section. And then the Part contents is a useful second place to look.
Just looking up RCD's in the main index for eg will probably prove to be a very long way round finding what you want.

 

[goasis]

Oh and I second what Zerax said, go straight through the exam , I answered all the questions without the book, any that I wasn't 100% I clicked the flag. That way, I at least had an answer down for everything. Then go back through looking up all that you have flagged. And yes when I did it, it was in order of the book, and you knew how many questions were from each part. Make a note of that before hand and you'll have narrowed down where you need to look for each question to a handful of pages. Simple!

 

[Rather be Fishing]

I should have p4obably done this

 

[Rockingit]

Best way to speed around the regs book is often overlooked - the frankly marvelous tables of figures and table of tables (pg518-522).

 

[telectrix]

The last exam I took I was only allowed a slide rule. ?

along with the slate and scribe tool?

 

[telectrix]

still got my slide rule somewhwere. fabe castell, with useful HP-kW cursor marks.

 

[Mike Johnson]

along with the slate and scribe tool?

No Quill and parchment.

 

[telectrix]

not papyrus?

 

[Mike Johnson]

No this was a sophisticated exam, the previous exams where on stone tablets though.

 

[telectrix]

No this was a sophisticated exam, the previous exams where on stone tablets though.

that must ave been the 1st edition.. 10 commandments.

1. thou shalt not worship any other publication before me ( except GN3).
2. thou shalt not cause electrocution of thy neighbour.
3.thou shalt no covet thy neighbour's eleccy. nor his wife. nor his cattle earth mat.
4.thou shalt not steal from thine supplier.
5
thinks of more after beer.