Its in the bag..........

[SirKit Breaker]

Well for reasons beyond my control, i had to do 2394 and 2395, its a long story so don't ask, and just to complicate matters i already have 2391.

Anyway despite the Feb 2395 exam being one of the toughest I&T exams i have ever seen (i have 2391 papers going back 10 years), and there were 2 questions i didn't even understand and i teach the subject, i passed. I have maintained my 100% C&G 1st attempt exam pass rate, but if it was ever in danger then that was it. I thought i had done enough to pass, but i also knew that it would be close. Given that i teach it, and i couldn't understand what was being asked, then god help any of you who sat it with less then my experience. I now await the 2394, but i did find this a lot easier, and i expect to have passed it, if i advent, then i need shooting.

Cheers..............Howard

 

[Richo77]

Sounds like it's just as difficult as the 2391 then. So it's not been made easier as some suggest. Well I got 2391 and I'm not intending to do the new ones.

 

[Pete999]

Me neither, out of interest what were the questions you didn't understand?if you can remember

 

[Jay Sparks]

Me neither, out of interest what were the questions you didn't understand?if you can remember

Name and DOB.
Only kidding Howard.
Well done mate.

Jay

 

[iamelectric]

Well for reasons beyond my control, i had to do 2394 and 2395, its a long story so don't ask, and just to complicate matters i already have 2391.

Anyway despite the Feb 2395 exam being one of the toughest I&T exams i have ever seen (i have 2391 papers going back 10 years), and there were 2 questions i didn't even understand and i teach the subject, i passed. I have maintained my 100% C&G 1st attempt exam pass rate, but if it was ever in danger then that was it. I thought i had done enough to pass, but i also knew that it would be close. Given that i teach it, and i couldn't understand what was being asked, then god help any of you who sat it with less then my experience. I now await the 2394, but i did find this a lot easier, and i expect to have passed it, if i advent, then i need shooting.

Cheers..............Howard

the teacher on the course i was on said the same thing , and agreed that some of the questions where not clear enough.

 

[SPARTYKUS]

Got my 2391 certificate locked in a safe.

 

[Sparkie30]

Well for reasons beyond my control, i had to do 2394 and 2395, its a long story so don't ask, and just to complicate matters i already have 2391.

Anyway despite the Feb 2395 exam being one of the toughest I&T exams i have ever seen (i have 2391 papers going back 10 years), and there were 2 questions i didn't even understand and i teach the subject, i passed. I have maintained my 100% C&G 1st attempt exam pass rate, but if it was ever in danger then that was it. I thought i had done enough to pass, but i also knew that it would be close. Given that i teach it, and i couldn't understand what was being asked, then god help any of you who sat it with less then my experience. I now await the 2394, but i did find this a lot easier, and i expect to have passed it, if i advent, then i need shooting.

Cheers..............Howard

if you found that hard imagine how others found that, I did fail it this time and struggled big time to understand some of the questions, having a go next week again. saying that though 55% passed this time highest pass rate in the last year.

 

[SPARTYKUS]

Well for reasons beyond my control, i had to do 2394 and 2395, its a long story so don't ask, and just to complicate matters i already have 2391.

Anyway despite the Feb 2395 exam being one of the toughest I&T exams i have ever seen (i have 2391 papers going back 10 years), and there were 2 questions i didn't even understand and i teach the subject, i passed. I have maintained my 100% C&G 1st attempt exam pass rate, but if it was ever in danger then that was it. I thought i had done enough to pass, but i also knew that it would be close. Given that i teach it, and i couldn't understand what was being asked, then god help any of you who sat it with less then my experience. I now await the 2394, but i did find this a lot easier, and i expect to have passed it, if i advent, then i need shooting.

Cheers..............Howard

Maybe its just you're loosing it!!!

{just kidding, just. A gag....}

 

[Badged01]

Maybe its just you're loosing it!!!

Old age effects different people in different ways .......

 

[sparkymalarky]

Have to show signs of professional development in my job and this was put forward to me. Have the 2391 also. Not overly fussed to begin with and this feedback ain't helping. HNC will do me for a while!!

 

[CockneyReject]

I sat the first 2395 exam and the tutor wasnt too sure what would be expected and we were given mock questions taken from past 2391 papers along with our 2395 theory lessons, then came the exam and out of 14 that sat it I was the only one that passed it, I only just finished it in the allowed time and the majority of the questions were worded in ways that dont make much sense and in the scenario questions some hinted at carrying on from the previous but were asking something totally different

I did find my 2394 easier to get on with, but i think that was more down to knowing what to expect but even that had some evil questions, one of mine was "define volt drop" and was worth 6 marks

 

[SJD]

I sat the first 2395 exam and the tutor wasnt too sure what would be expected and we were given mock questions taken from past 2391 papers along with our 2395 theory lessons, then came the exam and out of 14 that sat it I was the only one that passed it, I only just finished it in the allowed time and the majority of the questions were worded in ways that dont make much sense and in the scenario questions some hinted at carrying on from the previous but were asking something totally different

I also sat (and passed) this first 2395 (in April 2012), and like you had to rely on 2391 questions for practice. Indeed the 2395 questions were a little different, I thought (at the time) that they had perhaps gone out of their way to emphasise the 2395-aspect (i.e. periodic), and if you approached it with that in mind, what they were asking all made sense. I also barely finished in time.

I should add, one of the college tutors (who already had 2391) also sat this first exam, it seemed they were supposed to have passed what they were teaching!

 

[SirKit Breaker]

Me neither, out of interest what were the questions you didn't understand?if you can remember

There was one about bonding and it being inaccessible, and how would you test something or other. It just didn't make sense, so i wrote a right load of cack, but it must have been appropriate cack, or maybe the marker understood my answer as well as i understood his question, so he gave up and just gave it a tick.

And i had to describe with the aid of a diagram how to test an earth electrode. To be fair i can draw the picture, but explaining it from memory is not my strong point, and as there were only seven marks available, i didn't spend too much time worrying about.

There was another dodgy one, but i can't remember what it was.

Cheers............Howard

 

[Engineer54]

Anyway despite the Feb 2395 exam being one of the toughest I&T exams i have ever seen (i have 2391 papers going back 10 years), and there were 2 questions i didn't even understand and i teach the subject

if you found that hard imagine how others found that, I did fail it this time and struggled big time to understand some of the questions, having a go next week again. saying that though 55% passed this time highest pass rate in the last year.

So was it the toughest ever or not?? lol!!

 

[SPARTYKUS]

When I did my 2391 I seem to remember that only 29 out of every 100 passed.

 

[Sparkie30]

So was it the toughest ever or not?? lol!!

Engineer I think I know your thoughts towards 2394-2395 from previous threads. Don't know if it was the toughest or not but those muppets at C&G aren't helping with the wording of the questions.

 

[Guest55]

have you done the 2396 yet sirkit ?

i thought the 2391 exam was a walk in the park in comparison ..............

 

[SirKit Breaker]

have you done the 2396 yet sirkit ?

i thought the 2391 exam was a walk in the park in comparison ..............

Not yet Biff, got to wade my way through a 12 month course Diploma in teaching, and assorted crap like IOSH again, i am trying to swerve any qualifications that i can, and to be honest i am getting a bit peed off with it all, i seem to have been doing some qual or another for ever just lately

I would find the 2396 interesting as this is my field, but until i have waded my way through all this other crap, it is on the back boiler for now. I will get this year out of the way, and then have a look, as it is a course i would like to offer.

How did you get on with it? don't seem to recall you posting your result, or did o just miss it.

Cheers...............Howard.

 

[Engineer54]

Engineer I think I know your thoughts towards 2394-2395 from previous threads. Don't know if it was the toughest or not but those muppets at C&G aren't helping with the wording of the questions.

Regardless of what i think or don't think, we have two conflicting accounts of Febuary's 2395 exam. All i'm asking is, if it was one of the toughest I&T exams to date, how did it claim the highest pass rate over the past year??

 

[Badged01]

...... if it was one of the toughest I&T exams to date, how did it claim the highest pass rate over the past year??

Its a known fact that the students of today are better taught by more knowledgeable lecturers then previously taught the subject, plus its taught to a much higher standard than before. This coupled with the students themselves being far more intelligent than their predecesors who did the 2400/2391, means the exam can be more difficult than any other exam in the history of I&T and the exam pass rate higher than ever before ..... and with advances in teaching metholodgies plus natural brighter students sitting the exams, we will keep getting harder exams to test them but the exam pass rates will keep increasing because they are so much more intelligent!

Then again I could just be a cynic ........

 

[trebor]

I too had to take it, prob for the same reason to keep the EV happy, I thought the first three questions were really easy ie Name: Centre Number and DOB, after that it all went pear shaped