just started the 2391

[i=p/u]

this thread will go on for quite a while (14 WEEKS), to exams... ive nearly read gn3 for the first time and there is a few things i dont fully understand but im sure i will for when the time comes from help from you guys/dudes/punks who know just a little to much.

 

[fredrico]

Try and do as many past exam papers as you can. Reading GN3 is one thing, but answering exam questions is another. Did mine last month, still waiting for results.

 

[Richard Burns]

this thread will go on for quite a while (14 WEEKS), to exams... ive nearly read gn3 for the first time and there is a few things i dont fully understand but im sure i will for when the time comes from help from you guys/dudes/punks who know just a little to much.

Read on MacDuff, you can never know too much!

 

[SPARTYKUS]

Nice one i=p/u, enjoy it. I loved it but I'm an electrical geek at the best of times. Make sure you get your moneys' worth out of the lecturers!

!st day on ours he read riot act and basically said most of us in room will fail so if anyone wants to cut to the chase leave now!!!

Is that standard?

 

[GT1]

Haha.
Was he ex military. !!

 

[SPARTYKUS]

possibly. He like bourbon (drink not biscuits) does that help

 

[La Poste]

Our lecturer was useless, I learnt more on this forum than I did at college, much more in fact.

Definitely get into doing loads of past papers, it's the key to passing the exam IMHO.

 

[GLENNSPARK]

Watch your terminology on this one i=p/u......you WILL lose marks for wrong terminology.....

 

[SPARTYKUS]

Watch your terminology on this one i=p/u......you WILL lose marks for wrong terminology.....

Toptastic advice from the Glennster.

 

[jase]

howcome 14 weeks? I have seen a course i am interested in 2391-10, it is 5 days long with written paper the week after, what is the norm?

 

[SirKit Breaker]

Buy the C&G 2391 exam success book. Well worth the £15 or so quid. It is a massive help for the written exam, with lots of tips for saving time, especially if like me you are not the best artist that ever graced the planet, and can sometimes ramble on a bit when trying to describe in detail something. This book shows you how to cut the crap and save time.

15 weeks is a good period to get to grips with GN3, learn a bit at a time, and you will have no big trouble on this course or the exams.

The biggest cause of failure is lack of revision time, so if you have 15 weeks, you stand more chance than someone who is going to take it the week after.

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

 

[SPARTYKUS]

Because it was never designed to be done in 5 days, and in my opinion that does not give you the quality time between each lesson for the evening's content to perculate through the grey matter.

Its 10 odd weeks at night school, cheaper, better for understanding, and the way it was meant to be done!


However I can see that a crash course may be some peoples only option for various reasons. Expect to pay through the nasal cavity

 

[Mark_Burgess]

Learn the GN3 inside out, ask questions if you don't know something, get doing past papers, then you should be okay.

 

[GLENNSPARK]

what i=p/u can ask the lecturer n all is what the previous months pass rate is/was as C&G have a legal requirement to disclose such info....what the pass rate of the training centre is and what the reasons were for the last months markings fails.....such as for wrong terminology (one that keeps cropping up on this one)..or continuity of ring finals (another one)..or things like applying the rule of thumb to measured values rather than the tabulated values of Zs (my lecturer said that this one kept coming back from C&G HQ n all)....these are just a few examples but my lecturer said there were allsorts....mostly silly stuff n all but they arn`t in the business of careing down at C&G....if it aint right (as per GN3)....you dont get the mark...simple as....

 

[i=p/u]

he told us to go on c&g website and read examiners report and says about terminoligy... which i find hard to believe.. but cheers

Toptastic advice from the Glennster.