Who Enjoyed Their 2391 Tonight??

marc_jones · Jul 22, 2010

I just thought id see who, like me enjoyed the pleasure of City & Guilds Finest exam tonight??

TPES · Jul 23, 2010

How do you know you would have 25 marks left to play with?

There is no pass percentage rate

iceman · Jul 23, 2010

isnt it 100 marks to pass with 150 possable marks available?

marc_jones · Jul 23, 2010

Dont think so, i think its along the lines of the top 40% (ish) in the country pass and the rest lose sleep for the next 6 months!!

Stu spark · Jul 23, 2010

iceman said:
isnt it 100 marks to pass with 150 possable marks available?

thats correct you need 90 marks if there is a low pass rate and 100 if the pass rate is high. still waiting on June results they must be due soon. The 40 days is well up now. its beyond me how people can go and sit a three or four day course and expect to pass this exam

TPES · Jul 23, 2010

How so you know this, is it written anywhere?

marc_jones · Jul 23, 2010

Stu spark said:
thats correct you need 90 marks if there is a low pass rate and 100 if the pass rate is high. still waiting on June results they must be due soon. The 40 days is well up now. its beyond me how people can go and sit a three or four day course and expect to pass this exam

So an overall percentage compared to percentages over the two sections and then a combined??

Jurasic Spark · Jul 23, 2010

magic-sid said:
near enough, but had to x 2 as tp&n you only x2 for pscfc between 2 lines, not required to double it for pefc

i think it should have been 1.53ka

i messed it up though by rushing at the end and put 1.533ka, kicked my self when i walked out the door.

As time was running out i didn't waste time drawing the 2 diagrams of the fault current path, as only worth 6 marks and i could of made them 6 marks up on other questions by writing 1 line answers.

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Stu spark · Jul 23, 2010

magic-sid said:
How so you know this, is it written anywhere?

i was told by my tutor before we sat the exam. basically the powers that be decide if the exam was hard looking at the overall marks and if it was then 90 marks is the pass rate. or if it was easy and there is high overall marks its 100 marks to pass. so to make sure you have passed your looking at the later of the two. hope this helps

Stu spark · Jul 23, 2010

Jurasic Spark said:
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i agree your looking for the greater of the two (PEFC, PSSC)to record as PFC.
but you would only times PSSC by two on three phase not PEFC

topcop999 · Jul 26, 2010

I took mine on 22nd July 2010 also. I'm glad Stu Spark clarified that about the PEFC as I also thought it was 0.766KA due to it being PEFC rather than PSSC (Line to Line). Keep talking myself out of the odd question here and there, but overall found it easier than some of the previous sample papers I had encountered.

Only time will tell. I have a feeling that the IR test question for 15 marks might have wanted you to estimate the IR bunch test reading by adding those results from the table in parallel. I didn't do that and just quoted 2M Ohm as a threshold. I think they will have been looking for some comment about disconnecting the sensitive RCBO's prior to testing too.