After 10 years part-time with the same training organisation, I have been culled! Long story short, I refused to take a group of 9 lads through the 18th in a classroom situation back in June due to C19 ( I am at that age where I dont want to get the damn thing). So fair enough, in steps the PAT tutor. Good man he is too, not from an electrical background and wouldnt know the difference between an ACB and a SPD! Still, he presented a 3-day course that was well received, more especially since everyone passed. I have no idea of the content other than that it included hundreds of multiple-choice questions. Happy with the outcome, and also perhaps because the tutor was half a hundred cheaper than me per day, poor uncle Lyle has been dumped! Yes, my feathers are ruffled a tad but perhaps the course that I presented which, I felt, was grounded on good solid learning is really not the ticket for an industry that just wants success in an exam! Ah well, back to shopping in Lidl!
It’s a balance between hothousing and coaching to pass the exam and actually teaching the students something that they will remember and take away with them.
If you have a group of students who have not taken an exam for donkeys years they do actually need coaching on exam techniques and may even need teaching how to look things up in a book as most have not read a book for years and have no idea of how to go about using the indexes and headings or how to thumb through a book flicking the pages to get to where they need to be.
I did the 16th edition course as ten weeks of evening classes and at the end of it felt I had had time to learn things, as there was a week in-between classes to fo home work and revise. The update courses I did in one day, the 18th I was told I had to do three days, which was a bit mad as I did a sixty mile commute each way on top of everything else. I came home and revised and find mock exams, but didn’t feel I learnt anywhere near as much as I did when I did the 16th.
It’s a balance between hothousing and coaching to pass the exam and actually teaching the students something that they will remember and take away with them.
If you have a group of students who have not taken an exam for donkeys years they do actually need coaching on exam techniques and may even need teaching how to look things up in a book as most have not read a book for years and have no idea of how to go about using the indexes and headings or how to thumb through a book flicking the pages to get to where they need to be.
I did the 16th edition course as ten weeks of evening classes and at the end of it felt I had had time to learn things, as there was a week in-between classes to fo home work and revise. The update courses I did in one day, the 18th I was told I had to do three days, which was a bit mad as I did a sixty mile commute each way on top of everything else. I came home and revised and find mock exams, but didn’t feel I learnt anywhere near as much as I did when I did the 16th.
