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At the last Elex show in Coventry two years ago I was walking up an aisle and there was a group of four keynote speakers stood talking to each other, three of them recognised me and said hello,  I knew who the fourth person was despite not having spoken to him before as it was Tony Cable.

I stood chatting to them for a few minutes and Tony Cable told us that he failed his exams at college whilst he was an apprentice and had to drop back a year, redo the year and retake the exams. He said that as a teenager it was a wake up call that he needed to stop messing about and take college seriously.

There are some people who fail exams for a variety of reasons, but it doesn’t mean they are not capable or competent , they just need to get their act together and have another go.

Regards the Wiring Regulations exams, I have done the course and exams four times having done the 16th Edition as ten weeks of evening classes , 17th Edition as a one day course, 17th Edition update as a one day course and the 18th Edition as a three day course, so I should have the hang of it by now. When I did the 17th update course the lecturer said to me you will pass this exam easily if you’re the sort of person who can look things up quickly in the Argos catalogue, bearing in mind it was multiple choice on a screen rather requiring a handwritten answer like the 16th Edition exam.

When I did the 18th the invigilator checked our regs books for notes and prompts, she said mine was the cleanest regs book she had ever seen with a minimal amount of highlighting, unlike a couple she confiscated and swapped for a training centre copies. I finished the exam early and having been back through my answers twice signed out, but as I was in a corner I stayed the full time so as not to disturb anyone else despite others leaving. I sat and watched the remaining people, most of them were obviously not used to handling a physical book, the younger guys who are used to looking things up on electronic devices such as phones and tablets cannot physically handle a book and don’t have the ability to “thumb through a book” looking for the page they want, books are alien to them, they don’t have dog eared reference books with the top corners bent over from thumbing through. 

You either understand that or you don’t depending on your age and how accustomed you are to reading physical books, the guys who aren’t used to handling physical books are now at a disadvantage.

At the last Elex show in Coventry two years ago I was walking up an aisle and there was a group of four keynote speakers stood talking to each other, three of them recognised me and said hello,  I knew who the fourth person was despite not having spoken to him before as it was Tony Cable.

I stood chatting to them for a few minutes and Tony Cable told us that he failed his exams at college whilst he was an apprentice and had to drop back a year, redo the year and retake the exams. He said that as a teenager it was a wake up call that he needed to stop messing about and take college seriously.

There are some people who fail exams for a variety of reasons, but it doesn’t mean they are not capable or competent , they just need to get their act together and have another go.

Regards the Wiring Regulations exams, I have done the course and exams four times having done the 16th Edition as ten weeks of evening classes , 17th Edition as a one day course, 17th Edition update as a one day course and the 18th Edition as a three day course, so I should have the hang of it by now. When I did the 17th update course the lecturer said to me you will pass this exam easily if you’re the sort of person who can look things up quickly in the Argos catalogue, bearing in mind it was multiple choice on a screen rather requiring a handwritten answer like the 16th Edition exam.

When I did the 18th the invigilator checked our regs books for notes and prompts, she said mine was the cleanest regs book she had ever seen with a minimal amount of highlighting, unlike a couple she confiscated and swapped for a training centre copies. I finished the exam early and having been back through my answers twice signed out, but as I was in a corner I stayed the full time so as not to disturb anyone else despite others leaving. I sat and watched the remaining people, most of them were obviously not used to handling a physical book, the younger guys who are used to looking things up on electronic devices such as phones and tablets cannot physically handle a book and don’t have the ability to “thumb through a book” looking for the page they want, books are alien to them, they don’t have dog eared reference books with the top corners bent over from thumbing through. 

You either understand that or you don’t depending on your age and how accustomed you are to reading physical books, the guys who aren’t used to handling physical books are now at a disadvantage.