Videos of EICRs on Youtube

Sparkingchip: 
 

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 seriousl

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 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. 

I can not see the reason to disallow marked or highlighted Regs. books in an open book Regs' exam.

Not being able to use a book for reference shows a lack of manual dexterity, which will be needed later in life and at work. Didn't the young people get any dry runs or mock exams to practice before the real thing? We seem to have walked parallel paths Sparkingchip.

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Sparkingchip: 
 

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 seriousl

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 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. 

I can not see the reason to disallow marked or highlighted Regs. books in an open book Regs' exam.

Not being able to use a book for reference shows a lack of manual dexterity, which will be needed later in life and at work. Didn't the young people get any dry runs or mock exams to practice before the real thing? We seem to have walked parallel paths Sparkingchip.

Z.

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