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Electricians need to live in the real world

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“Electricians need to live in the real world”. That was the response by a chief examiner from City and Guilds to a question posed by the IET’s own doyen of sartorial elegance, Mr Mark Coles when he asked the chief examiner if electronic copies of BS7671 could be used in future exams. “Oh no” said the chief examiner, “electricians need to understand how to source information from the book.” Perhaps what he meant to say was that City and Guilds are very protective of a well-embedded revenue stream and that any attempt to facilitate online exams using the electronic book would require a complete and expensive engine change. Anyway, moving forward, its the paper version of the 7671 for those sparks living in the real world!

It wasn’t apparent if Mr Coles agreed with the chief examiner, but in his effort not to be contrary, but without being deferential, Mr Coles had the last word, “ah well, maybe some time in the future”. At least that will offer a tiny glimmer of hope for us sparks who do not live in the real world!

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  • Are you suggesting that books or electronic devices with copies of the text of them are not both equally 'unreal' in some way ?

    They are both after all, just a convenient way to condense thoughts to get them out of one head and into another, in in absentia.
    In any given language the original transfer method for a 'real' thought is surely spoken ?
    I can see reading from stationary paper that needs manually turning going the same way as the  wind-up gramophone or the shadow mask CRT in a few years, and agree,  the idea is quaintly out of step. (quick show of hands, when did you last go to a public library ? In my case something that used to be weekly is now probably less than annual.)

    M.

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    mapj1 said:
    I can see reading from stationary paper that needs manually turning going the same way as the  wind-up gramophone or the shadow mask CRT in a few years, and agree,  the idea is quaintly out of step. (quick show of hands, when did you last go to a public library ?

    In my day, you could have taken a transistor radio with you in your punt, but a gramophone was better.

    I am keeping my CRT tellies until they die (or I do).

    Yesterday, but admittedly only to use computer access to ancestry.co.uk. In fact the library's subscription is so low level as to be useless.

    I was sorting out some office stuff today and put a few envelopes in my stationary cupboard, but I doubt that I shall ever use them. I still have some of QEII's golden jubilee stamps.

    Back to the OP, if some candidates need to know the general layout of BOB, and how to use the index; they may be at a disadvantage compared with those who just type and search.

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    mapj1 said:
    I can see reading from stationary paper that needs manually turning going the same way as the  wind-up gramophone or the shadow mask CRT in a few years, and agree,  the idea is quaintly out of step. (quick show of hands, when did you last go to a public library ?

    In my day, you could have taken a transistor radio with you in your punt, but a gramophone was better.

    I am keeping my CRT tellies until they die (or I do).

    Yesterday, but admittedly only to use computer access to ancestry.co.uk. In fact the library's subscription is so low level as to be useless.

    I was sorting out some office stuff today and put a few envelopes in my stationary cupboard, but I doubt that I shall ever use them. I still have some of QEII's golden jubilee stamps.

    Back to the OP, if some candidates need to know the general layout of BOB, and how to use the index; they may be at a disadvantage compared with those who just type and search.

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