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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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  • What percentage of electricians do you all think are using electronic versions of the Wiring Regulations and other IET publications?

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  • in reply to Sparkingchip
    Sparkingchip said:
    What percentage of electricians do you all think are using electronic versions of the Wiring Regulations and other IET publications?

    I don't think we could guess that ... I'm sure IET have statistics of how many "seats" they license vs how many copies are printed ... but that won't tell us about individuals or companies that have both paper and electronic.

  • in reply to gkenyon

    I suspect the biggest proportion are those that don't look at the regs themselves from one year to the next, in either form.

       - Andy.

  • in reply to AJJewsbury

    It might be interesting to see data on how many printed copies have been sold for each of the past few amendments.

    I suspect that a lot of electricians don't even have a copy. I think that you could get by quite well without if you are not in a CPS.

  • in reply to Sparkingchip
    Sparkingchip said:
    What percentage of electricians do you all think are using electronic versions of the Wiring Regulations and other IET publications?

    0.25% Well, that is my guess. Evidence from my 2391 classes would suggest that neither book nor electronic version is "used" with any degree of regularity. Sure, they have been browbeaten into the paper copy, it may even hang about in their van and eventually take on an abused appearance, but I guarantee few would be able to use it to find the max Zs for a C6 MCB!

    I have said before, most lads just type their query into chat GPT. 

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