Doing 4 modules in one sitting

[armm22]

Hi Everyone,

I am thinking about doing 4 modules this year and would like to get everyone's perspective and experience doing 4.

I currently have 7 years experience ranging from faulting & maintainence, installation and recently design. Currently I'm a licenced signalling designer. The modules I have looked at are 1,2,3 & 5.

I am not sure whether to do a few this year then a few the next. I would like to sit them in one go.

Any opinions are welcomed.

Thanks

Alex

[Peter]

Hi Everyone,

I am thinking about doing 4 modules this year and would like to get everyone's perspective and experience doing 4.

I currently have 7 years experience ranging from faulting & maintainence, installation and recently design. Currently I'm a licenced signalling designer. The modules I have looked at are 1,2,3 & 5.

I am not sure whether to do a few this year then a few the next. I would like to sit them in one go.

Any opinions are welcomed.

Thanks

Alex

Your choice of modules certainly matches your background. Your length of experience is also reasonable to have given you sufficient exposure to gather the required knowledge.

I would not suggest taking any modules with lower than a couple of years experience, but that does not mean that you need four times that for four modules - there is a lot that is transferable between them.

Being ready to be able to take anyone of four modules and sitting all four in one session are two different things. I spoke to a colleague recently who did four in one day end he found it to be a very hard day. His analysis is that he may have got better results of he had spread them over two years just because of the fatigue issues.

Now, if you want to stand a chance of joining the ilustrious list of Thorrowgood Scholarship winners, doing the four in one go is a must.

In theory, there is nothing to lose (other than exam fees) in having a go if you are ready since if you miss out on one (or more), you can re-do them the following year when you would be doing your second tranche anyway.

Peter

[PJW]

Don't disagree with anything that Peter has written.

I personaly don't see much value in pushing yourself to do the 4 in one hit unless-
a) you feel that you are in with a chance of the scholarship, or
b) you have to travel a very long way to the exam centre (I know someone in China who had a day's train journey and then a flight to get to the exam and the ame trip back again!), or
c) your personal circumstances are going to be changing in such a way that the exam next year may be much more difficult (e.g. young child etc), or
d) your work circumstances are going to be changing in such a way that the exam next year may be much more difficult, or
e) your employer is giving some financial or other incentive to do so.

It is already mid March and if you are intending 4 modules in October 2014 then you most certainly need to be starting focussed exam preparation NOW even if as I assume you actually have quite a foundation of relevant technical knowledge.

PJW

Hi Everyone,

I am thinking about doing 4 modules this year and would like to get everyone's perspective and experience doing 4.

I currently have 7 years experience ranging from faulting & maintainence, installation and recently design. Currently I'm a licenced signalling designer. The modules I have looked at are 1,2,3 & 5.

I am not sure whether to do a few this year then a few the next. I would like to sit them in one go.

Any opinions are welcomed.

Thanks

Alex

Your choice of modules certainly matches your background. Your length of experience is also reasonable to have given you sufficient exposure to gather the required knowledge.

I would not suggest taking any modules with lower than a couple of years experience, but that does not mean that you need four times that for four modules - there is a lot that is transferable between them.

Being ready to be able to take anyone of four modules and sitting all four in one session are two different things. I spoke to a colleague recently who did four in one day end he found it to be a very hard day. His analysis is that he may have got better results of he had spread them over two years just because of the fatigue issues.

Now, if you want to stand a chance of joining the ilustrious list of Thorrowgood Scholarship winners, doing the four in one go is a must.

In theory, there is nothing to lose (other than exam fees) in having a go if you are ready since if you miss out on one (or more), you can re-do them the following year when you would be doing your second tranche anyway.

Peter