The Review of Oct 2015 exam was held yesterday; I hope to get some notes of this available here in about a week. The IRSE have promised to make the video recording and Powerpoint slides considerably quicker than was achieved last year.
In summary, the most important items-
1. It was confirmed that the Reading List is to be amalgamated into the Study packs for each of the modules and that the latest revisions will gradually be placed on the IRSE website member's area over next month or so.
2. It was stated that there will be some changes regarding eligibility to enter for a module in the 2016 exam and that the details of this will be published in the next IRSE News.
3. Syllabus not changing this year; a reminder though that it did change for 2015, so when looking at any earlier past paper need to beware that since that date there has been some shifting of topics between modules, some new topics, some emphasis changes.
4. Another warning to candidates was that they should certainly not rely on any topic appearing in 2016 and if it does it may not be in the same form as previous years- this is particularly true of track calculations, aspect sequence diagrams and stopping headway calculations.
and then the usual pleas
repeated YEAR
after YEAR
after YEAR ...............
Read the question and read the entire question before you start answering any of it and then answer what was asked. The answer to last year's question (or any previous year's question) is not going to be correct for answering the question set- these may have some relevance of course, but do not learn last year's answer and reproduce it!
Here are some screenshots of the results-
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As the last talk in the YM seminar prior to the exam review, I did a session about Preparing for the IRSE Exam.
Several people asked me for slides but the file size is large (some 25MB) , so I have placed on this Dropbox link
https://www.dropbox.com/s/a1bjx670fn7ka8....pptx?dl=0
In summary, the most important items-
1. It was confirmed that the Reading List is to be amalgamated into the Study packs for each of the modules and that the latest revisions will gradually be placed on the IRSE website member's area over next month or so.
2. It was stated that there will be some changes regarding eligibility to enter for a module in the 2016 exam and that the details of this will be published in the next IRSE News.
3. Syllabus not changing this year; a reminder though that it did change for 2015, so when looking at any earlier past paper need to beware that since that date there has been some shifting of topics between modules, some new topics, some emphasis changes.
4. Another warning to candidates was that they should certainly not rely on any topic appearing in 2016 and if it does it may not be in the same form as previous years- this is particularly true of track calculations, aspect sequence diagrams and stopping headway calculations.
and then the usual pleas
repeated YEAR
after YEAR
after YEAR ...............
Read the question and read the entire question before you start answering any of it and then answer what was asked. The answer to last year's question (or any previous year's question) is not going to be correct for answering the question set- these may have some relevance of course, but do not learn last year's answer and reproduce it!
Here are some screenshots of the results-
[attachment=1986]
[attachment=1988]
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As the last talk in the YM seminar prior to the exam review, I did a session about Preparing for the IRSE Exam.
Several people asked me for slides but the file size is large (some 25MB) , so I have placed on this Dropbox link
https://www.dropbox.com/s/a1bjx670fn7ka8....pptx?dl=0
PJW
