Advice please on written answers

[Peter]

I have just read through some past paper exam questions and am a little bewildered where to start in answering them as I feel I do not have the experience to give a competent answer. What I would like to do is perhaps have a go at a question and see from there what happens but am a little tentative in submitting as for some I dont have a clue where to start. I just want to build up my experience in answering these questions from the 2002 aper and onwards. what is the best way to attack these questionsthrough the forum if you are severly lacking the knowledge to answer them without draining the resources here in the forum. does any body have a clear strategy for answering them and the format expected?
Many thanks
Ian

There is no fixed format. Answer in a way that you are comfortable with and that is used appropriately - diagrams, bulleted lists, tables, sentences and paragraphs.

If you are that unsure, just start off with a list of the key points that you think are relevant, or even with a description of what you think the question is asking for.

You have hit one important nail right on the head thought which is that experience is very important - you cannot "learn" a format to pass the exam - it is all about demonstrating to the examiner that you can apply sound engineering judgement to a situation that demands a good underpinning knowledge of signalling to understand.

Try putting a skeleton answer up and get feedback on that, and then flesh it out a bit.

Not sure if that helps.