(17-05-2016, 08:18 AM)Jerry1237 Wrote: Just to add PJW, READING THE QUESTION actually means UNDERSTAND WHAT THE EXAMINER IS ASKING FOR. It is very easy under the pressure of exam questions to misread, misinterpret or assume what the question is asking for. Maybe we should consider a mini-session in July to aid peoples' technique
Jerry
I do agree that it is not actually purely READING; one of the problems which people face is that many lack a sufficiently wide experience to be able to pick up on all the nuances of the question and therefore fail to respond to all the elements within it. Some of it is actually not reading carefully enough; for the Atkins event Dhanya reported over a third of the participants didn't complete the registration form correctly and in many cases sent it to email addresses other than that specified on the form (and that does not require any detailed signaling knowledge!).
It looks like we have a good number of tutors available on the Saturday, so the re is certainly the option to offer quite a range of stuff for participants to choose between. One of the tasks I need to do as soon as I can find the time is put forward a proposal for timetable and I'll certainly bear that in mind. I did give such a presentation on the morning of the mod1/7 event; to ring the changes would you like to lead on such at the Signet event?
The bulk of the mod1/7 event was taken up by David (mod1) and me (mod 7) leading group discussions of various questions and we did try to emphasise throughout; some of the same students will be at Derby but in general the participants will be different and yes it is well worth repeating and demonstrating almost ad nausiam. The mod 5 coverage at Signet has generally been more focused on demonstrating of equipment mainly for people who are not intending to sit the exam in the following October; hopefully this year we will be able to split into enough small groups that we can offer more in the way of written question attempts at mod 5 as well as mod 3; however as you imply there is quite a lot of "common mode" in the failures for the different modules.
PJW