Has anyone sat the new 2394/2395 version of inspection + testing? I did the original 2391 several years ago but because it is now obsolete, I had to update it. I found a lot of the content on the new course was focused on how to ensure compliance when recording/reporting results rather than the actual process of carrying out testing + verification. A lot of time spent on requirements of Amendment 3 which you should have already gone over in detail when doing the regs update course. I wouldn't like to be doing inspection & testing for the first time + having to do this version, it's very different from when I first did mine.
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The Ghost
Yeh there is no written exam now. 4 hour practical. Two on line exams. One is multiple choice the other is effectively the written exam and you have to write the answers into the computer. So a question like; What three documents or items would an inspector require prior to conducting and EICR you would then list the items in writing. And things like draw the earth fault path on TT installation they have the bits and you have to name them and draw a line throught the EF path and so on.
The fact that the exam is closed book is very odd. The exam is more of a test of your memory rather than competence. I've been doing testing for years + I still refer to the literature for reference. I'd be lost without my Max Zs lists etc, haha..
Why is the 2391 obsolete, who told you to update it. Every year I am told by these scheme bods my 2400 is no longer applicable and I should "update", I just stare at them and say absolutely nothing they soon move on.
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Leesparkykent
Was about to say the same thing @westward10....I have the 2391. Don't understand why the op would waste time and money on a qualification that is regarded as the same by employers, JIB and so on
I wasn't able to do an Amm 3 update for the 2391 because the 2394/2395 has replaced it. There may be training providers that still do it but the one we use don't.
There was 4 of us that were put on the course, 2 of them hadn't done the 2391 before so maybe that's the reason I ended up having to do that one.
The refresher/update is a company requirement, I think the likes of NIC-EIC only require 2382-15 or similar to prove competence.
I think in some cases these days the NICEIC deem holding a screwdriver the right way around as being competent.
Before I worked for AI the only updates I ever did was a 1 day regs update course. They have an odd way of doing things, they put me through 10 compex units which is more than is needed to work offshore, bonkers.
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Wilko
Sorry in advance, as I don't mean to offend the Nice Guys, but in some cases the safest way of holding the driver would be pointy end inwards. Then no harm would come to others ...
Depends which route you go. If you go the 'easy' route, ie. EAL, then there is no written exam. If you do the C&G version then there is a written exam still.
The colleges in my area, 1 of which I served my apprenticeship only offers the EAL now, the tutor said that there is very little difference between the C&G and the EAL.
I'm hoping to do mine in May and June. Providing it doesn't get cancelled due to low numbers again.
I'm hoping to do mine in May and June. Providing it doesn't get cancelled due to low numbers again.
That's what it was like for mine. For the C&G route.
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The Ghost
As I say I did the C&G, the written exam was online though. Bit puzzled was your written exam at a desk with pen and paper or online. Pretty much the same as you have to write online with the keyboard and so on. As I understand it that is what C&G are doing now, as was my experience. And the result was pretty fast as well.
Doesn't matter where you sit the exam, the papers are the same i.e. C&G produce the exam papers and distribute to all UK exam centres.
I did the 2394/5 about three years ago ( I already had the 2391 but wanted to refresh my thinking....I know, sad!).
Then it was on line multiple choice, two written exams ( closed book), practical testing exam.
I've since read various pieces saying the exams were changing, but I don't know what, if anything has changed. The C&G web site used to offer " examiner's comments" after each exam diet; worth a look to see what's there now.
I did the 2394/5 about three years ago ( I already had the 2391 but wanted to refresh my thinking....I know, sad!).
Then it was on line multiple choice, two written exams ( closed book), practical testing exam.
I've since read various pieces saying the exams were changing, but I don't know what, if anything has changed. The C&G web site used to offer " examiner's comments" after each exam diet; worth a look to see what's there now.
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