June 2396 Exam

[stevey1983]

Yep you will be writing righy up to the last second, i could of easily carried on for another couple of hours writing. Keep going through old papers and learn where eveything is in the regs. Show all your working out for the calculations. The worst bit is waiting 6 weeks to find out your results. The project does take up alot of your time, i was lucky to be working nights at the time i did it so when i got up early afternoon i had a few quiet hours with no one else in the house to distract me

 

[sparky05084]

Nice to hear some replies back guys. A word of warning to anyone who is primarily a house basher, think very carefully before taking this course on. This is way beyond the scope of an average spark (yippe me) and you have to do a hell of a lot of self study and dedicate your time to research and stuff.

A mate of mine at work thinks I'm bat crazy for doing this and part of me agrees. Having said that, I intend to finish it and can only do my best.

The project is pretty ruthless if you don't come from a design background or work on commercial/industrial situations. Added to that moving house and a kid on the way makes me wonder what on earth I've got myself into. Oh well. These things are sent to try us.

 

[Paul651975]

When I did it it was a catalogue shop. Took two goes to pass the exam as just ran out of time on first effort. The project is a killer though think I spent about 120hrs on it, mind I did do all drawings in autocad. Helps if your good at excel as well for all the cable calcs as saves a lot of time.

 

[ImpededLoop]

When I did it it was a catalogue shop. Took two goes to pass the exam as just ran out of time on first effort. The project is a killer though think I spent about 120hrs on it, mind I did do all drawings in autocad. Helps if your good at excel as well for all the cable calcs as saves a lot of time.

Mine was the catalogue shop too - probably two years ago?

I spent about 100 hours on the project too and also used autocad and excel.

I really can't remember anything about the exam other than an error in the second part of the first question which C&G did admit to after it was brought to their attention after the exam. Luckily I passed it despite the problem with the first question which got us all off to a slow start!

 

[Paul651975]

Thats right was 2 years ago now. Yeah spent ages trying to figure out what I was missing. If remember correctly though there was a fair bit on street furniture or was that in the resit not sure now. Doing it in cad help speed up to cable calcs as just had to use dimension tool and not try and work it out using a scale rule.