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22-12-2008, 07:20 PM
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Without betraying any confidences, the results that I have been made aware of so far are:
Person A: Pass 2, Pass 3, Credit 5 [took 3 papers]
Person B: Pass 3 [took 1 paper]
Person C: Pass 1 [took 1 paper I think]
Person D: Near Miss 1 [took 1 paper]
Person E: Fail 1 [took 1 paper I think]
Person F: Near Miss 2, Near Miss 3 [took 2 papers I think]
Person G: Pass 3 [took 1 paper]
Far too small a sample to be statistically significant I know, but whereas A-C and G have posted (rather than just viewed) on this website, D, E & F have not....
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Near Miss?
A NM is obviously disappointing; so near yet so far!
However look at it positively; you nearly did it - you must have got some 45% and would only have needed 50% to pass. It would only have taken a very few more marks to have got you over the threshold (I reckon that if a base score is 48 or 49 the examiners really do try to be that little more generous just to tip over the knife edge).
Don't forget that a NM qualifies you to receive some sort of feedback from the IRSE. To be honest it probably won't be a huge help, as all that tends to happen is that you'll get the "grade" separately for each question attempted; if one is a "F" then you don't know whether you got 5% or 40%; simiarly a "P" may be just 50% or something quite a bit better. However the feedback offered last year for module 1 was certainly far more helpful, just don't expect an individual critique of your answer; that is not the examiners job. [However there is nothing to stop you attempting the question afresh and posting it on this website to get some more directed feedback.]
Perhaps the NM feedback won't tell you much more than you already know if you perhaps you managed your time badly and spent too long on one answer at expense of others, but do ask for it if it doesn't come to you automatically- anything you glean could be useful for next year's attempt.
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Hi Peter,
I'm going to post my results up as there seems to be a reluctance to share, interesting that I can have the near miss result reviewed, I must ask for that. However I answered 3 questions instead of 2 so I didn't spend the time I should have on each. I also don't know how the Examiners treated my mistake.
1. Near miss
2. Pass
3. Pass
5. Pass
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Hi, I thought I would post my results also.
I sat Module 2 and 3 this year and passed both of these. This was with a few mistakes made in the exam. I missed out part B of one question in Module 3 which was worth 7 marks. This was due to lack of concentration probably.
In module 2, I thought everything was going well and that I might finish a complete layout in the time. I was doing my route tables and got them completed with about 5 mins left so I looked over my layout and realised that I had no track circuits in at all. I managed to get TC for 80% of the main line and the branch line that required them (Had token block section). I doubt I got all the TC's in the right place, especially around S&C but at least I got a lot of it done in that time. I probably lost 5% or so for that.
