pingram Wrote:I will be doing module 1 and 5 this year. I had alook at the 2008 papers and wish I had done them this year as there were a lot of questions I could have answered without much studying!
I completed the written questions part of module 3 and dodged the control tables. I would far rather complete signalling principles questions than control tables any day!!!!!!
Interesting. I think that the examiners find that those who do the written answers are a mixture of the better and the very worst, with the mediocre tending to do the CTs. However there is a choice because it is horses for courses. I had to do CTs and written answers as it was all one big exam in my day.
If I had to do the exam now I wouldn't do CTs because I wouldn't feel I could do in the time. I think that part of that is that because Principles testing has been my day job I look far too deeply for what the examiners are looking for in the exam, and it would not be in my nature to think "near enough is good enough" as far as CTs are concerned. I dread to think how many man days per route I expended on revising Ladbroke Grove's CTs to reinstate full functionality after SN109 accident..........
I am not sure what Paul Cheeseman's plan is for module 1, but we may well be basing the GM Rail day for module 5 on the 2008 paper, so if you feel like having a go at any of those could you post on the site via the "Answers Anonymous" route so that others don't cheat!
PJW