Study Pack

[PJW]

Hello all

I am currently studying for module 2 using the study guide provided on the IRSE website in pdf format. However, I cannot get the hyperlinks to work which is extremely irritating. Does anyone know how to either:

a) Enable the hyperlinks in a pdf document?
b) Attain a copy of the study guide in Word format?

Thanks

Ahmed

Hyperlinks in pdfs are often a pain in my experience. Basic pdf makers do to handle them well and it looks as though our friends in the offics have used one that does not replciate them well. I suggest that you ring the office and point it out to them because it is a bit difficult to navigate without them, PJW having gone to all of the effort of doing the hyperlinks in the original.

Peter

a)  I think Peter has answered this better than I can

b) I can email you the Word version.   I am just in process of incorporating some updates that I have been asked to do by end of month, so ought to be able to do at the weekend.  Remind me next week if I haven't

[TheRailwaySignaller]

a)  I think Peter has answered this better than I can

b) I can email you the Word version.   I am just in process of incorporating some updates that I have been asked to do by end of month, so ought to be able to do at the weekend.  Remind me next week if I haven't

Ok thanks a lot! So far in my perusal of the document I have come across a number of typos. Is it worth pointing them out?

[PJW]

• Miyo
  

a)  I think Peter has answered this better than I can

b) I can email you the Word version.   I am just in process of incorporating some updates that I have been asked to do by end of month, so ought to be able to do at the weekend.  Remind me next week if I haven't

Ok thanks a lot! So far in my perusal of the document I have come across a number of typos. Is it worth pointing them out?

Very happy to have errors pointed out. However I think that you may have access to a 2009 version (IRSE lost version control!) and have been several issues since. Hence best to feedback re the new version I will send!

[TheRailwaySignaller]

Very happy to have errors pointed out. However I think that you may have access to a 2009 version (IRSE lost version control!) and have been several issues since. Hence best to feedback re the new version I will send!

Have the updates been carried out? If so, could you kindly send me a copy of study guide? Thanks a lot!

Edit:

One further question:  I have read on this forum that the IRSE has a list of recommended reading. However, I cannot locate it on the IRSE website. Does anyone know were it can be found? Thanks.

[Peter]

One further question:  I have read on this forum that the IRSE has a list of recommended reading. However, I cannot locate it on the IRSE website. Does anyone know were it can be found? Thanks.

Hmmm, you appear to be right. I cannot find it either. I am sure it used to be on the page with the regulations and other details. Let's see what the office says....

[Peter]

One further question:  I have read on this forum that the IRSE has a list of recommended reading. However, I cannot locate it on the IRSE website. Does anyone know were it can be found? Thanks.

Hmmm, you appear to be right. I cannot find it either. I am sure it used to be on the page with the regulations and other details. Let's see what the office says....

OK, the best information I can get when I asked for a link to the reading list is that if you log in to the IRSE website you are then "in the members area and the exam material is available there". From this, I take it that when you are logged in, and you go to the "Membership" item on the menu and select "Exam Support Material" (note that the drop down elements on the menu on the IRSE website do not work if you are using Safari as your browser), this gives you access to the study packs and for each module, there is some recommended reading.

I have seen a document somewhere that does refer to finding "a reading list" on www.irse.org, but think this is out of date in the sense that it is not in one list anymore. In another sense the statement is out of date in merely referring one to a website rather than the better practice of guiding one to the item on the website!

[dorothy.pipet]

One further question:  I have read on this forum that the IRSE has a list of recommended reading. However, I cannot locate it on the IRSE website. Does anyone know were it can be found? Thanks.

Hmmm, you appear to be right. I cannot find it either. I am sure it used to be on the page with the regulations and other details. Let's see what the office says....

OK, the best information I can get when I asked for a link to the reading list is that if you log in to the IRSE website you are then "in the members area and the exam material is available there". From this, I take it that when you are logged in, and you go to the "Membership" item on the menu and select "Exam Support Material" (note that the drop down elements on the menu on the IRSE website do not work if you are using Safari as your browser), this gives you access to the study packs and for each module, there is some recommended reading.

I have seen a document somewhere that does refer to finding "a reading list" on www.irse.org, but think this is out of date in the sense that it is not in one list anymore. In another sense the statement is out of date in merely referring one to a website rather than the better practice of guiding one to the item on the website!

I'm sure I have a reading list from previous years. If anyone feels it might be helpful I can post it here. The problem at the moment is I am away from home following a bereavement so if someone reminds me (PM) in a week or so II'll do it. Got plenty to sort W. R. T bereavement so I will not remember without help.

[dorothy.pipet]

One further question:  I have read on this forum that the IRSE has a list of recommended reading. However, I cannot locate it on the IRSE website. Does anyone know were it can be found? Thanks.

Hmmm, you appear to be right. I cannot find it either. I am sure it used to be on the page with the regulations and other details. Let's see what the office says....

OK, the best information I can get when I asked for a link to the reading list is that if you log in to the IRSE website you are then "in the members area and the exam material is available there". From this, I take it that when you are logged in, and you go to the "Membership" item on the menu and select "Exam Support Material" (note that the drop down elements on the menu on the IRSE website do not work if you are using Safari as your browser), this gives you access to the study packs and for each module, there is some recommended reading.

I have seen a document somewhere that does refer to finding "a reading list" on www.irse.org, but think this is out of date in the sense that it is not in one list anymore. In another sense the statement is out of date in merely referring one to a website rather than the better practice of guiding one to the item on the website!

I'm sure I have a reading list from previous  years. If anyone feels it might be helpful I can post it here. The problem at the moment is I am away from home following a bereavement so if someone reminds me (PM) in a week or so II'll do it. Got plenty to sort W. R. T  bereavement so I will not remember without help.

Attached is a reading list I edited out of materials on the last Study DVD published. It's a few years old, and the reading list was not exactly up-to-date then. Hope it helps anyway.

[greatnessjason]

One further question:  I have read on this forum that the IRSE has a list of recommended reading. However, I cannot locate it on the IRSE website. Does anyone know were it can be found? Thanks.

Hmmm, you appear to be right. I cannot find it either. I am sure it used to be on the page with the regulations and other details. Let's see what the office says....

OK, the best information I can get when I asked for a link to the reading list is that if you log in to the IRSE website you are then "in the members area and the exam material is available there". From this, I take it that when you are logged in, and you go to the "Membership" item on the menu and select "Exam Support Material" (note that the drop down elements on the menu on the IRSE website do not work if you are using Safari as your browser), this gives you access to the study packs and for each module, there is some recommended reading.

I have seen a document somewhere that does refer to finding "a reading list" on www.irse.org, but think this is out of date in the sense that it is not in one list anymore. In another sense the statement is out of date in merely referring one to a website rather than the better practice of guiding one to the item on the website!

I'm sure I have a reading list from previous  years. If anyone feels it might be helpful I can post it here. The problem at the moment is I am away from home following a bereavement so if someone reminds me (PM) in a week or so II'll do it. Got plenty to sort W. R. T  bereavement so I will not remember without help.

Attached is a reading list I edited out of materials on the last Study DVD published. It's a few years old, and the reading list was not exactly up-to-date then. Hope it helps anyway.

Hi Peter, 
Can I get a copy of the study pack in word format as well? Having the same trouble of annoyingly not able to click on the hyperlinks in Pdf format.. 

Thanks very much!

[PJW]

I think the IRSE are producing a much slimmed down version of the Study Pack for 2016, more in line with those for other modules.

However for those people who would appreciate a Word version of the text of the full pack (it is not quite as fully updated throughout as I had wished, but it does at least reflect the 2015 exam and is several versions on from the one recently available from IRSE which had reverted back to the 2009 version for some reason!), you should be able to download it from this link-


https://www.dropbox.com/s/4salkvuhfwdakx....docx?dl=0

It is around 12MB- it is just the Word file and the pictures etc. embedded in it and the Appendices; it does not include the various additional files which on the original Study CD were hyperlinked from the Word document