Mod 1 question year?

[cmcvea]

i have put this answer together after an hour referring to a number of books, i have a long way to replicate exam conditions and such a short time to do it in!

[PJW]

i have put this answer together after an hour referring to a number of books, i have a long way to replicate exam conditions and such a short time to do it in!

Was this a Past Paper question, or a exercise from the Study Pack. I seem to recall one along these lines but have not been able to find the source and you don't descibe where it was from......anyone know?

Actually I thought this was a first class answer and really have little other comment.

It seemed to be of the right level and cover a good scope.

There is always more detail that could be given, examples given or another topic included but within the time constraint then this would have to be at the expense of something and overall may not have improved. If I were answering I might have made a little more of the establishment of the railway's Rule book, procedures, maintenance schedules in the first place and then keeping them responsive to changes in technology, environment etc that may necessitate occasional reassessment than you did, but that does depend on precisely how interpret question.
The question wording does seem a bit odd- it is reasonable to interpret "regional signal engineer" given this is IRSE Exam but could easily be "Infrastructure Manager" for all engineering disciplines or even "General Manager"- althought it does lump drivers more with passengers rather than "own staff". Hence was interested to find actual source of question in case you hadn't included all of the "context statement" that may have been within it.

However your approach when presented with a vague question re defining your assumption of the context / environment in which you were answering it was absolutely "spot-on". This can really make the difference when the examiners are presented with an answer which wasn't quite what they were expecting; they will then adjust any marking schedule that they may have accordingly to reflect that you have been clear of what you have assumed to be "within scope" ans "outside scope"; without those valuable first sentences you potentially always run the risk of your answer to be assumed to be lccking in one area or having strayed into irrelevance elsewhere. If you had failed to define initially, then it would have been your fault that the examiner marks on a basis that differs from your interpretation- you did well by setting your context clearly initially.