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We decided at the Brisbane Study Group to make an individual attempt at the 2005 paper under exam conditions.
I gave myself 10 minutes of reading time and then attempted to answer the paper in 1 hour. (20 minutes per question)
I did questions 3, 4 and 6.
Thanks for your help.
Hitesh P
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I thought initially that this was the best of your three 20 minute answers; you have given me comfortably two pages of A4 so that looks like as much as is likely to be possible. Although I am struggling to read some words I think this is more of a consequence of the pdf fuzziness than the original.
Given the accelerated timescales then part 1 is adequate, although a description that showed a little more understanding then "system failure" would have been better. Say 2/3
Part 2. Really only gave me 3 items so perhaps 3/5
Part 3. Ok as far as it went but a little brief; didn't really say anything about how it should be controlled and that was specifically asked. No mention in this or previous section of the cost to set against the benefit but I'll assume that is intentional as you have read ahead and are reserving that until the end. 2.5/5 I think
Part 4. There were 7 marks available but in away you gave me less than for part 3; that which was there was good although brief. Gut feel is 3.5/7
Part 5. It was a good point to include re the social impact of the delays, but should have related this nore directly to cost- do you mean the policing of the crowds that are stranded on the platforms, the loss of productive working time to the local economy, the loss of future business to the rail operator due to perceptions that it is not a good way to travel in future?
Should probably have said a bit more of the costs of not having a degraded mode and that would need to entail both the main systems reliability re service affecting failure and the Mean time To Repair- a cross reference back to part2 would have helped. I think something like 3/5 again.
Hence I feel that this is the sort of attempt that you should be making at all your chosen questions and if you achieve this then you'll be a solid Pass I think. I don't think anyone has much idea of what is realistically achievable in 20 minutes, but I think that this is the sort of answer that the examiners will be hoping for and I think if you prodcuced another 2 like this then a Pass is assured and just the possibility of a Credit. This seems a good standard to set yourself; a measure of contingency if things don't go as well as they might on the day then you'll still get through...... and on Module 1 recently that is something to be proud of.
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We decided at the Brisbane Study Group to make an individual attempt at the 2005 paper under exam conditions.
I gave myself 10 minutes of reading time and then attempted to answer the paper in 1 hour. (20 minutes per question)
I did questions 3, 4 and 6.
Thanks for your help.
Hitesh P
[/quote]
I thought initially that this was the best of your three 20 minute answers; you have given me comfortably two pages of A4 so that looks like as much as is likely to be possible. Although I am struggling to read some words I think this is more of a consequence of the pdf fuzziness than the original.
Given the accelerated timescales then part 1 is adequate, although a description that showed a little more understanding then "system failure" would have been better. Say 2/3
Part 2. Really only gave me 3 items so perhaps 3/5
Part 3. Ok as far as it went but a little brief; didn't really say anything about how it should be controlled and that was specifically asked. No mention in this or previous section of the cost to set against the benefit but I'll assume that is intentional as you have read ahead and are reserving that until the end. 2.5/5 I think
Part 4. There were 7 marks available but in away you gave me less than for part 3; that which was there was good although brief. Gut feel is 3.5/7
Part 5. It was a good point to include re the social impact of the delays, but should have related this nore directly to cost- do you mean the policing of the crowds that are stranded on the platforms, the loss of productive working time to the local economy, the loss of future business to the rail operator due to perceptions that it is not a good way to travel in future?
Should probably have said a bit more of the costs of not having a degraded mode and that would need to entail both the main systems reliability re service affecting failure and the Mean time To Repair- a cross reference back to part2 would have helped. I think something like 3/5 again.
Hence I feel that this is the sort of attempt that you should be making at all your chosen questions and if you achieve this then you'll be a solid Pass I think. I don't think anyone has much idea of what is realistically achievable in 20 minutes, but I think that this is the sort of answer that the examiners will be hoping for and I think if you prodcuced another 2 like this then a Pass is assured and just the possibility of a Credit. This seems a good standard to set yourself; a measure of contingency if things don't go as well as they might on the day then you'll still get through...... and on Module 1 recently that is something to be proud of.
PJW