2014 Exam Review

[PJW]

Thanks.
I'm sure it will become available. The Review was only done last night so we are behind relative to previous years.

I made some scribbles that I may find time to turn into notes over the weekend that I'll put here.  
However since we were promised the Powerpoint slides will be posted on the main IRSE site, I didn't worry about capturing everything written there, but concentrated more on what else was said.  The session was also being videod, so I would expect this to be made available on IRSE website in due course

We are in almost in June, I could not the find the exam review material on the IRSE website, can anyone point me in the right direction or provide a link where they can be down loaded?

The IRSE are never prompt I am afraid; I normally am with my unofficial notes, but this year for a variety of reasons, many of which connected with my paid employment consuming far more hours than it has any right to do, I have not yet been able to complete the write up although I had done half of it weeks ago. The weather forecast for Sunday looks poor which may make me more inclined to stay at home and complete.

 Actually there is little of significance, no changes announced re next year's exam, and really at a generic level the message from examiners the same as ever

1 Be familiar with the syllabus
2 Do your homework reading etc
3 Read the actual question- do not assume that same as last year's or regurgitate text book
4 Practice, practice, practice
5 Get feedback on your attempts
6 Use your time in exam wisely- strict time management
7 make sure really read questions carefully, choose with care and do what it says including state assumptions, provide diagram etc.
Broadly this is the message year after year

Finally, best part of a month after I had hoped to provide, are my notes of the Review of the 2014 Exam; one benefit of the wait is that I have been able to incorporate more of the statistical information than I would have been able to do purely relying on my scribbles of the slides very rapidly shown on the evening.

Unfortunately I only made sketchy notes of the Question / Answer / Discussion section at the end and think there may have been some that I did not capture; if I had been able to write up more promptly my memory may have enabled me to make these fuller but the disadvantage of the delay is that my memory of this has faded with time.

If anyone has things to correct or add to any of these recollections, please post in this thread or let me know separately.  Otherwise will just have to wait until IRSE makes the official notes and / or video available.

Probably the most important thing (other than the regular pleas about reading the questions, exam technique etc.) is that there seemed to be some pretty broad hints about what may be, and perhaps more importantly what is probably not going to be, in the exam paper of 2015.  I guess that the examiners are even now beginning to discuss those questions so at the time of the Review even they would not have given much consideration, but obviously their mind-set having just marked one year's exam is liable to be a major influence for the contents of the paper they are likely to set for this year.  Hence well worth reading and planning preparation accordingly!