What people think is required to sit and pass the exam

[joew3103]

Everyone,

I am curious for people's opinion on the following two questions. Please be honest and as blunt as you like. I hope this feedback can be passed back to the IRSE.

1) How much and what experience do people believe is required to sit the exam?

2) What is the primary reason for sitting the exam?

3) Is the level of feedback sufficient?

Thanks

If a candidate gets a NM they can request info from the IRSE and they will be told the  F/NM/P/C/D rating of each of the individual questions of the paper- I feel that is probably sufficient.  In reality I believe that only a minority of those entitled to this actually do so.

There was an experiment some years ago when it was module 1 that had very poor results for NM feedback for that module to be sent out to all and this was quite a lot more detailed- a tick sheet of generic reasons why the answer was judged unsatisfactory (i.e. not looking at the specific of the question but whether time was spent in the wrong proportions, whether what was written was not actually answering what had been asked, the omission of a diagram when one had been explicitly requested etc etc.)  The IRSE then sent out a follow-up questionnaire to all recipients asking if it had been useful and how it might be improved- they did not get a single reply.  Hence they didn't do it again; can't blame them if all that time and effort to produce was not appreciated enough by anyone for whom it was done to bother to send a quick email.

Hi Peter,

You mention here about getting feedback if you achieve a near miss. How do you go about requesting this feedback to see what the ratings were?

Thanks,

Joe