Isn't the exam supposed to be a specialist technical subject? One thing that strook me was just how applied the whole paper was. The tutor said that the exam was becoming more applied in nature but still didn't expect a paper like that. I was expecting that there would be at least a few marks on a straight forward bookwork question.
Maybe it's my fault in a way but when I started reading that paper, panic quickly set in and I took a while to get going. I think Actpass is spot on about getting lost if you tracked the past papers and assignments etc as a guide when doing the exam preparation.
If that's the standard going forward, maybe they should switch it to an SA? It's one thing to spend a while going over course material to remember it and understand it - it's another thing altogether to be able apply it under time pressure imo. There is so much learning in ST9 as it is for an ST.
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