razpag

Cheers singlerider ............... what a good site this is for info !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hope the mods on this site dont mind, but this link has been very helpful to my lad ........

Electrical Installation Revision Page

All the best.

Cirrus

That's fine Razpag - if it helps the forum members out (especially at exam time such as now) then it can only be good.

DYCHE4230

Just off to do my final 2330 301 unit 1 multiple choice tonight KO 6pm........tell you all what its like in the morning!!!!!!!!!

razpag

20 mins too late from me Mark (its now 1820), but the best of luck buddy.

DYCHE4230

Well everyone the good news is that the 301 exam is not that bad....all I would say is that believe it or not the tricky questions are the health and safety ones....but thats only probably a couple of them and its really not worth reading the whole H+S unit just to get a couple of extra marks........

I'm all done now, 17th edition update on the 24th June, then relax for the rest of the summer and finally 2392 in sept....don't know what i'll do with myself on tues and thurs evenings now???

MrSkipsey

I spose Big Brother 9 will have alot to answer for this summer!

Barking college - C&G 2330 Level 2. Finish in July 2008.

razpag

Congratulations Mark, nice one.
I've just finished another round of studying with mi' lad, and am encouraged to read your views about it not being too hard.
There is so much to learn its hard knowing where to concentrate your efforts. Would you be so kind enough as to give us a few examples of the questions you faced (if you can remember), or the main areas of revision please.
Cheers in anticipation.

Cirrus

Well done Mark. I sit my 301 a week tomorrow and the turors are trying to put the wind up us. The questions we are sitting for revision purposes are really heavily biased towards motors and calculations. It's starting to worry me a little as I have breezed the last 3 years and this exam has me on edge and I don't like it - not one little bit (control freak you see)

tuckermot

Hi
301
Know your motors ( types ) and your starters also had 2or 3 wiring diagrams of motors sat my 301 in mid april 08
Rich

DYCHE4230

Calculations...I had one! it was a simple question , just had to find the impedance given a resistive value and an inductive reactance and capacitive reactance, just very simple pythagoras. didn't even need a scientific calculator. Motor questions were very basic, the usual suspects 3 phase starting of small motors, how to adjust speed on a wound rotor motor, what should you do to a variable resistor in a dc shunt motor to increase speed.
electronics had the standard peak inverse question in, plus the light /photo type question.

there were a few tricky questions but the easy ones make up for these!!! I would say about 10 of my questions were identical to the sample papers that are floating around...

HONESTLY if you do as many multiple choice papers that you can get your hands on you'll breeze it......The swindon massive website (There is a link a few replies up) is more in depth than you need..if you just do the 301 mock paper on this website that will give you an indication of what you will be up against.


I was a little upset with the standard, cos I put a lot of work into my revision and people passed who I know were just cruising.....we had 1 failure out of 17 and he only failed by one question!!!!!!!

I'm not blowing my own trumpet but I was in the exam 13 minutes and got a distinction. I'm just giving you an indication. My advice would be DON'T WORRY...

Anyone who is on this site is obviously putting in the correct amount of effort and in my opinion you should n't struggle.......

Our lecturer gave us some old 2360 papers to do...now they were a lot scarier!!!!

the 2 health and safety ones that caught me out went something like this.

1, a mandatory sign is

a blue circle

b green rectangle

c blue rectangle

d red circle

I KNOW THE SIGN WAS BLUE JUST NOT THE SHAPE

2 if an accident occurs, photographic or video evidence is

a inadmissable

b essential evidence

c supportive evidence

d some other ridiculous answer

REALLY SHOULD THEY REALLY BE ASKING US QUESTIONS ABOUT PHOTOS!!!!!!!!

3 questions i had that were identical to online papers


Speed control of a 3 phase wound rotor motor is achieved by varying the
A Resistance in rotor winding
B Voltage applied to the stator
C Rotor winding inductance
D The number of stator windings


A capacitor start and run single phase induction motor runs as
A Quad phase motor
B Single phase motor
C Two phase motor
D Three phase motor

The role of a company's safety representative is to: a represent employees on safety matters.b
be responsible for writing risk assessments.c represent the company at HSE meetings.d ensure safety facilities are available


Cirrus, i'm sure your lecturers are doin it in your best interests but from what I see of your posts on this forum you know what ya talking about and you have nothing to worry about..... there are obviously motor questions and I was probably just lucky(or unlucky depends how you look at it) on the amount of calcs I got..but it really is just basic stuff as long as you've done the groundwork you pass and pass easily...Don't lose sleep over it, I'm no genius and I passed ...



Ps I can see your a control freak from your sign on image!!!!!!