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My assessor last year said it was about time I took the 17th. I'd managed to avoid it for about 3 years which I thought was pretty good going.

Decided to do the exam only as I just couldn't get my head around paying £400 for a course to learn how to read BS7671. Turned up 15 minutes early only to be told I was 15 minutes late (their fault...grrr!!).

Got 80% which I was fairly pleased with although I'd been getting 90% in the mocks, the questions seemed just a little more obscure than in the mock exams. Still, it's a pass, the assessor will be mollified!

All the others there passed, noone got 100% and one person got 60%. They all finished 15 mins earlier than me and got noisy, I politely told them off, they looked surprised, then laughed, then went quiet :smiley2:

No real point to this post, just passing a little time.
 
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Well dome mate, in all honesty though it should be 100% pass rate, sadly for some it isn't
 
You defo did the right thing just doing the exam. Bloody boring course from what I recall. I got 91 or 94% I think when I did the 17th. I lost 3% on a question about definitions, which is terrible really as the definitions are probably the easiest questions. In mitigation it was the night of the European cup final (man u vs Chelsea) and I wanted to get home pronto!

PS Well done Happy!
 
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Me too a couple of years back, time served and in his twenties. For single phase voltage he ticked 240v.:iamwithstupid:

Which is pretty much what it actually is despite all the EU harmonisation!

So in my book he was right!
 
Well done for passing and well done for not spending £400 on a course that most people do not need.
 
I remember a question from the 16th exam, for which I have never been able to find the answer in the book.
Start up current for fluorescent light fittings is 1.5 X, 1.8 X or 2.3 X running current.
 
I remember a question from the 16th exam, for which I have never been able to find the answer in the book.
Start up current for fluorescent light fittings is 1.5 X, 1.8 X or 2.3 X running current.

I got taught to use a 1.8 multiplier when calculating FLC for discharge lighting circuits so I would have gone for that.
 
Ditto, I did the course, which consisted of the trainer reading quickly through each chapter and then handing out mock questions. If a student got a question wrong, we were directed to the correct reg for the answer. Hardly instructional.
 

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