I hate exams!!

I love exams - I get paid to mark them!!!!!

They're pretty hard to like. (I was pissed when I sat my finals!) Good luck though!!

Shouldn’t you be revising?

I took my first commercial pilot exam, flying instructor exam and civilian instrument flying exam about 30 years ago. Each exam took a full day (the CPL written exams took several days) and covered just about every aspect of what I had learnt during the previous year. The exams comprised flying tests, demonstration of teaching ability in the air and on the ground, plus written theory tests.

Every two years, I have to pass similar practical and written exams, updated to incorporate latest techniques and best practice. Every six months I have to pass the same medical exam I passed 30 years ago.

I naturally assume that all doctors, lawyers, accountants, professional engineers, teachers, pharmacists etc likewise have to retake and pass their intial qualifications (suitably up-dated) every two years or so.......

How many would be confident of success tomorrow ????

Cheers

Don

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I naturally assume that all doctors, lawyers, accountants, professional engineers, teachers, pharmacists etc likewise have to retake and pass their intial qualifications (suitably up-dated) every two years or so.......

Don, speaking as a pharmacist we certainly have to keep up to date but it is not compulsory.

With all the turnover of drugs if you don't maintain your education it is not long before you become a dinosaur...so it is a natural necessity.

I believe that most professions are over regulated when compared to the most difficult of all...being a parent, a little bit of study wink wink, no written examinations, non compulsory texts and no income!

Dave

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Originally posted by David Robert Bell:
I believe that most professions are over regulated when compared to the most difficult of all...being a parent, a little bit of study wink wink, no written examinations, non compulsory texts and no income!

I'm always bemoaning the fact that one doesn't have to qualify to breed. If one did, I think many of society's ills would be cured.

EW

The week of Master of Wine exams involves drinking

Sadly the necessity is to identify correctly the 36 wines (over three mornings), with three hours of writing each afternoon, so drinking the stuff is not terribly advisable.

I shall not be taking any more exams, thank you (although I have said that before).

Hic

Rod

Bloody exams!

Andy

If you do not like exams, do not take them.

However do not complain when all your colleagues become your boss and you spend your time making their tea and running errands for them.

It is your call so get on with it.

Regards

Mick

PS Do not waste your time on this forum until you make Inspector.

Eee Mick,

profound words indeed.

you are closer than you think!

andy c!

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Originally posted by Earwicker:

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Originally posted by David Robert Bell:
I believe that most professions are over regulated when compared to the most difficult of all...being a parent, a little bit of study wink wink, no written examinations, non compulsory texts and no income!

I'm always bemoaning the fact that one doesn't have to qualify to breed. If one did, I think many of society's ills would be cured.

EW

Nice one EW - what would the criteria be, and who would set it (this should set this post alight!!).

Always amazed me that you used to have to get a licence to have a dog, but not a person...

phil

Phil,

People do have a licence of sort, in Australia it's called a Birth Certificate and it's a good idea to have to one if you want to get anywhere in life....you don't need to sit for an exam... but you should hope that your parents
1. give you a good name...not something f**king whacked like Tarquin Maynard-Portly
2. spell your name correctly so you're not constantly being embarrassed for the rest of your natural life because of your father's drunken stupor down at the registry office.

I don't believe in what EW is saying...sounds a bit a snobby...education is what the whole world needs and usually exams are attached.

Dave (who will meet his next cohort of pharmacy students tonight salivating with the sadistic nature of examining them at the end of the year!)

I used to love Exams - taking them/setting them or Invigilating - and still have happy dreams about 'sitting' them.

They were all absoulute rubbish of course, if a fact of life, and I'm glad that when I did PGCE 30 years ago I chose 'continual assessment' course at Bristol. I took great delight in failing my Registered Psychiatric Nurse exam the first time, as they asked how to put out a chip-pan fire. This knowledge/skill is very useful, but possibly a lot of poor mental-health nursing is enacted by people who can a)avoid b) safely extinguish chip-pan fire.

Currently for years mental health (and other) nurses have to be of academic degree standard (by examination etc) to ensure that they cannot relate practically to the real needs of nursing.

In theory, we know all about 'grades' in UK GCSE-A-S levels ...

I wish all good luck in their exams, but as has been suggested, avoiding them like David Essex character did in 'That'll Be The Day' if you do not want/need to pass is IMO praiseworthy.