hey dudes,

is there anything extra I should be studying for as Im sitting my certifying exam this June?

is the past certifying exam papers enough?

going over the licencing ones helped when I studied for my licencing exams....passed them ok



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cheers....should I be reading these front to back??? I have all the legal crap and as3500 which are supplied on the day...I think they are mostly parts 1,2 and 4???

I studied and mock tested the last 5 years of the certifying exams. went through G12, G13 G4, G15. The branz guide to plumbing. AS3500 part 2 plumbing and drainage. AS3500 part 1 water services.  G1 Personal hygiene. The Doyles plumbing books. AS3500 part 4 heated water services. Guide for safety with Underground Services. My old open polytec books, which included Backflow prevention, Hot water services. Cold water services. The Health and Safety Act. Shafts and Excavations.Timber framed buildings .E1. And lots more that i have from my polytec, and studying for my regs, days.

I have spoken to the pgdb on many occasions and they stated they are happy with a 50% pass rate. 185 plumbers paid to sit the last exam. So i suppose they would be happy to pass about 93. A lot of the answers are up to interpretation, with the exception of the multi choice questions. To my knowledge, the panel who write the exam also mark it. There is no scaling. In past years if a question was incorrect or unrealistic it still stood even if no one answered it correctly. There is no set resource literature for the certifying exam. The correspondence didn't help a friend who sat the exam either. I  don't know if the pgdb exam panel set the exam to correspond with the correspondence.   Please check out the nov 2013 exam when it comes out before you start studying. There was a lot of questions that required referencing, the questions were obscure and irrelevant, they just want to see if you can reference the answers. By the time  you answered the other questions, it left stuff all time to reference these answers.      I don't know what you should study but the list above should be a good start.  best of luck.

cheers, 

the one thing I don't get is how much info do you need to cover??? I remember sitting my reg exams and there were questions in it that covered a certain part in plumbing that id never seen or heard of before, if we were given topics 6 months in advance on what to be prepared for eg: backflow, underground safety, etc wouldn't we be better off or are the exams set to test and surprise you???

also are there anyother plumbers in chch wanting to do their cert exam in june please get in contact, cheers

do they still put in the autopsy table question in, because we do them every day

cheers intergrated...that's a helpful tip...ill try it