what do you think?, personally I would not have passed if they weren't, its like my work mate said - you see a question and think..."oh shit i cant remember that, i done that 5 years ago!!!", whereas now you can just look up the answer in the building code/standards!, although all the questions answers arn't fully in the code/standards, otherwise we would all get close to 100% wouldnt we??? 



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hi guys, knowing the codes and having the practical ability to do job are two compleately different things,cheers

If i remember correctly the OAG report stated that the exam pass rate was not good enough meaning the exam was too hard or people wernt being taught correctly...it also said(from memory) that the pgdb should be aming for a 60-70% pass rate so because the ITO is in a shambles at the moment and people arnt rearly being taught correctly they(pgdb) have far lowered there standards to come in to line with the teaching which makes me understand why there pushing so hard for cpd because they know they have set there standards too low to enable poorly trained apprentises to pass...i learnt stuff all from tech most of what i know was learnt from reading and trying to interpert the codes and my employer of course talking to the tutors helped but they were mostly intrested in acessing us...for example i was set loose in the sheet metal shop having NEVER used and sheet tooling and expected to build a damb near perfect air ducting system...what a joke!...it all starts from the bottom bad teaching method(not teachers but bad method) will bring bad pass rates and that is what we have seen in the pass few years untill the pgdb was forced to dumb down the exams to come into line with the OAG...haha food for thought...by the way im a conspricary therorist lol.