(06-02-2017, 09:22 AM)Jerry1237 Wrote: Please read them... hereWOW, I wasn't quite expecting that.
Not so much the initial sit down but the fact that they want sponsor to sign that someone is likely to be ready to sit the exam by the end of APRIL!
Seems very early to me.
OK there is a "defer decision option" that allows postponement for a month, but even so......
I start my Study Groups early (before Christmas) and even on this basis I only work up to attempting real IRSE questions in April, so frankly it is really too early for me to say by then; I'd be staggered if anyone were likely to be in a better position than me.
So any decision would have to be based on what I thought they could probably achieve by October rather than how they were currently doing. The margin of error when asking that assessment to be made in April rather than in June as last year must be so much higher, that I fear the whole thing is going to be counter-productive.
With the exam results not likely to be out until end Feb and the likelihood of the 2016 Exam Review not until end March, then most people will hardly have begun to get stuck in by the time the end of April arrives.
The IRSE is going to have to bring the exam results back to be before Christmas; there will be people now who won't know whether or not they passed the module(s) they attempted last year and by the time they find out that they didn't it will almost be too late to attempt again this year. It is going to be a brave sponsor who finds out that their candidate didn't pass last year and within 6-8 weeks is signing in them off to have another attempt.
Wonder what made them set those deadlines?
PJW