07-10-2014, 02:15 PM
I took the M3 exam this year and straight from the off, I was somewhat suprised that this year there was no explicit question on ATO or ATP in comparison to other years. I remember attending the Exam Review back in Feb and one bit of feedback posed to the Mod3 examiner was that recently Mod3 has contained many questions which relate to newer type of systems that everyone may not have had experience of working with - maybe the examiner has taken this point onboard and revisited the amount of theory questions that relate to new and novel systems that may not be very well practised around the world!
I answered 3 theory questions on Route Release, Inputs to Automatic Route Setting and Temporary Speed Restrictions relating to engineering works. Not sure if my answers were widespread enough and covered the whole system - i think i was too focussed on specific points and went of on a tangent quite freqently - so overall not expecting a Pass as I did not prepare very well this year.
I was tempted by the Level crossing question but then i saw the bit in the question which required you to discuss why the level crossing described may have been chosen and not other types - and i do not have enough knowledge of all the types of level crossings and how they work so i played it safe.
Anyway - one thing i tried to do with this exam is read every single bit of the question and Mod 3 questions always usually have abit of a scene setting part at the beginning of the question which is there for a reason so i tried to refer my answer back to the specific example they were talking about.
Will have to wait and see what happens but I'm not very confident on this one....
I answered 3 theory questions on Route Release, Inputs to Automatic Route Setting and Temporary Speed Restrictions relating to engineering works. Not sure if my answers were widespread enough and covered the whole system - i think i was too focussed on specific points and went of on a tangent quite freqently - so overall not expecting a Pass as I did not prepare very well this year.
I was tempted by the Level crossing question but then i saw the bit in the question which required you to discuss why the level crossing described may have been chosen and not other types - and i do not have enough knowledge of all the types of level crossings and how they work so i played it safe.
Anyway - one thing i tried to do with this exam is read every single bit of the question and Mod 3 questions always usually have abit of a scene setting part at the beginning of the question which is there for a reason so i tried to refer my answer back to the specific example they were talking about.
Will have to wait and see what happens but I'm not very confident on this one....