Study Pack

[ericyang_thx]

Does study pack cover all items in reading list?

The Study Pack is now a bit of an outdated name which has its ancestory in the days that a student could purchase a "pack"of physical paper copies of relevant documents.

For many years the formal name is "Study Guide" (although I accept that colloquially the old name is often perpetuated). These new ones will, I am sure, be covering all elements of the SYLLABUS.  It is an overview of how a student should interpret the items on the syllabus and give some discussion, examples and activities to help a student prepare for the exam.  They are certainly not a "text book" containing all you need to know for the exam.  Perhaps the old Mod 2 Study Pack that I originally produced went a long way down that road, but that is why the new one has been produced to be in line with those for other modules.

The READING LIST gives a range of supporting documents that it is recommended that a student studies in order to gain a wider and deeper understanding of the topics covered that relate to one or more topics which are in the syllabus for that module.
The Study Guide will point to such sources as suggested further reading.  These won't have been written with the IRSE exam specifically in mind and may not always even be specifically rail industry related, but there will always be some relevance that can give further insight in more detail to one or more elements. 

Hence if your question meant to ask: do I need to look wider than just the actual contents of the Study Guide? 
then the answer must be "probably".  
It does of course depend upon what you already know.  
If you work through the Study Guide and then feel that 
it was a good refresher but you didn't actually learn anything new, 
you had no difficulty in undertaking the activities and 
you could provide examples to "put flesh on the bones" of what the guide covered at high level, 
then you seem to have enough background knowledge and experience that extending your reading may not be essential and exam preparation can then move on to the phase of writing answers to past paper questions.  

If however the Study Guide alludes to things with which you are not already familiar, then that is a hint that you ought to expand your knowledge base and therefore the Reading List is likely to be a good source of suggestions for you to explore further.

Thank you for your reply.

After I studied IRSE "Study Guide for Module 2", there are some "Recommended reading" which refer to "Student Resource Study Pack" mention in a Module 2 Reading list.

Now, I just feel like that I have to finish a puzzle but those pieces are not in a same box, they scattered everywhere...

Is it a better practice that I should be a IRSE paid member as soon as possible to gather more information from the same source (e.g. Exam model answer)?