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After 8 week of waiting me and my fellow cadets received our SQA COC exam results today. Not one of us passed both exams meaning we have to resit at a later date at our own expense. Several things irk me about this; Although we heard prior to the exams about SQA's mad marking scheme (percentages deducted for being too accurate??!!) we never get to see our papers again to see where we have gone wrong. In addition all we got in the post was a pass or fail result, no breakdown of personal section marks (although we got a general grade which isn't of much use).
The actual exams themself were laborious enough, with the past few years stability papers being especially off the wall. For example, we learned in depth at SQA prep about LCG tables, KG tables, multiple weights etc and in the exam the only calculations that we were asked for was transposing complex formulae. Something that takes up a very small area of the syllabus, and that caught almost everyone off guard. I think there needs to be a more solid and standardised criteria in what is asked, at the end of the day we already have our HNCs. The nav paper was marginally better but seemed to cram too many questions in for the amount of time available, leading everyone to rush. This is something everyone I spoke to after the exam agreed with.
There were people in those exams who had passed thier orals but were resitting these SQAs for the 2nd or 3rd time, with a system like this you know something is wrong. So just wondering what are your opinions on this matter? I can't say I'm not annoyed as me and my fellow cadets have all been quite high achievers throughout 3 years and this is a kick in the balls at the last hurdle, to compound matters like I said the resit cost has to be fronted by us as our company won't pay
The actual exams themself were laborious enough, with the past few years stability papers being especially off the wall. For example, we learned in depth at SQA prep about LCG tables, KG tables, multiple weights etc and in the exam the only calculations that we were asked for was transposing complex formulae. Something that takes up a very small area of the syllabus, and that caught almost everyone off guard. I think there needs to be a more solid and standardised criteria in what is asked, at the end of the day we already have our HNCs. The nav paper was marginally better but seemed to cram too many questions in for the amount of time available, leading everyone to rush. This is something everyone I spoke to after the exam agreed with.
There were people in those exams who had passed thier orals but were resitting these SQAs for the 2nd or 3rd time, with a system like this you know something is wrong. So just wondering what are your opinions on this matter? I can't say I'm not annoyed as me and my fellow cadets have all been quite high achievers throughout 3 years and this is a kick in the balls at the last hurdle, to compound matters like I said the resit cost has to be fronted by us as our company won't pay
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