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Posted By The toecap
I just did the construction cert' on Friday and one of the questions made reference to HSG 65 , Electricity at work, Safe working practices. Can you spot the mistake?. Yes it should read HSG 85. Do i get points for pointing this out? Probably not. I new HSG 65 was the effective management of safety. Why dont Nebosh read the questions first and ask the question that they intend and not what they would like.
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Posted By Alan Haynes
Their response would surely be
"Ve ask der qvestions!'
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Posted By Jimmy R
Alan,
As A person of German heritage I was wondering why suggesting Nebosh would answer with a German twang would make any difference...so why suggest it.
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Posted By The toecap
How do you know it's meant to be German
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Posted By GSP
Can Mr Political Correctness please step off the soap box
Thankyou
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Posted By IOSH Moderator
Hi all
Don't forget that humour is often at the expense of someone, and can easily offend, particularly in an international forum. Please be careful and considerate of others!
As for the exam paper - a simple typographical error I should think. Proof reading is very difficult - you tend to read what you think something should say rather than what it actually says.
Jane
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Posted By David S Burt
Are you sure is was a mistake perhaps it should have been HSG65? Just a thought.
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Posted By mark limon
Im English of Irish catholic,french protestant and asian descent(Im not kidding a proper mongrel)so you will have to be careful with your comments to me,or begorrah ,sacre bleu I might get offended :-),Mark
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Posted By Peter Haughey
I did the exam on Friday as well - definitely said HSG65 - was definitely wrong. Do you think we can all be kind and forgive them the mistake? Then, if there's any justice, they might be as tolerant of my mistakes on the exam....
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Posted By ITK CMIOSH
Would NEBOSH give you marks if they wanted HSG65 and you put HSG85....course they would...
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Posted By Stephen D. Clarke
Shouldn't it have been HSG 107 for maintenance of portable electrical equipment.
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Posted By Lilian McCartney
In thier NEBOSH defence,
sometimes when you have written something you're too close to it and things can go past without noticing.
When I mark papers I look for more than doc numbers and good spelling/grammar.
I remember (but only just, cos it was a very long time ago) that i oculdn't remember the name of the case law I was using in my answer and put a few names down - just to be sure. I did get the details of the case correct, though. I did pass the law module of the diploma so couldn't have been penalised that much.
P.S. I'm much worse with names and dates now!
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Posted By Edward Shyer
Hi Lilian,
Just a quick query to your response. Could you please tell me if Spelling and Grammar are taken into account within the marking scheme for NEBOSH exams at all levels.
Regards
Ted
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Posted By Teresa Budworth
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I can confirm that imaginative spelling and grammer are not a barrier to awarding marks.
We are sorry about the error on the paper. As was previously suggested, it was a typo not picked up, because you tend to see what you believe to be there... Gosh, I can feel a question about "perception" coming to me.
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Posted By The toecap
I answered the question begining with, 'I believe that HSG 65 isnot the safe use of portable electrical euipment'.
Will i get extra marks for this or classed as a smart alec. and get marked down
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Posted By Lilian McCartney
As Teresa says spelling and grammar doesn't get good or bad marks.
Very bad handwriting is a problem but I must say I always managed to eventually read them and didn't mark down for that (I tried to remember what it is like doing exams)
For NEBOSH you used to get (and probably is the same now) a marking schedule and what gets marks on/off.
The most difficult thing I found was when I knew what they were meaning but that wasn't what they had written and couldn't give marks for it.
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Posted By Teresa Budworth
As Lilian says, examiners work to a marking scheme that is produced at the same time as the question paper and is then discussed and revised by the examiners after they have marked a sample of scripts (those scripts are then re-marked to the revised or "standardised" marking scheme.) The purpose of this process is to ensure that any information included in answers which is reasonable in response to the question gets credit.
We never have negative marking - that is we never deduct marks for putting wrong information, (or being a smart alex!) but only award marks where the answer is correct.
Sometimes as Lilian says, the candidate may well know the answer, but hasn't put down enough detail to get all of the marks and that is frustrating because you can't mark what isn't there.
Good luck with your results
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Posted By Dave Sparrow
Well we must be sad discussing this! However, just to say that proof readers actually read backwards (yup! start at the end and work to the front) as a way of avoiding the "what we expect to see" problem as well as reading it the normal way.
Hmmm.................
maybe a NEBOSH hidden look at "competence"?
Keep it light or you'll all sound like H&S prctitioners LOL
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