I happened to meet the two Module 2 examiners on Saturday, one of whom has finished marking the papers and the other is part way through.
Both separately spoke to me about the number of candidates who failed to read, or at least correctly comprehend, the question wording.
In particular this referred to the stopping headway calculation.
It seems (I have yet to see a copy of the question paper) that the question asked related to the minimum headway between one train leaving the mainline to enter a branchline and the following train continuing on the mainline. However what they got was a significant number of answers to a succession of stopping trains at the station, probably because that was the scenario for which candidate had rehearsed an answer methodology. These answers would gained few, if any, marks and may have made the markers less charitable when considering other parts of the student's answers that seemed a little dodgy.......
Both separately spoke to me about the number of candidates who failed to read, or at least correctly comprehend, the question wording.
In particular this referred to the stopping headway calculation.
It seems (I have yet to see a copy of the question paper) that the question asked related to the minimum headway between one train leaving the mainline to enter a branchline and the following train continuing on the mainline. However what they got was a significant number of answers to a succession of stopping trains at the station, probably because that was the scenario for which candidate had rehearsed an answer methodology. These answers would gained few, if any, marks and may have made the markers less charitable when considering other parts of the student's answers that seemed a little dodgy.......
PJW