philmarks
Well-Known Member
Re: Guesstrapulation.
When I think back 40 years to when we did these calculations for the 11+, the key thing was that you show your workings. I don't believe that any RYA examiner would penalise you if you used the arithmetic method, provided you wrote down the workings (as was done ealrier in this thread) so that any working could be checked and errors could be traced (again, as was done earlier in this thread). In any case. all workings should be checked against a rough sanity number arrived mentally (as also was done in this thread). The RYA examiners (from what I've read) appear to focus on common sense approaches to problems. I'd prefer to jot down simple arithmetic rather than try to work with a graphical solution at sea in a small boat.
Phil
Phil
When I think back 40 years to when we did these calculations for the 11+, the key thing was that you show your workings. I don't believe that any RYA examiner would penalise you if you used the arithmetic method, provided you wrote down the workings (as was done ealrier in this thread) so that any working could be checked and errors could be traced (again, as was done earlier in this thread). In any case. all workings should be checked against a rough sanity number arrived mentally (as also was done in this thread). The RYA examiners (from what I've read) appear to focus on common sense approaches to problems. I'd prefer to jot down simple arithmetic rather than try to work with a graphical solution at sea in a small boat.
Phil
Phil