what was your toughest

Powerboat Instructor's Course.

The exam was ok, it was really just the course. I was a bag of broken spanners.

Even though I have thousands of hours in boats of all sorts of shapes and have done a couple of teaching courses, bringing the two together seemed impossible.
 
what was your toughest

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exam, test, assessment you have done????
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It was either the third general paper of my Oxbridge entrance exam - which was all, quite literally, Greek to me (not a language which I had ever studied) or it was trying to answer the ICC questions through a haze of cigarette smoke. :D
 
powerskipper said:
exam, test, assessment you have done????

I asked some peeps today, both have just done there YMI [yachtmaster instructor tickets} today, one said there ym exam the other said the YMI.

So for you what would have been yours.
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Definitely my Department of Transport (now MCA) Orals exams for my Class I and II Chief Engineer's Certificates of Competency, which I'm pleased to say I passed many moons ago!! Life's strange 'cos after a career in the Merchant Navy, and in the marine industry ashore, I now work for the MCA as an Engineer Surveyor, working alongside those who put me through hell during my exams!!

Cheers, Allan
 
Masters Forgein going orals, The resit was more nerve wrecking but actually a lot easier, not because i knew more but because the Examiner was more to my style.
Still don't understand the theory behind magnetic compass,and that was part of the exam.
 
1. 2nd Mate's Orals in 1966, my inquisitor was a Master Mariner in Sail (for goodness sake). The most frightening hour of my life (all 21 years of it).

2. First of my Trinity House London Pilotage exams - all oral and no mistakes allowed. Every buoy, characteristic, depth, course and distance to/from to the next buoy in the whole Thames Estuary (Swin, Barrows, Black Deep, Knob, Princes Channel and Kentish Flats), Goodwins, Ports of Dover, Ramsgate, Whitstable, Sheerness and Gravesend.

3. Final flight test in 1995 for my FAA PPL in the US after accumulating 68 hours training and written exams and all in 17 days. The sod made me do a full power on stall under the hood and when the aircraft fell over into a spin all he said was "you got yourself into it - now get out of it". Thankfully I had been trained in spin recovery (although not under the hood) - I was a very nervous 50 year old !! After that instrument flying here in the UK never presented any problems.

Other than that, nothing really.

Tom
 
Without doubt, my officer selection course and interview, I passed!!

Next to that my DSC vhf course, scary!!
 
A level maths was in 2 sections.Pure maths was a doddle, Applied Maths forget it.Of course this was in the days when A levels were a little more difficult.
 
I think its easier to answer this question by saying that every exam (whatever it is) gets harder the older I get.

It seems easier to remember things when you are younger - much harder these days.
 
Mine was the multi engine flight test...never been so nervous walking out to an aeroplane.
Great examiner, but I don't think I've ever done such an intensive 2 hours, it was a also a terrible time in the de-breifing when he tore me to shreds....then went on to tell me I'd passed....the sod. :D
 
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