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Gins - I've found that most people tend to fall into categories - those that are good at spelling, writing etc. and those who are good at mathematics and the sciences. My OH is great at maths and science but a hopeless speller. Our daughter takes after him and one of our sons takes after me - he is a good speller and avid reader and writes very well. Our other son is good at everything although he is doing biology and chemistry at University he is a good reader, an excellent speller and he writes an excellent well thought out essay.

I actually never had a lot of problems with exams. I would get nervous of course but never stressed and I always managed to do quite well. I have done various courses at college and never really worried about exams then. Probably because I was doing what I really wanted to do :-)

Thats the one.
Mayday,Mayday,


Hang on my pencils broken . :-D :-D :-D

It's not May Day, you bithering fool. It is July :-D :-D :-D

:-P :-P :-P :-P :-P :-P :-P, May days best coz my birthday is in that month :-P :-P :-P ;-)

Talking of radio......

while it was a long while ago,1959, the most influential test I recall was my Tg op pass off,in the royal signals. We had to hear the morse code and transpose it directly to a "situp and beg" imperial typewriter, an uppercase only machine fortunately.or a teleprinter,
passoff speed if I recall correctly was 18 words a minute, a word being a 5 character group,and no errors

some of the keener candidates were able to todo 25 or more words a minute and chasing 30 was a thrill..........
(from a punched paper tape machine)
Bob

That sounds hard Bob :-0

Oh yes cochynwasNastyjohn,

It was the Joan Littlewood Drama School. Is it still there I wonder. Wasn't able to be there, even though I loved it, as the senior Sister told the Matron that I refused a to do an extra shift because I was learning to be an actress?.......
In those days you where owned by the Matron and the senior duster, most of whom were single. In fact even when I was training there we had to live before our finals if we married before the results! One girl married one week thinking that the Matron would not find out!!! But she did and the girl was instantly dismissed and did not pass her finals.......

Going out soon

:-)

My hardest exam was for my BII (British Institute of Inn keeping) because I wanted it so badly, Equally as hard was my NLC (national licensee certificate) because I already had a pub and the BII (which is much harder than the NLC) but I needed to get my NLC for the courts to give me a license.

and yes by the way I passed both, my NLC with 99%

Sorry Changed my name again. John seems a bit easier than Cochyn. Have heard the Innkeeping qualifications are quite hard, Uzzinsunshine.

Remembered also there are exams to be a Master of Wine. Very hard at the highest level. but am told one develops a very sophisticaled palate. :-D

I saw a demo of that at our local RAF signals museum Bob :-D

JohnLovesCocoa yes the Inn keeping was hard at that time, but everything changes, OH now works here in Spain and as much as he hates wine, I will not say what he calls it! But he does know wine and does the sommelier stuff at where he works, and he has learnt it and is good at it

Right now I think it is The Exam for Living!

Only joking!

When I took my finals to be a Registered Nurse the only thing I could not think of was the third of the then 3 types of Insulin. The person testing me was very kind and told me that she was sure I new it and a little teeny weeny word set my brain in motion.

I was shaking when the post was handed to me to open to see if I had really gained my dream......low and behold I got great results.......thank goodness.

:-D :-D

Spanish Eyes When I recently took my Registered Nurse exams, there were four types of insulin (rapid-acting, short-acting, long-acting, and intermediate-acting).

Total fib of course. But had no idea what you were talking about, so wikied it and found above.

Many congrats on doing so well. I know it is a difficult subject and you have to be very qualified to be a nurse.

I like your point about the exam for living being hardest we now face. So true. Finance, relationship difficulties, jobs disappearing or being down-graded, ill health, unruly neighbours, heroes from pop world, football word etc falling from pedestals we have put them on. Yes, living now is the greatest test or exam some of us have ever faced.