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:PC exam 'off the rails'
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kIMS that the exam for the tificate of professional npetence is "going off the Is" have been made by the eight Transport Associa ;peaking in Preston last ek, FTA director of admination and legal services Bill Is cited as an example of )ing off the rails" a question the minimum square foo,e of office floor space per person, and asked what it had to do with the operation of goods vehicles.
With questions like that said Mr Mills, it was no wonder that the Royal Society of Arts, which runs the exam for the Department of Transport, was trying to keep exam papers secret after the exam.
There was no reason for such secrecy and indeed FTA knew of no other exam where students were denied such important preparatory information.
Without such background information on the scope of the examination and the standard of the questions it was difficult to advise students on the way in which they should prepare themselves, and the degree of detailed knowledge which was required.