Alan Browne
Contributor
So, small classroom,
1 student did Nitrox years ago and wanted to refresh, so he wasn't in it for the exam.
1 was really lost - didn't prepare. Course was given in Imperial. He was French (France) and confused most of the time because things weren't metric.
2 Students (couple) seemed to have prepped, but were muffing a lot of the practice calculations.
And me.
Very good instructor.
I prep'd beginning about 6 weeks ago by reading the material, refreshing my table skills for OW, then the added the other tables for EANx as I went along. No biggie.
The class was in French and I don't know the French terminology well. So on some of the worksheets I really mis-interpreted the questions badly (the open written replies). Took a while to settle in.
The instructor said a lot of places do the classroom work 2 hours to prep for the exam. Ridiculous. If you prepared well, then (in class) went through all of the theory and how to do things, 30 minutes for lunch, some exercises (measuring tanks with 2 different oxygen meters) and so on in class there is no way you could do it in 2 hours ...
Gave us a tour of their Nitrox setup. (Discovered odd looking tanks ... they fill regular air for various local fire departments as well).
The whole thing took from 9:00 to 16:00 (exam included) ... well, when I left the couple and the French guy were still at it...
I scored 23/25 and 22/25. Reviewed with the instructor. Dumb mistakes mostly, but one was the way the answers were written seemed not specific enough. (Exam was in French or English - I read the question and answers in both languages and couldn't get the answer I thought it should be (signs of O2 tox onset)).
1 student did Nitrox years ago and wanted to refresh, so he wasn't in it for the exam.
1 was really lost - didn't prepare. Course was given in Imperial. He was French (France) and confused most of the time because things weren't metric.
2 Students (couple) seemed to have prepped, but were muffing a lot of the practice calculations.
And me.
Very good instructor.
I prep'd beginning about 6 weeks ago by reading the material, refreshing my table skills for OW, then the added the other tables for EANx as I went along. No biggie.
The class was in French and I don't know the French terminology well. So on some of the worksheets I really mis-interpreted the questions badly (the open written replies). Took a while to settle in.
The instructor said a lot of places do the classroom work 2 hours to prep for the exam. Ridiculous. If you prepared well, then (in class) went through all of the theory and how to do things, 30 minutes for lunch, some exercises (measuring tanks with 2 different oxygen meters) and so on in class there is no way you could do it in 2 hours ...
Gave us a tour of their Nitrox setup. (Discovered odd looking tanks ... they fill regular air for various local fire departments as well).
The whole thing took from 9:00 to 16:00 (exam included) ... well, when I left the couple and the French guy were still at it...
I scored 23/25 and 22/25. Reviewed with the instructor. Dumb mistakes mostly, but one was the way the answers were written seemed not specific enough. (Exam was in French or English - I read the question and answers in both languages and couldn't get the answer I thought it should be (signs of O2 tox onset)).