Exam / revision techniques

Hi everyone
The discussion has been very long but as I am probably as frustrated as many others out there I would like to share my thoughts with you.
I am about to do one of my exams next Friday and I am terrified. I have failed resourcing and although I did the resit few months ago we still havent got any results or feedback. We havent got the results from our written assignments either so now, when I am just about to hand in another assignment I am worried - and so are people from my group - that we should not be handing in our next assignments without having feedback from the first one. Cos how shall we learn and progress if we dont get any feedback on time? Being qualified as a teacher myself I am surprised that such things are allowed cos it seems to be against the idea of teaching/learning! At my current college we seem to be going through exams and assignmens without ever getting feedback and in the end, in summer, it is going to be: failed.But have we ever been given the opportunity to learn from mistakes? No.

Claire wrote that "It is unfortunate that there are times that the examination results do not reflect the capabilities of the students" - my question is why does CIPD doesnt do anything about it? I myself have spent 10 years at universities in 3 different countries and studying various subjects, I have BA and MA - and I must say that I have never experienced such exams where questions were so unclear. To be honest - untill I started CIPD - I never failed an exam for which I was prepared for...! Here, however, during my first year of studies we had a question on our first exam which only one person in the whole group understood...! out of ca 25 people. And what this indicates to me is that there is something wrong whith the questions, not with the students.
For my comming exam we had no preparation whatsoever, I havent been shown any past papers. I am so stressed about "what will be behind those questions" that I am waisting my time and energy trying to figure out how to figure out the questions rather than to actually learn. And this, to be honest, seems like a waste of time and not the point of those studies. The notes we are given in the class help little in the exams - so why waste so many hours doing it? why dont we practice case studies instead, for example?
Anyway, in my ideal world i would make these questions strainght forward so if my examiner wants me to create an action plan - why not simply mention it? I really think that right now many poeple waste to much time trying to figure out vague and tricky questions - and that shouldnt be the case as in real business my boss asks me direst questions.
Good luck to everyone who is taking exams. And to CIPD - please, please look into it. We are all here, willing to learn and do our absolute best but please let us get the opportunity to learn from mistakes, let us have proper feedback and questions which will demonstrate our knowledge and not ability to figure them out - or not.
Kind regards
Edyta

Hi everyone
The discussion has been very long but as I am probably as frustrated as many others out there I would like to share my thoughts with you.
I am about to do one of my exams next Friday and I am terrified. I have failed resourcing and although I did the resit few months ago we still havent got any results or feedback. We havent got the results from our written assignments either so now, when I am just about to hand in another assignment I am worried - and so are people from my group - that we should not be handing in our next assignments without having feedback from the first one. Cos how shall we learn and progress if we dont get any feedback on time? Being qualified as a teacher myself I am surprised that such things are allowed cos it seems to be against the idea of teaching/learning! At my current college we seem to be going through exams and assignmens without ever getting feedback and in the end, in summer, it is going to be: failed.But have we ever been given the opportunity to learn from mistakes? No.

Claire wrote that "It is unfortunate that there are times that the examination results do not reflect the capabilities of the students" - my question is why does CIPD doesnt do anything about it? I myself have spent 10 years at universities in 3 different countries and studying various subjects, I have BA and MA - and I must say that I have never experienced such exams where questions were so unclear. To be honest - untill I started CIPD - I never failed an exam for which I was prepared for...! Here, however, during my first year of studies we had a question on our first exam which only one person in the whole group understood...! out of ca 25 people. And what this indicates to me is that there is something wrong whith the questions, not with the students.
For my comming exam we had no preparation whatsoever, I havent been shown any past papers. I am so stressed about "what will be behind those questions" that I am waisting my time and energy trying to figure out how to figure out the questions rather than to actually learn. And this, to be honest, seems like a waste of time and not the point of those studies. The notes we are given in the class help little in the exams - so why waste so many hours doing it? why dont we practice case studies instead, for example?
Anyway, in my ideal world i would make these questions strainght forward so if my examiner wants me to create an action plan - why not simply mention it? I really think that right now many poeple waste to much time trying to figure out vague and tricky questions - and that shouldnt be the case as in real business my boss asks me direst questions.
Good luck to everyone who is taking exams. And to CIPD - please, please look into it. We are all here, willing to learn and do our absolute best but please let us get the opportunity to learn from mistakes, let us have proper feedback and questions which will demonstrate our knowledge and not ability to figure them out - or not.
Kind regards
Edyta