Ella

 

 

I found that putting my notes under the relevant CIPD performance indicator sections beneficial.  Then I got the exam questions for that relevant module e.g. People Resourcing and put these under the performance indicators also.  I found it helpful because I was able to link up my notes to the exam questions and also the examiners expectations.  You could even put the examiners feedback in also.  When it came to the exam I was able to pin point easily, in most cases, which performance indicator it was.  It took me a while to get to this point, in the past I had tried various different methods but I just seemed to create more work for myself.  Keep it all simple as well, bullet points, pictures etc.  The theorists usually have a diagram so try to remember what the diagram looks like.  I guess in the first instance you have to determine what type of studier you are e.g little and often or once a week locked in a room etc.  Good luck

As I am sat here preparing for my MD & MTDF resits in a few weeks I stumbled on this thread. It says it all for me. The exams test your ability to interprete the question - not your knowledge! I feel i've dug myself into a hole I no longer want to be in and can't get out of.

When I asked my tutor about exam questions and what good looks like her response was that she wasn't party to the black art of CIPD examiners answers Why oh why do they make it so difficult? why don't we see actual examples of actual passed answers on the website? It would be such a help to see the layout of an actual pass standard question..... for goodness sake cipd there is so much information about everything else!

 Is it me or are the examiners living on a higher plane to those of us who live and work in the real world?

I have just re-sat my People Resourcing exam for the 5th time.  I have marginally failed thist twice.

I paid for feedback and found some of the advice useful.    I have worked really hard and tried to take some of the advice on board.   

De-motivated after this exam cannot describe how I feel.  Two hour exams are just not long enough.  I am a reflector by nature and of course have gone over in my head what I have wrote, it will never pass, it was useless.

I have wrote assignments and even completed my Management Report and either got Merits or Passes for these.  I simply need more time in an exam and the use of a keyboard.  I must admit I usually end up amending e-mails at least once before I send them.

When taking a two hour exam, there is simply not the opportunity to back track on what you have written. I do try and plan the Case Study and make some notes.   I cannot even get it to make sense when writing directly from my head. 

What does anyone else think?.  Thoroughly de-motivated 

     

 

 

Hi Hilary,

As I read your post I was just thinking to myself, I can identify with absolutely everything you are saying.  I sat People Resoucing for the 2nd time on Thursday and feel SO demotivated now too.  I worked so hard, took holidays from work and did so much revision and practice. 

I would definitely say I am also a reflector and like time to think about things before I make proposals but then when I do I am entirely happy with what I have recommended. 

The exam is a completely artificial situation, when would you ever be given an hour to plan a whole organisation's resourcing strategy!!!! In the exam situation I felt I was also so scared of failure and also the lack to think and time I definitely did not show my knowledge and skills very well at all. 

I was also expecting lots of questions about the current financial climate etc but there wasn't even one, and there were other questions that I wasn't even sure what was being asked! It's good to know that someone else feels the same, but it is so costly to resit as well, £50 for exam and again if you want feedback, you sometimes wonder if it is actually you that is benefitting from this as you just end up demotivated!

Our college got under a 35% pass mark and we received cohort feedback, I found it to be very much "this isn't what you should do" but no "this is a good answer" at all.  For L and D Rosemary Harrison gave us example exam answers  and whether they passed or failed and why which was so helpful.  More people in our class passed that exam than any other. 

I would be interested to hear other people's views on this subject.

Claire

Hi Claire and Hillary,

 I just stumbled across your entry in search of people in the same situation as me. Did you pass this time? I didn't and I am planning to re-sit resourcing in May. I am convinced that if I had 30 minutes more during the exam I would have pass! But as it stands I will just have to practice to become faster.

I believe that for me the way to achieve this is to gain more confidence in answering those questions by teaming up with people in the same situation, practicing together and exchanging knowledge and ideas on how to best tackle different resourcing subjects. If anyone is interested, please contact me!!!!!

 I hope to hear from you,

 Britta

Hi Britta,

 No I didn't pass again! I am so fed up of the subject I am going to resit Employee Relations in May and do PR in November as I can't take any more PR right now! 

 So I have failed twice now in PR and I am really beginning to question myself.  

 I would certainly be interested in practising questions, however I am not going to do PR until May.  

 

Claire 

Hi Clare,

It helped me to work with another student. We took it in turns to read a chapter of the specific book and write notes for the other person on that chapter. The following week the other person would read their notes, review anything that didn't make sense, and udate the notes. We used evernote, and did a chapter per person each week for the two different subjects. We also added a section in evernote for the different theorists. When it was time to review we just read our notes.

It's a difficult topic, especially when many of us are working full time with children and other commitments.

Hope this helps.
Good luck,
Lynnette