Instructor manual corrections.

[Steve Summers]

Hi All, I have recently been running the new syllabus SD lectures and test paper A and I have found that the overlay for same has questions 15 and 16 wrong, and I say that with some degree of certainty as even my better half who has a degree in maths cannot find how the answer on the overlay came to be.

Has anyone else found this or any other mistakes and if so are there any ammendments/corrections that I can obtain.

Safe diving,
Steve.

[PeteM]

Hi All, I have recently been running the new syllabus SD lectures and test paper A and I have found that the overlay for same has questions 15 and 16 wrong, and I say that with some degree of certainty as even my better half who has a degree in maths cannot find how the answer on the overlay came to be.

Has anyone else found this or any other mistakes and if so are there any ammendments/corrections that I can obtain.

Here you go
<a href="http://www.bsac.org/techserv/irc/dtpcor.shtml" >http://www.bsac.org/techserv/irc/dtpcor.shtml</a>

[PeteM]

:=Hi All, I have recently been running the new syllabus SD lectures and test paper A and I have found that the overlay for same has questions 15 and 16 wrong, and I say that with some degree of certainty as even my better half who has a degree in maths cannot find how the answer on the overlay came to be.
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:=Has anyone else found this or any other mistakes and if so are there any ammendments/corrections that I can obtain.

Here you go
http://www.bsac.org/techserv/irc/dtpcor.shtml

Oh and I have just checked the questions and they are right. I would guess that the point you are missing is you are not allowing the 1/3 reserve as this is the most common mistake I see with students

Pete

[Steve Summers]

:=:=Hi All, I have recently been running the new syllabus SD lectures and test paper A and I have found that the overlay for same has questions 15 and 16 wrong, and I say that with some degree of certainty as even my better half who has a degree in maths cannot find how the answer on the overlay came to be.
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:=:=Has anyone else found this or any other mistakes and if so are there any ammendments/corrections that I can obtain.
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:=Here you go
:= http://www.bsac.org/techserv/irc/dtpcor.shtml

Oh and I have just checked the questions and they are right. I would guess that the point you are missing is you are not allowing the 1/3 reserve as this is the most common mistake I see with students

Pete

Cheers for that Pete exactly right I was calculating on actual air to be breathed during dive I guess it's back to school for me then ;0)

Safe diving,
Steve.

[nick kay]

Is that the Q thats says "how much air is required"? If so, its another one of those "shouldn't we reword it" Qs, i.e. the Q doesn't make clear whether its trying to get at calculation of air usage or calculation of air planned to carry out a safe dive...

Any volunteers to help rewrite the papers?

[PeteM]

Is that the Q thats says "how much air is required"? If so, its another one of those "shouldn't we reword it" Qs, i.e. the Q doesn't make clear whether its trying to get at calculation of air usage or calculation of air planned to carry out a safe dive...

Any volunteers to help rewrite the papers?

15 is one of those but 16 is more straight forward "is the the cylinder enough" - personally I don't think these questions are a problem. I want trainees to think about reserves without prompting and I think this sort of question does help instill the mind set that planning for a reserve should be automatic.

mind you some of the other questions ...

[Steve Summers]

Is that the Q thats says "how much air is required"? If so, its another one of those "shouldn't we reword it" Qs, i.e. the Q doesn't make clear whether its trying to get at calculation of air usage or calculation of air planned to carry out a safe dive...

Any volunteers to help rewrite the papers?

Hi Nick, my thoughts exactly 15 is one of those and 16 could be my student had answered D still correct in the sense of not enough air for the dive but wrong in that reserve was not taken into account.

Safe diving,
Steve.