ninpin
Hello Everyone,
I did my Stage 1 recently but was a bit annoyed about something that happened...
We were split into four groups and our group was the last of the day to talk to the ATCO and watch the NATS film. During the film I noticed that there were about three or four answers to questions in the motivation paper we had just sat. Some of them were pretty blatent aswell and illustrated by diagrams etc.
There were two groups on the day who saw the film and then sat the motivation paper straight away, and obviously this is really unfair to those of us who saw it after.
Luckily I did know the answers that came up in the film, but I'm sure there were a few people there who didn't. I met one girl who hadn't read the preparation materials at all and then she sat there on the day and got told some of the answers by NATS! Surely if they want to weed out the people who don't put the effort in then this is not a great thing to do!
Has anyone had a similar experience or was it just on the day we did it?
its not possible to get everyone to watch the video first then do the papers. on the day i was tested the people who got there earliest watched the video first. then next lot of people were put in a room to do the cubes/checking, final group was motivation and diagrams. as far as i know NATS have always split people into groups. specially when they get big turn outs. there was 54 people in our morning session with another 60 expected for the afternoon.
the girl you mention who didn't learn it might of got 3 answers from the video. shes not going to pass on 3 or 4 correct answers is she? if you learnt the document NATS sent, you will know all the answers on the motivation paper and have nothing to worry about. its not a competition, if you pass, your in.