Exams and more exams

Exams and more exams

Today is the second day of my IDC, and after a quick coffee, we all started our early morning with some exams! What more do you want when you just got up?

We have two different sets of exams to do; the General Standards, and the Theory Exams. The General Standards Exam is all about the PADI Instructor Manual and PADI Instructor Guide.

It is an open book exam and we had 1,5 hours to complete it. When English isn't your first language, you also get 50% more time to do any exams. Fortunately, I had already done a similar exam on my PADI Assistant Instructorcourse, so I knew more or less what to expect. 
In the last couple of weeks, I have been studying my PADI Instructor Manual almost daily.

After that, it was time for the Theory Exams. There are 5 chapters:

Physics                                (the one I struggle with most!)

Physiology          (I struggle with the long, unfamiliar words in this chapter)

Equipment         (I’m okay with this one, I learned a lot about equipment at work in the last months)

RDP (Recreational Dive Planner)              (I struggle with the tables, although I’m fine with the eRDPml)

Skills and Environment                 (No real issues with this one)

Again, we had 1,5 hours to do the second part of the exams, and I even had time left on these, because most of the questions were easier than I had expected!

After the exams, we had a lunch break, and very patiently (not!) waited for our exam results. I turned out to score 100% on everything! I knew I had done my best on my studying, but I did not expect the result to be that good, so I was thrilled!

In the afternoon, we listened to David’s presentations about Teaching in Confined Water and Developing Knowledge Development.  

Now we know what to expect about those, and tomorrow we will be doing our first Confined Water presentations in the pool and also our Knowledge Development presentations in the classroom. 

Lots of homework for tonight! 

After feeling quite relaxed today, from the moment I started my exams, I’m a bit more nervous about my upcoming presentations!

You can read about the presentations next week!

Love, Alice