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How'd you people find the exam? Multiple choice was probs the most difficult. But overall, found it alright.
 

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Overall easy except the plinth quesdtion which I don't think I'll get full marks for.

MC was OK. You just had to read carefully. Corrected two MC just b4 the end of the exam, that I had done wrong ! :awesome:

I used biscuit joint for alternative to the butt joint. What did everyone else do?

16 a) Wasn't too sure what what to write, but I got 1 page
16 b) Open ended - Allowed me to write 3.5 pages of general safety stuff I learnt from other subjects :D
Isn't a biscuit joint as type of widening joint?
I did a dovetail joint for that one
 

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I don't do timber, but for section 3, did you guys actually talk about strategies to establish and maintain a safe work culture? or did you just write about safety equipment and techniques?
What long-term strategies (in order to maintain safe work culture) did you guys talk about?
Yeh i spoke aboustrategies to establish and maintain safe work culture.. (safe working scheme such as someone is outsourced as a speaclist too explain to staff. Also spoke about regulations, incentives, investment in PPE etc..)

and yeh i also used dovetail joint
 

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What was the answer to question 6 of the multiple choice the one about the purpose of dovetailed nailing in timber?
 

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To strengthen the joint (I think that was D?), it makes it less easy for the nail to get forced back out
 

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Our teacher reckoned it was the easiest paper he had seen in a long time, I'm annoyed I got the bent nail question wrong, I had to get the out all the time on my project, too bad I couldn't find pincers and just kept using pliers instead...
 

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yeah Q7 was 1:25. Q8 the one about the aim of sustainable forestry I think i answered D instead of C. Im pretty sure its C but im not sure.
 

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The exam wasn't bad but I missed the part of the diagram that pointed out the plinth... So I had no idea what a plinth was and described attaching a completely different piece of a cabinet... :punch: haha
 

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what did you get for the last MC question about the laquers? was it b or d?
 

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The exam wasn't bad but I missed the part of the diagram that pointed out the plinth... So I had no idea what a plinth was and described attaching a completely different piece of a cabinet... :punch: haha
Made that mistake as well, lost an easy three marks and I got (D) for the last question
 

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does anyone know what the b6 cut off will be for this subject?
 

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i thought the multiple choice was the easiest ever!
only one i didn't get was the one about the dovetail nail.. because when you use a dovetail joint you don't use nail, so i was confused.
 

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i used a stopped rebate joint, it was all i could think of really
 

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i think i did d, i can't remember which one was which. but when we left the exam we went and talked to our teacher and one of the other boys had the opposite to what i had only to realise he didn't double the answer for the two coats.
 

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i said to rebate bits of wood in the corners of the plinth then screw up through the bottom of the cabinet to attach it.
if there wasn't a diagram pointing out what the plinth was i wouldnt of had any idea either.
 

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