Kaabal2008:
Completely forgot to introduce myself into the forum, too busy freaking out on the CPC. It’s been interesting reading the views on O/D, it’s something I want to get into. Trouble is I can’t see how you can make money out of it.I will keep reading
There is money to be made, but I feel that you might need to specialise, and/or maybe offer something else that makes you unique. The trouble is that that’s sometimes quite difficult to achieve.
I failed my unit 4 exam I can see the senario on the OCR websight. Where can you find the questions? So I can try sit down to see where i went wrong?
tlc:
I failed my unit 4 exam I can see the senario on the OCR websight. Where can you find the questions? So I can try sit down to see where i went wrong?
Look back through your study pack, if you have one.
Dave the Renegade:
tlc:
I failed my unit 4 exam I can see the senario on the OCR websight. Where can you find the questions? So I can try sit down to see where i went wrong?Look back through your study pack, if you have one.
Hi Dave, I’m not sure whether you noticed the date on that post… but it’s a post I’d missed. 
If I’d seen it in time , I’d have answered like this:
tlc:
I failed my unit 4 exam I can see the senario on the OCR websight. Where can you find the questions? So I can try sit down to see where i went wrong?Hi tlc, I’m guessing that you passed your unit 1 and unit 2 exams…?
The case study is designed to test your knowledge of the whole course, so it might be difficult to see exactly where you went wrong. Assuming that you passed units 1 & 2, I’d say from experience that you probably didn’t set out the case study answers in the way that OCR wanted. I’ve seen many candidates fail on unit 4 for that very reason alone.
I’d suggest that you revisit the OCR website (link in my first post in this topic) and read the Chief Examiner’s reports, because they explain what OCR is looking for, the way that your answers should be set out and the commonest reasons for failure.
At one time there were some ‘model answers’ so they might be worth a read too whilst you’re there.
Sometimes, the questions might appear later on the site sometime after the exams are out of the way, but sometimes not.
My best tip for unit 4 is to download the scenario at the earliest opportunity and read it thoroughly.
Once you’ve read it, just remember that they can only ask you questions relating to the info given in the scenario, then you’ll be able to work out the questions you’ll be asked in the unit 4 exam.My next tip for unit 4 is to read the question very carefully and take it exactly at face value.
Eg. if a question says “List three items that …,” or “List three advantages of …” Then your answer should be:
- x
- y
- z
If you write an essay in response to that question, you’re sunk, because you took no notice of the instruction in the question. The operative word in that question is “List.” If you wrote more than three, then only the FIRST three will be looked at by the marker. You might have listed things by using a scattergun approach and listed, say 8 things, but the first 5 were ‘iffy,’ and even though three good answers were at the bottom of the list, again you’ll score a zero for that too.
Eg. if a question says "explain what a … is for, " then you should write a short explanation.
My tip for an explanation is to keep it fairly short and use the terminology and language that you saw when you read the relevant module.I’ve no idea exactly how/why you failed, but I’ve tried to give you some pointers I gained whilst I taught CPC and invigilated the exams.
I’ve never been a marker, but I have seen the written instructions they receive.
Without knowing tlc’s results for the unit 1 and unit 2 exams, a simple re-read of the course material might not be the remedy to the failure and a successful re-sit of unit 4, so without a little more info, my answer is only hypothetical. 
Im currently doing my cpc national (exam 11th sept 09) find most of it common sense (thats me stuffed then lol) although i am finding the finacial management and vehicle costing somewhat troublesome (knew there was a reason i drove for a living) So got fingers crossed
the g bear:
Im currently doing my cpc national (exam 11th sept 09) find most of it common sense (thats me stuffed then lol) although i am finding the finacial management and vehicle costing somewhat troublesome (knew there was a reason i drove for a living) So got fingers crossed
Hi g bear, I’d like to wish you good luck with your CPC exams. 
If it’s of any help, the financial stuff is what most folks find difficult, so you’re not on your own.
TIP: Download and read the unit 4 case-study scenario at the earliest opportunity. 
The other stuff in the ‘national’ link above is worthwhile, especially the reports, because you can learn from other people’s mistakes for free. 
