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  • #122
    mrpickle
    Registered Users Posts: 17 ✭mrpickle


    been a wild few weeks there. Going to have to get fit and crack on with this online learning! Hope everyone had a good xmas! No doubt we will all be getting a severe reality check soon enough


  • #123
    pb82
    Registered Users Posts: 194 ✭✭pb82


    mrpickle wrote: »
    been a wild few weeks there. Going to have to get fit and crack on with this online learning! Hope everyone had a good xmas! No doubt we will all be getting a severe reality check soon enough

    I'm scared

    Very scared :)

    2 weeks to get some semblance of fitness back


  • #124
    pb82
    Registered Users Posts: 194 ✭✭pb82


    Started my kit list shopping

    Where's best to get decent socks?


  • #125
    Mop a top
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,696 ✭✭✭Mop a top


    Not sure if this will help but I got men's hiking socks from tesco. I use them when I'm wearing my riding boots and have cut down on the rubbing as they're double layered. I got the smallest size since I'm only a 5 lol


  • #126
    pb82
    Registered Users Posts: 194 ✭✭pb82


    Mop a top wrote: »
    Not sure if this will help but I got men's hiking socks from tesco. I use them when I'm wearing my riding boots and have cut down on the rubbing as they're double layered. I got the smallest size since I'm only a 5 lol

    That sounds like the kinda thing I'm looking for

    Nightmare the kit list, it's like a task on the apprentice


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  • #127
    DesertCreat_15
    Registered Users Posts: 1,262 ✭✭✭DesertCreat_15


    Went for a jog today, might as well a been starting from scratch :eek:

    How are you's getting on with the learning? Some lift a stuff in the pre induction too. Im afraid i wont be fit to retain even half of it like.


  • #128
    pb82
    Registered Users Posts: 194 ✭✭pb82


    DesertCreat_15 wrote: »
    Went for a jog today, might as well a been starting from scratch :eek:

    How are you's getting on with the learning? Some lift a stuff in the pre induction too. Im afraid i wont be fit to retain even half of it like.

    If i cab retain 67 % of it ill be more than happy

    Finished pace on friday, couple more modules to do, went through all the knowledge checks from pre entry stuff was surprised how well I did

    Wee blast on exercise bike yesterday and a run today, safe to say I'll be getting a hard time on the fitness end of things, guaranteed to boke

    Damn you Christmas holiday binge


  • #129
    DesertCreat_15
    Registered Users Posts: 1,262 ✭✭✭DesertCreat_15


    pb82 wrote: »
    If i cab retain 67 % of it ill be more than happy

    Finished pace on friday, couple more modules to do, went through all the knowledge checks from pre entry stuff was surprised how well I did

    Wee blast on exercise bike yesterday and a run today, safe to say I'll be getting a hard time on the fitness end of things, guaranteed to boke

    Damn you Christmas holiday binge

    What way are you learning it? Just reading like Fúck over and over again ? I can't use my old style of learning for it, literally too much of it !


  • #130
    pb82
    Registered Users Posts: 194 ✭✭pb82


    DesertCreat_15 wrote: »
    What way are you learning it? Just reading like Fúck over and over again ? I can't use my old style of learning for it, literally too much of it !

    Pretty much just reading over it then doing the knowledge checks

    Will finish it this week then spend the week after really trying to hammer it home


  • #131
    VincentChase
    Registered Users Posts: 2 ✭VincentChase


    Struggling with the e-learning here too. There's such a huge volume of stuff it's difficult to know what to concentrate on?

    Is reading through everything gonna be enough to have a working knowledge of all sections or are we expected to know the in's and out's of all the components as well?


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  • #132
    pb82
    Registered Users Posts: 194 ✭✭pb82


    VincentChase wrote: »
    Struggling with the e-learning here too. There's such a huge volume of stuff it's difficult to know what to concentrate on?

    Is reading through everything gonna be enough to have a working knowledge of all sections or are we expected to know the in's and out's of all the components as well?

    I'm on the introduction to investigation module now and the amount of information is hard to take in

    I'd find it impossible to take notes on it as it's impossible to work out what you could leave out

    I'll hopefully read over it all another couple of times and see how I go


  • #133
    mrpickle
    Registered Users Posts: 17 ✭mrpickle


    This induction course is so tedious. I should have started sooner than I did. So much to take in! I hope everyone feels the same as me about it. Also, did a Whatsapp group ever materialize for this squad?


  • #134
    pb82
    Registered Users Posts: 194 ✭✭pb82


    It was a tough slog indeed

    I'm gonna start going through everything now and make notes

    Virtually impossible to narrow it down

    Don't think the whatsapp group materialised


  • #135
    DesertCreat_15
    Registered Users Posts: 1,262 ✭✭✭DesertCreat_15


    In the middle of note taking at the mo. Trying to not let it stress me out, but not that easily done, you're not alone anyway.

    Just me and NR14 in the whatsapp group so far ! :rolleyes: lol


  • #136
    pb82
    Registered Users Posts: 194 ✭✭pb82


    DesertCreat_15 wrote: »
    In the middle of note taking at the mo. Trying to not let it stress me out, but not that easily done, you're not alone anyway.

    Just me and NR14 in the whatsapp group so far ! :rolleyes: lol

    Courtesy

    Courtesy is a quality.....aaaaaahhhhh


  • #137
    200WattWarlock
    Registered Users Posts: 28 ✭200WattWarlock


    pb82 wrote: »
    Courtesy

    Courtesy is a quality.....aaaaaahhhhh

    .. is an ESSENTIAL quality...

    I swear there's a path being worn in my carpet.


  • #138
    JtmC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 56 ✭✭JtmC


    I hope it's a smooth path in the carpet.


  • #139
    pb82
    Registered Users Posts: 194 ✭✭pb82


    JtmC wrote: »
    I hope it's a smooth path in the carpet.

    My good temper is being tested with information overload


  • #140
    gvillehopeful
    Registered Users Posts: 20 ✭gvillehopeful


    How's everyone been splitting their time up over the induction 'v' the pre-entry material and then the definitions?
    Finding it tough enough my note talking isn't the best and it's difficult to know what they want ya to know for the test then what your working knowledge should be for the first week! Stressed already lol!


  • #141
    mrpickle
    Registered Users Posts: 17 ✭mrpickle


    gvillehopeful wrote: »
    How's everyone been splitting their time up over the induction 'v' the pre-entry material and then the definitions?
    Finding it tough enough my note talking isn't the best and it's difficult to know what they want ya to know for the test then what your working knowledge should be for the first week! Stressed already lol!

    I've basically just finished note taking on the induction course. From tomorrow on I'm going to spend an hour or two a day reading over the notes I made for the pre-entry back in August and the Induction notes I have made this week and hopefully that's enough. Is it just the courtesy definition we need to know for when we start?


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  • #142
    200WattWarlock
    Registered Users Posts: 28 ✭200WattWarlock


    mrpickle wrote: »
    Is it just the courtesy definition we need to know for when we start?

    Yep, that's what I took away from the induction.


  • #143
    LadyVernal
    Registered Users Posts: 114 ✭✭LadyVernal


    mrpickle wrote: »
    I've basically just finished note taking on the induction course. From tomorrow on I'm going to spend an hour or two a day reading over the notes I made for the pre-entry back in August and the Induction notes I have made this week and hopefully that's enough. Is it just the courtesy definition we need to know for when we start?

    Hey it is getting close now... you do not need to know the Courtesy def for the week 1 exam, haven't been asked it til week 8 exams


  • #144
    pb82
    Registered Users Posts: 194 ✭✭pb82


    LadyVernal wrote: »
    Hey it is getting close now... you do not need to know the Courtesy def for the week 1 exam, haven't been asked it til week 8 exams

    It's not for the exam, one of the tutors said it would be something you would be expected to recite verbatim on parade


  • #145
    LadyVernal
    Registered Users Posts: 114 ✭✭LadyVernal


    pb82 wrote: »
    It's not for the exam, one of the tutors said it would be something you would be expected to recite verbatim on parade

    yea we were told that too lol. nt been done yet haha... ;)


  • #146
    pb82
    Registered Users Posts: 194 ✭✭pb82


    LadyVernal wrote: »
    yea we were told that too lol. nt been done yet haha... ;)

    This is great news

    Though I'll try and learn it just because I really am that unlucky

    How you getting on?


  • #147
    gvillehopeful
    Registered Users Posts: 20 ✭gvillehopeful


    mrpickle wrote: »
    I've basically just finished note taking on the induction course. From tomorrow on I'm going to spend an hour or two a day reading over the notes I made for the pre-entry back in August and the Induction notes I have made this week and hopefully that's enough. Is it just the courtesy definition we need to know for when we start?

    My notes feel like I've just copied some sections out hard to judge what is needed. But I feel some of its going in anyway! That big pre-read is worrying though is that for week one? Or people just worrying about the exam stuff first?


  • #148
    tron2000
    Registered Users Posts: 18 ✭tron2000


    Last week of freedom boys and girls. How's everyone getting on? My note making is a nightmare also considering we have no idea what we are going to be asked. Everyone done their shopping?


  • #149
    pb82
    Registered Users Posts: 194 ✭✭pb82


    tron2000 wrote: »
    Last week of freedom boys and girls. How's everyone getting on? My note making is a nightmare also considering we have no idea what we are going to be asked. Everyone done their shopping?

    Going today to hopefully finish the shopping

    Pretty sure I'll forget something, but sure tesco isn't far away


  • #150
    tron2000
    Registered Users Posts: 18 ✭tron2000


    pb82 wrote: »
    Going today to hopefully finish the shopping

    Pretty sure I'll forget something, but sure tesco isn't far away

    Any joy in finiding somewhere to get these wooden hangers with the sliding clips on bottom?


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  • #151
    pb82
    Registered Users Posts: 194 ✭✭pb82


    tron2000 wrote: »
    Any joy in finiding somewhere to get these wooden hangers with the sliding clips on bottom?

    Nope

    Gonna try and get the felt non slip ones, should do the same job?

    I'm gonna open a shop that stocks all the stuff u need in the one place

    Or failing that package it all up on ebay absolute pain


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