Anyone else doing the upcoming exams in may or the refresher course this week?
Not this time around, good luck for it!
Best of luck FS.
Where is there a calendar of exam dates?
For the cert exam --> www.ibd.org.uk/qualifications/examinations/gcb/170/examination-dates/
Looking to do the exam in November. Before i fork out the cash, does anyone know if the exam content is available online to study, or do I have to pay for that as well? The website isn't laid out very well to access this information easily.
I'd send Natalie an email if you have concerns
https://www.ibd.org.uk/about-us/meet-the-staff/115/natalie-michel-training-beer-academy-administrator/
Have a look at this site,
http://72.41.37.66/gcbquizes/gcb1.html
the questions for the general certificate can be quite ambiguous with several right answers, just some answers are more correct than others. I'm not sure if they supply past papers or typical questions to practice on, it may seem a bit bizarre but some people find the diploma easier, as there are past papers and examiners comments available
There are official notes given a few months prior to the exams.
Or you could do the prep course through taste4sucsess which give you the unofficial notes plus they may pay for the exam.
You don't get any past papers directly from ibd but the taste4sucsess does have mocks.
I have done 6 mocks under exam conditions (in class) and scrored consistantly over 90% in all. It'll be interesting to see if my official score lines up with the mocks.
Quote from: Frequent Sequence on April 28, 2016, 09:46:11 PM
I have done 6 mocks under exam conditions (in class) and scrored consistantly over 90% in all. It'll be interesting to see if my official score lines up with the mocks.
I'll be interested to see how they match up. Please let me know how the exam compared to the mocks and also, how you're results compared to the mocks. Best of luck tomorrow.
Thanks Enno :)
I'll post how I think it went tomorrow.
The strange thing is that even though it's a digital multiple choice we don't get the results until july. I would have thought that like the driver theory they could give the score instantly.
Right well that went well. I think...
The questions were harder than the mocks. They were more technical and the choices were very tricky and similar as to catch you out.
I do feel like I passed. I would guess I got 80 to 90 percent of the questions right with the rest being guesses.
However because of the nature of the answers and the wording of questions I may have gotten some wrong that I thought I knew.
Any ways i just got an email saying I'll get my results in a couple of weeks. I'll post them here for better or worse.
Right I'm off for pints.
Best of luck!!
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I dont suppose you could PM me any notes you have for the exam Frequent Sequence? Gonna start looking through the mocks exams and papers online for this exam.
I think you would be better served reading the syllabus which has a very good break down of the topics covered.
the reason I say that is if you decide to take the exam they send you the notes which are the most up to date.
my notes may not be accurate.
I found these study cards online https://www.studyblue.com/#flashcard/view/14716246
Quote from: Sorcerers Apprentice on April 28, 2016, 08:36:48 PM
Have a look at this site,
http://72.41.37.66/gcbquizes/gcb1.html
the questions for the general certificate can be quite ambiguous with several right answers, just some answers are more correct than others. I'm not sure if they supply past papers or typical questions to practice on, it may seem a bit bizarre but some people find the diploma easier, as there are past papers and examiners comments available
Always the sleuth, I found that replacing the gcb1 with gcb2, 3 etc gives you other section tests, goes up all the way to gcb20 ^-^
Well I got my results. I was pretty much spot on with my estimated score. ;D
For anyone thinking of doing the exams I would say the real exam is about 15% harder than the mocks. There is a lot of luck involved because you can be asked from apool of 900 questions so you could get lucky but i wouldn't count on it.
Congrats dude, enjoy the celebratory beers!
So it's a random draw from 900 questions? Not x number from wort production, yeast management and so on down the line?
Thanks fobster :).
The sections do have a predetermined number of questions. 5 for sweet wort production etc.
But the questions are random so no one will have the same set of questions.
Congrats Sean
Now the hard work begins - cleaning cleaning, cleaning!
Cheers John! I'm well used to the cleaning from working in independent. I can see a lot more in my future because I just started in Jack Cody's.
Any one done the diploma? :D
Quote from: Frequent Sequence on May 29, 2016, 11:51:13 AM
Thanks fobster :).
The sections do have a predetermined number of questions. 5 for sweet wort production etc.
But the questions are random so no one will have the same set of questions.
Quite like the Microsoft exams I've done so!
I see the Taste 4 Success course is scheduled for the 5th September, no venue yet.
Worth doing? They give you mock exams right? I'm pretty good at getting a study plan going meself.
How did you pay for the exams? I'm trying to do it online here with a visa debit and it's a no go.
Taste4success payed for the course and the exam. I covered travel and accommodation.
Quote from: garciaBernal on July 18, 2016, 01:52:08 PM
How did you pay for the exams? I'm trying to do it online here with a visa debit and it's a no go.
Quote from: garciaBernal on July 18, 2016, 01:52:08 PM
How did you pay for the exams? I'm trying to do it online here with a visa debit and it's a no go.
Must be your bank. I paid for it via Visa Debit.
Cheers. They're sending me out an invoice so I can do a bank transfer. Drama!
All paid for. Anyone got any links to past exams or mock exams? The flip cards link provided by Frequent Sequence are handy but are they a good representation of the exam questions? And the link provided by Sorcerers Apprentice doesn't go past Chapter 3 anymore. Thanks so far though.
I would also be grateful for links to question banks.
Going through the notes here and there is an awful lot to learn so some kind of question practice would be great.
Bombs away! Sent in my application there. Roll up the sleeves time!
For anyone doing the exam, there's a course below from the 5th to the 9th of September in Cork. And if you're on the dole I believe there is 100% funding available. I'll be confirming this myself tomorrow.
http://taste4success.ie/event/general-certificate-in-brewing-5
http://www.skillnets.ie/eligibility-criteria-unemployed-people
Anyone else registered for the 8th Nov exam? How are you finding the material?
Quote from: ac13 on September 06, 2016, 04:17:46 PM
Anyone else registered for the 8th Nov exam? How are you finding the material?
I'm quite happy with the first 10 chapters but a little less so with the second half. Just started printing out the study cards for myself and constantly reading back over the more technical engineering side of things. I'd like to have an alternative question bank to what is provided in the study blue link though.
Glad to hear others are finding the same. The last few chapters really bogged me down. I haven't had a look at the flash cards yet.
Quote from: garciaBernal on September 06, 2016, 04:29:25 PM
Quote from: ac13 on September 06, 2016, 04:17:46 PM
Anyone else registered for the 8th Nov exam? How are you finding the material?
I'm quite happy with the first 10 chapters but a little less so with the second half. Just started printing out the study cards for myself and constantly reading back over the more technical engineering side of things. I'd like to have an alternative question bank to what is provided in the study blue link though.
There is a lot of info in the notes but the sample questions do not seem to go into crazy detail so I'm hoping not to get too bogged down.
Quote from: Will on September 17, 2016, 01:24:35 PM
There is a lot of info in the notes but the sample questions do not seem to go into crazy detail so I'm hoping not to get too bogged down.
Are you talking about the nine questions they give you on the IBD site? It's not much to go on...
But a lot of it boils down to reading the question carefully. 2 hours is plenty of time. The notes tell you the number of questions per chapter etc.
I'll just leave this... HERE (http://98.130.19.103/exams/GCB-S01.html)
The address holds for 02, 03, 04 etc
Quote from: fobster on September 18, 2016, 11:21:12 PM
Quote from: Will on September 17, 2016, 01:24:35 PM
There is a lot of info in the notes but the sample questions do not seem to go into crazy detail so I'm hoping not to get too bogged down.
Are you talking about the nine questions they give you on the IBD site? It's not much to go on...
But a lot of it boils down to reading the question carefully. 2 hours is plenty of time. The notes tell you the number of questions per chapter etc.
I'll just leave this... HERE (http://98.130.19.103/exams/GCB-S01.html)
The address holds for 02, 03, 04 etc
Out of curiosity does anyone know how relevant/accurate these are to the actual exam questions ? Been using them a good bit recently but don't want to rely on them too much in case they're not representative ...
Quote from: ac13 on October 12, 2016, 12:08:02 PM
Quote from: fobster on September 18, 2016, 11:21:12 PM
Quote from: Will on September 17, 2016, 01:24:35 PM
There is a lot of info in the notes but the sample questions do not seem to go into crazy detail so I'm hoping not to get too bogged down.
Are you talking about the nine questions they give you on the IBD site? It's not much to go on...
But a lot of it boils down to reading the question carefully. 2 hours is plenty of time. The notes tell you the number of questions per chapter etc.
I'll just leave this... HERE (http://98.130.19.103/exams/GCB-S01.html)
The address holds for 02, 03, 04 etc
Out of curiosity does anyone know how relevant/accurate these are to the actual exam questions ? Been using them a good bit recently but don't want to rely on them too much in case they're not representative ...
Same here. I'd be keen to know if they are reflective of the final exam? I'm finding the material quite tough to cover - it goes into a lot of technical detail and the multi-choice answers are extremely similar to one another.
I'm taking the exam in November as well so I can't comment on their similarity to the real thing though rest assured it's a damn sight better for revision than the sample questions the IBD give you!
Squeaky bum time! Good luck tomorrow everyone!
Best of luck
Those questions seem similar to the ones back when I did the exam!
Best of luck! Enjoy a pint afterwards!
The results are in and the IBD General Breing Cert has been passed! Delighted. How did the rest of ye do?
Congrats garciaBernal - Passed here as well with credit grade. Delighted.
Feedback for anyone doing the exam in future -
The questions in this link (http://98.130.19.103/exams/GCB-S01.html) that was previously posted are pretty accurate for study but the format of the questions can be different.
There were several multi answer questions (Choose 2 corrrect from 4, choose 3 correct from 5) and some identify the parts of a diagram questions (yeast cell scructure came up for me).
Ensure to read the questions correctly as some of them I answered incorrectly until I read back over them again ("which one of these is NOT a ...").
Make sure you know your formulas - hop utilisation & IBU's, dilution ratios, etc.
Thinking of booking onto the Diploma course in July now ...
Well done to you both, those questions don't look too difficult but the answers are well designed to trip you so not easy at all.
Congrats folks! Got a credit grade myself. Chuffed!