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Ahh ok. This year is a lil different. We have three instructors teaching three different parts. Day one and two is residential carpentry aspects, day three is estimating, day four is roof framing and day five is plans, specs and codes.

So I have one exam with the first instructor for residential carpentry Aspects Tomorrow I have to do an inclass final estimating assignment (likely a garage or basement takeoff) for the one instructor.

Essentially this year is a fucking mess lol

 

I have three exams and an in class final assignment this year instead of a single exam like last year

 

Mhhhmmm tostinos pizza rolls and a bottle of wine like a mafia baus

 

that's weird, is that how it normally is for 2nd year or did the apprenticeship board make changes?

when I was in 3rd year the apprenticeship board decided that we have to use an exceptionally shitty calculator (no memory, no 2 row display) for the final exam, that decision was reversed a week before the exam.

 

The college that runs the program decided to fuck it all up to make the union douche bag employees happy...

 

For our interprovincial exam they give us a calculator and a code book.

 

they gave us a code book and we brought our own calculator, the one we have to use, and they reset it on the way in so you couldn't save formulas in the memory. we always had to sit at a table with another guy writing an exam in another trade, for my 3rd year exam I sat with a 50 something guy writing his 1st year carpentry exam. this guy was pounding angrily on his calculator and eventually abandoned it and did all his calculations by hand, still rather angrily. after the 3rd time he called someone over for a fresh piece of blank paper I glanced over to see what he was doing that he needed so much paper... FUCKING LONG DIVISION. I couldn't believe a 50 something year old man didn't know how to use a calculator, blew my mind.

 

Construction Master ?

 

Interprovincial is the Red Seal exam.

 

Most 20 somethings can't do long division let alone addition or subtraction

 

No you DB sparky , a Construction Master calculator .

It accepts input in feet and inches and fractions thereof

 

Nope not allowed. They want us to be able to change to decimal feet/inches to fractions and be able to do the long hand work for calculations

 

people are stupid, hard to argue that.

 

You calling me stupid?

 

Give me some electrical equations... those are easy. You put me back into calculus equations and I am done. Even advanced algebraic equations I might be F'd anymore.

 

Depends

Can you do long division ?

 

Yes

 

haha, no.

 

Ok

I won't call you stoopid

 

easy huh? ok

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