ACS Gas EXAMS

[woody60]

Hi All,

Just about to sit my ACS to get legal in the gas industry, any one got exam papers to help with revision???????

 

[davebgas]

its multiple choice, read CORGI manuals, unsafe sits book, and british standards. Didnt the college give you pointers as to what would be on it?

 

[woody60]

yep sure did, but would like to make my life easier... LOL

 

[swbjackson]

It can't get much easier. Most of the exams are open book so you need to know how to look things up. The closed book questions are straightforward that anyone working with gas would know straight away.

The practicals are straightforward as long as you've got enough hands on experience working with an established RGI.

If you haven't had enough practical experience you shouldn't be doing the assesments.

 

[gas_man_gaz]

did my retake last wk, wa pretty easy and all obvious faults in the bays.. even the written papers weren't bad just poorly written.. one of the questions i can remember from the written papers was what free area do the openings need to be on a slabbed over chimney

 

[Kev F]

got to do mine again next year with 3 appliances what is the cost at the min roughly? think it was around £800 last time

 

[kevindgas]

got to do mine again next year with 3 appliances what is the cost at the min roughly? think it was around £800 last time

i'm sure they will find a way to fleece you for more this time

last time i did core + 4 £950, got mine to do again next year, not sure if i'm going to bother

 

[Paul Barker]

I thouroughly recommend you try and memorise as much as you can, get people close to you to ask you questions about anorach things like positions of chimney (formerly flue) terminals. Then you will gain the respect of the examiner, and having that helps you a great deal. If he feels positive about you it helps. He doesn't want to pass someone who has to look up a lot of stuff.

 

[namsag]

Eaton have a look in the back of gas installer mag ,plenty doing it from £450 now core and 4 modules.

 

[clf-gas]

Resit my Doms next week, core + 4 £495 with cert.
This includes one day revision and two days assessments.

Commercial ACS whole different ball game,££££££££££££££.

 

[kirkgas]

i think a newbie would struggle with one day revision and two days exam, as he is not technically revising but learning something new, i work as a part time assessor so am comfortable to go in and do assessment only and did ccn1 + 5 in a day and a half, but have met many many very good gas engineers who need to go in for 4 days "training" and assessment combined just to refresh them on how to pass exams etc again as most of them haven't done anything like it for 5 years, i always stress i'm not trying to teach them how to be gas engineers but to assist them in getting through the ACS with guidance on reg changes, remembering vent calcs and flueing requirements, especially if they are not working on maintenance