I bombed Q100 ROR for 500/1600 master. Was scoring 90s and above on Lapware.
Some of the questions and answers seemed confusing and didn’t make much sense to me.
Any tips to study for restesting?
Just keep taking Lapware tests and study the question bank. How badly did you bomb it? That shouldn’t happen if you are properly running the practice tests and getting passing scores. Either its a fluke or youre not generating the practice tests correctly.
Maybe study the rules themselves…?
If you noticed a specific area you were having issues with I’d suggest studying the time book itself focusing on that area.
I failed a rules test once because I hadn’t bothered study the Annexes and the tests they were using at that time were heavy on questions from the Annexes. My solution was to go home and study the Annexes that night then retest.
Say what you will, but I found that with the structuring of the exam, having a working knowledge of the rules is enough to get you right around upper 80s- lower 90s score, right on the edge of passing. To more reliably get over the top, I found it useful to familiarize myself with the question bank. Mileage may vary and all that but I think its good advice for someone who’s scoring like an 88 or so. OP says they “bombed” but I’m not sure what kind of score that means.
Appreciate the tips for studying.
I got a 70. Ill double check that I’m using the tests correctly on lapware and read more of the book itself than I had previously. Hopefully that can help better understand the wording of the questions.
Ah yeah, you shouldn’t be scoring a 70 at this point. Not to kick a guy when he’s down but in that case, yeah better go over the rules book in detail. That alone should get you at least to the upper 80s, then once youre at that level, use Lapware to finish it off.
Haha I will do better next time. I think i got so caught up with using lapware and other programs that I lost focus on the material itself. Its a good reminder, go back to the basics.
I encountered the same problem last month when testing, passed everything except RR. Went into the test on the first day with it being my most confident module and scored a 68. Almost all the questions I failed felt like ridiculous information I never encountered prior even though I studied with the rules of the road book and practice tests. Retook it the next week and passed with a 96. All I did was do more practice questions to learn the very unique “one off” questions. And then the retake test questions felt way easier. I honestly think sometimes you can just get screwed with the questions. I used the app “Sea Trials” for all my studying. It’s free and you can do practice questions even when you only have a few free minutes here and there, it helped a lot.
First and foremost the ROR is a legal document, so application , responsibility and definitions and (Rule1, Rule2 and Rule 3) are critical to overall understanding.
I do not know the format for your particular examinations but for my 2nd mates in 1973 “trick” questions were allowed but were outlawed by the time I became an examiner.
A typical example would be your see the red and green side lights and masthead light of a vessel at about a mile at 4 points off the starboard bow,what action will you take? As you can see all lights you would take no action as no “close quarters situation” exists ,the logic being the vessel will cross the stern by the time it reaches the intersection tracks of both vessels. However the correct answer was /is I would carefully monitor the other vessel but no risk of collision exists. You might be asked how you come to that conclusion and again the answer would be to recite a definition Rule 7 (d).
More to the point the attitude of our instructors was that having a working knowledge of the rules was required but not sufficient to understand them.
We were expected to know each rule by number , which rules covered ALL vessels as opposed to vessels in sight of each other, under sail and in poor visibility.
There was a specific formula for answering the oral examination questions so you could demonstrate you understood the tricky situations.
A bit of reading around legal cases involving ROR issues is a great “eye opener” .
best way to study rules is to take a practice exam, then go through every question you get wrong and look up the rule that pertains to that question so you understand the rule itself.
Probably the easiest module once you know it, and the most important one
Keep your chin up. Keep trying. Be a cowboy.