Thread: a question from my metal exam

I do hope the required answers to Q17 was a "screw pitch gauge used for determining the pitch of screw threads". Not a "thread gauge for measuring threads" which are different instruments used for a different purpose. I get fed up with people using the terms wrongly.

yes you are right,guess what i put

Originally Posted by schmierer LR at singleton

and then you have an internal or a depth micrometer.i have used these out the back shed in the school so im going to get them and show him.

when you do suggest that he alters his marking system in your favour or you might just insert one where the sun don't shine and he can finally get his guaged lol

i have been there suggesting a few times but he wont have a bar of it as soon as i mentioned it so im just moving on but i know a good present i can get him when i leave school

Perhaps I'm just being my usual pedantic basket self, but some of the questions and multiple choice answers show a lack of subject knowledge from whoever wrote or reviewed it.

For a few examples:

Q1:
Not very often are pipes tensioned and when it is necessary to do so, none of the tools among the choices are used for the task.

Q2:
The correct answer is not among the choices!

Q4:
The correct answer is not among the choices!

Q9:
The correct answer is not among the choices!

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Originally Posted by Bush65

Perhaps I'm just being my usual pedantic basket self, but some of the questions and multiple choice answers show a lack of subject knowledge from whoever wrote or reviewed it.

For a few examples:

Q1:
Not very often are pipes tensioned and when it is necessary to do so, none of the tools among the choices are used for the task.

Q2:
The correct answer is not among the choices!

Q4:
The correct answer is not among the choices!

Q9:
The correct answer is not among the choices!

...

I'd say that the correct answer to Q9 is (D) - but Q10 is a repeat of Q8, so obviously nobody does a lot in the way of "proof reading" when preparing these papers.

Definitely agree with you on Q's 1, 2 & 4 though.

Sort of gives a bit of insight into the standard of education these days.

i remember when i started and i saw Q1 and i went blank so i skipped it and came back to it at the end hoping something might jump out at me but it did not so i just had to eliminate the ones that were the definately wrong

Regarding Q9, from the choices given, 'D' engineering drawing is what they would want.

The correct answer should be detail drawing. My guess is they have confused technical (a generic term that covers all types of drawings for technical purposes) and engineering.

Engineering drawings are used to convey the information that the design engineer specifies to a design or detail drafter so that they can produce the detail and other drawings for construction.

Engineering drawings are normally only used for structural work. The structural engineers determine member sizes, orientation, fasteners, etc. that go on the engineering drawings. They never have enough information for a workshop.

Edit: there are many other types of technical drawings, for example:
General Arrangement
Assembly
Marking Plan
Schematic Diagrams
Line Diagrams
P & I D (process/piping & instrumentation diagram
etc.