How To Answer COLREGS Lights Questions
COLREGS lights answers need to be confident, concise & precise.
One of the first COLREGS questions that you'll get in your MCA Orals Exam is lights. This can often feel very intimidating but don't worry. Although there are a few exceptions that you'll just need to remember, we can break the rest down into memorable...
How To Pass Your MCA Oral Exam – #5 – Don’t Panic!
How To Pass Your MCA Oral Exam – #4 – Practice Out Loud
Your MCA oral exam is, as the name suggests, spoken. It's a bit like an interview, really and it's critically important to practice speaking out loud.
We tell our clients that it is 50% confidence and 50% competence. Maybe that's a bit of an exaggeration but the difference between a correct answer presented confidently, precisely...
How To Pass Your MCA Oral Exam – #3 – Use Orals Reports
For those that are unfamiliar, an orals report is the beer-stained, bleary-eyed rememberings of those that have gone before. While that may not sound hugely appealing, they are an invaluable resource for understanding the questions that are in fashion in each centre/with each examiner and therefore might appear in your exam.
In our opinion, they are...