I hope you get a better result than you think, but even if you don't pass, you have all the sign knowledge you got from the course. Will have my fingers crossed for you.
Yeah but I won't be able to continue onto level 3 like I planned. I'm NOT going back to level 2 classes, they bored me shitless and were exhausting. I don't feel anything we were taught was helpful for the reception part of the exam. CACDP videos aren't great either.
I wish the BDA would get their collective BigD heads out of their arses and sort their sign language courses out. Not that I have hope that they will be any less disorganised and obscure than the CACDP.
I failed my exam last year, although I believe only very near miss. I missed the name of the aunt in the crappy story they signed - what's worse, the name was only MEG. Three effing letters! That's basic by level 1 standards - pahhh. They did try and trap me (and the others) by switching their "aunt" sign mid-way through to one I didn't recognise, but luckily I stopped them and they clarified it. I think he said it was a Welsh sign - bollocks more like. (the sign was as if you were pretending your left hand was a piece of paper and your right was a pair of scissors, and cutting the paper. Not anything like the "aunt" I know!)
Interesting that you say they switched signs. I think they did that to me and I completely missed it. I realised hours later that the story was about a boy. I got all distracted by trying to have e i fun with the name Ellie which was the name of someone in the story... My partner who did the exam immediately before me says that she pulled them up on a weird sign, so that'll have been it.
It is hard because I've only had mock exams with people whose sign I knew well. I changed tutor this year because my old tutor was too easy to understand for me. I don't find the practice videos helpful either, too small and chromaphasey for me.
I wish the CACDP would join the 21st Century and learn how to film people without it looking like some 80s amateurish home-video job. Especially considering the prices of their stuff.
Yeah, prices are ridiculous?! Work refuse to buy them in for the library too, which is complete stupidness. Another thing I missed in my exam was the end of their story - it was about an aunt visiting for a holiday in a big town and she was used to living on a farm. At the end I thought they said something about her going to a camera shop (?) and when they asked what they'd said, I just repeated the signs I saw them do and they seemed to approve, even though I didn't know what I said! It was only afterwards that someone else explained - the aunt had taken a photo of the shop because it was so huge and she was impressed! Ahh...clear as dishwater.
I had my BSL class this morning and found it hard - we were putting newspaper articles into BSL and putting stories into chronological order - it was challenging!
Your sign lessons sounds interesting. I got sick of our sign classes. I spent a lot of the time feeling like I wasn't learning anything except how to get a headache in the crappy college room with poor lighting and nasty chairs.
I find the whole level 2 thing very fake, it doesn't feel real and isn't like 'real deaf people' at all. I haven't learned any grammar and not enough work on stuff like multichannel signs. I don't feel I understand them, and certainly can't replicate many of them.
It does sound a bit cocked up - maybe if lots of people fail (as they did at my work last year) you could all appeal and point out the problem with lighting/room layout?
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I wish the BDA would get their collective BigD heads out of their arses and sort their sign language courses out. Not that I have hope that they will be any less disorganised and obscure than the CACDP.
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It is hard because I've only had mock exams with people whose sign I knew well. I changed tutor this year because my old tutor was too easy to understand for me. I don't find the practice videos helpful either, too small and chromaphasey for me.
I wish the CACDP would join the 21st Century and learn how to film people without it looking like some 80s amateurish home-video job. Especially considering the prices of their stuff.
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I had my BSL class this morning and found it hard - we were putting newspaper articles into BSL and putting stories into chronological order - it was challenging!
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I find the whole level 2 thing very fake, it doesn't feel real and isn't like 'real deaf people' at all. I haven't learned any grammar and not enough work on stuff like multichannel signs. I don't feel I understand them, and certainly can't replicate many of them.
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