Hello Students and welcome to the course.

Some starting thoughts for you.

General
The lessons are divided into the two specific exam contents IGC1 and IGC2. You can study the
lessons in any order so you may wish to start off with familiar topics to help you get into study
mode.

To access a lesson just click on its title and you will be shown the first page of that lesson. The
first page will tell you what you should be learning from this lesson. Once you have read through
this click the continue button at the bottom, to move to the next page.

There are PDFs of the lessons, IGC1 is after lesson 8 and IGC2 is after lesson 16. These can be
downloaded to your computer and read when you cannot access the internet or they can be
printed off so you can highlight the important points (from the syllabus - on the main topic outline
page) and make notes on - always beneficial for revision.

There will be questions throughout the lessons as little reminders of what you have just read.
Once these are answered correctly you will be allowed to move to the next page. If you do not
answer them correctly you will get another go (another useful revision method). There are grades
assigned to the questions but these are just for your own use and do not go towards your final
results (this is just from the two written exams and the practical) If you take more than one
attempt to answer the question then the system will take this into account when the scoring is
calculated so even though you get all the questions correct you may not score 100% and this
may be the reason why.

As this is elearning, the students fit their studies in around their working and home life so there is
no set timeframe for you to have completed a particular section. As long as you have fully
completed the course within the scheduled two year sign up period you can study as slowly or as
quickly as you like.

The first page of each lesson gives you the recommended study time for that particular lesson.
This will allow you to put together your own study program. So if you have a particular exam
period in mind this will allow you to see how many hours worth of study you have to do in that
period. You can then work out how many hours you would need to study each week in order to
fully cover the course content.

Revision
We have end of unit questions to attempt after each lessons (found in the resources section
along the right hand side of the screen on the main topic outline page). These are optional but
could be a good revision method.

We have included mock exams one for each section IGC1 and IGC2. The answers for these
show up once all the questions have been answered and the student clicks submit all and finish.
This allows the student to self analyse their answers to point out areas they may need to go back
into to revise.

We also include a NEBOSH style question each week via the tutor forum. These are called end
of week assessments. The students, once again if they wish to, answer on the forums and then
the following week the answers are given. Students who do respond will receive a personnel
email from me highlighting their likely scores and where they went wrong or what they gained
marks for. This is optional so if you have not yet reached the section which the question covers
then you can simply store the question and answer and build up a bank of questions for revising
from. Past questions are an excellent revision tool.

Exams
The exams are run every year in March, June, September and December.
When an exam registration period opens the information will be posted on the news forum. This
post will contain the email address to send your exam request to, what information to send along
with your request and the deadlines for registering.

You can either sit all exams in one exam sitting or can sit one exam at a time. You could study all
of IGC1 lessons (there are 8) and sit the IGC1 exam in the next exam period and then study
IGC2 lessons (once again there are 8) and sit the IGC2 at a further exam period. You can then do
the practical either on its own or with one of the other others. The only issue with this is that you
cannot sit the IGC3 (the practical) on its own first it must be sat with a written exam. So if you do
not have a set schedule of study and you think it might be a bit much to try and remember content
from 16 lessons then this is an option available to you.

Worth having a think about

If you have any questions or queries as you go through the lessons then please contact me
through the internal course message system (which is not automatic messenger), via email on
emma@sheilds.org or phone 01482 806805.