Nsg 6001 Week 5 Final Exam

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The final examination period for day and evening classes is Monday, Dec. 9, 2024 through Sunday, Dec. 15, 2024. Weekend classes, including Friday after 5 p.m., will hold exams during the weekend of Dec. 13-15, 2024, at their regularly scheduled class meeting times. Instructors for short-term courses (courses that don't meet the full term) should be holding their exams during the last class meeting for the course.

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My 2017 exam was in the shadow of having an emergency operation to remove a dead gall bladder in Italy two months earlier. I did OK in a mock a month before the exam and so gave it a shot but got the same result as in 2016, despite identifying far more wines correctly on the white wines paper than in previous years. That was deeply puzzling but I had a good excuse: I was not as fully recovered as I thought I was.

First of all, I organised myself. I am a bit self-conscious about this but I wrote a goal for the year and set myself SMART targets. I had a checklist of things to do for each week and, most importantly, used it for the first two-thirds of the year. (I am so much better at writing plans than sticking to them!) Here is an example of a weekly checklist:

I got off to a good start. I was surprised and really upset to do as badly in my 2017 exams as in previous years, despite having made progress outside of the exam setting. I used that energy to tackle the new year and to organise myself as I have explained. My mentor Anne McHale MW was great in bolstering that positive outlook in my first meeting with her at the beginning of the year.

In addition, not counted in the total below, with my work at the WSET I have been hugely fortunate to visit the winemaking regions of Campania and Basilicata (four days), Trentino-Alto Adige (three days), the Western Cape of South Africa (10 days) and Alsace (three days). There is nothing like being in the region to understand its wines in-depth.

So on this reckoning, I have devoted and mostly enjoyed 35 full days in this academic year to MW study. This plus many hours on my two-hour a day commute and at weekends. I owe a debt to the WSET for supporting me on the formal study days above. Even more, as always, I owe my biggest debt to Janet for her practical and thoughtful help, for example in creating blind tasting flights and in challenging my habit of jumping to conclusions. More broadly she has found creative ways for us as a couple to make real positives out of this obsession of mine and has lived with remarkable grace with the downsides too.

If you are going to taste all 12 wines first and then write about them and the wines come in flights of between one and six wines, you have to calculate where you should be by the end of each flight. I did that, tasted the wines, lost confidence on the finer points of the first flight and so started writing about flight 2 onwards. This meant that my worked-out timings were useless and inevitably I spent too long on the six-wine second flight. Consequently, I was in a mad rush for wines one to four which I had left to last. This was so annoying and shows that succeeding is as much about mental agility and time management, as about tasting and arguing a case. Low point of the week and slept badly.

The standard advice is to think carefully about tasting order. It is sensible to taste dry before sweet, lower-alcohol wine before higher alcohol and perhaps sparkling wines before others. But, on the back of day 1, I just answered them in the order set, happily (?) jumping from sparking to sweet to fortified to dry. My timing was pretty much bang on. So, again, this exam tests whether you can jettison one really good piece of advice in favour of something else which on the day is even more important. End of day 3: totally exhausted. Had two pints of beer with lunch, fell asleep twice in the afternoon for 30-40 minutes each and then still slept like the dead for 10 hours!

I did much better in the 2018 exams than in previous attempts but still not pass. I even got two C+ grades (60-64) which is the grade just below the line for passing. As a result, I found myself with another year of study/tasting/refining my exam technique, much helped by a new mentor, Richard Hemming MW. His biggest contribution was rapidly commenting in detail on answers I had prepared which was exactly what I needed.

Being an MW student has been a great adventure for me and I have learnt and enjoyed (most of) it so much! The reason I did it was because doing the MW was the way I could learn most about wine while being based here in England and while being in a non-wine job, as I was then. In these terms, it has been a huge success, plus all the other wonderful things along the way, whatever the exam result.

GARMISCH PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany (May 12, 2017) - Language instructors from 13 NATO and partner nations completed a three-week Advanced Language Testing Seminar at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies' Partner Language Training Center Europe (PLTCE) that will improve communications between English-speaking partners in the NATO alliance.

"The value of standardized testing has been the topic of heated debate for the past few years. But standardized language proficiency testing is imperative to NATO inter-operability. It plays a vital role in the combined operational effectiveness of the military forces of the Alliance," said Roxanne Harrison, PLTCE program manager.

English is the primary operational language of the NATO alliance and each job assignment is given a required level of proficiency called a standard language profile, or SLP. The SLP is determined through the STANAG 6001 language test. This seminar helped to ensure that SLP test scores from one country are the same as test scores from another country.