failure

I may have thought I was finished my Statement of Equivalence for the local professional association, the BPS, but I was wrong. I got my results today, just short of the 1 January deadline by which they'd promised them, and they'd failed me! I was steaming.

Worse still, they failed me on just one subsection of an essay on professional issues... the mark for that subsection: 49%. The pass mark is 50%.

Admittedly, they've passed me on everything else, I can re-submit that section, and the resubmission fees are only £32, as it transpires. That's a small amount compared to the £1000 direct cost of the process to date. But it is still most irritating. I hate to have failed, even that one section. It's been a while, at least for anything of significance, I concede. And the conclusion on discussion is that the 49% mark is probably no coincidence... they deliberately selected it to fail me on that section in order to “teach me a lesson”.

The analysis of my boss, probably on the money I think, is that for this subsection of the essay I wrote only 833 words where there was a 1000 word limit. The implication? That I was not taking the process seriously enough, and didn't give the essay my absolute full effort, as if I had I would have used close to the entire word limit. And if that's the case, in a way the examiner is right. For the record, I thought that the ability to write meaningfully on the four topics in 1000 words each was extremely limited, rendering the process fairly vacuous. So it would appear they correctly perceived my attitude towards that part of the required work. Well done. And so now I am now being taught a lesson.

I can re-submit by the 20th of any month, after which it will take them three months to examine my resubmission. This means that by the time I hear back with the final result I shall be well installed back in New Zealand, where my at long last achieved Chartered Status in the UK will mean... squat. Isn't it ironic. I contemplated simply pulling out of the process, but at this point a little more work is worth it, principally as it keeps a door open. But hgnnnhhhhh...

Meanwhile, for something that won't ever fail, check out my Brownie recipe, just uploaded. I've developed this recipe myself after careful research, trial and error. Guaranteed to please, a must for every Christmas Day dessert menu. Just don't be counting cholesterol, saturated fats, calories, or virtually anything else... But trust me, you won't regret it!   : )