The main reason for this is\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\nAny installation designed before January 2019 would only need to comply with the 17th Edition. Meaning, you could be installing to the 17th Edition well into the 2020s and even beyond.<\/p>\n
And for anyone already with the 17th Edition including Amendment 3\u2026<\/p>\n
There\u2019s usually an overlap period, as electricians are not expected to drop everything and head for the exam centres on the 1st of January 2019.
\nPlus, going off experience, the City & Guilds 2382-19? exam won\u2019t be available till well after that date.<\/p>\n
Qualified Supervisors, you\u2019d probably be expected to update sometime during 2019 and within 2020 at the latest. The same goes for small business owners and JIB electricians – agency sparks, subcontractors etc. \u2018Don\u2019t forget to update your JIB card\u2019.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s easier…<\/strong><\/p>\nWhat I mean is, I\u2019ve recently been going through the draft copy of BS7671 18th Edition and apart from it having around two hundred and fifty more pages (50% bigger). There\u2019s plenty of new regulations, including a whole new part, \u2018Part 8 \u2013 Energy Efficiency\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cI won\u2019t bore you with all the details of the new book for now, I\u2019ll save that for a future post.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n
This means that they are not just going to have to rewrite the whole exam for the 18th Edition, mainly to include the addition of Part 8, but the whole exam will have to be reconfigured.<\/p>\n
This could mean a re-jig of the current exam with fewer questions on say Parts 4 and 5 or even the possibility of additional questions, raising the number of exam questions to above the current sixty.<\/p>\n
The 18th Edition exam will be based on a bigger book with more pages to reference than the 17th Edition and in all likelihood, there will be more questions too.<\/p>\n
However, there\u2019s usually an update exam which will be opportunity for people who already have the 17th Edition up to Amendment 3 to take a shorter exam that\u2019s just based on the changes introduced to the 18th Edition of BS 7671<\/p>\n
In my opinion, passing the 17th and then the passing the 18th Edition update exam will be easier than completing the whole of the 18th Edition exam in one go.
\nSo, the 17th Edition will be relevant well after January 2019, and passing it before then will make it easier to get your 18th Edition when the time comes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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