There is only one piece of advice I can give you this close to your exam, and that is to not waste a second of your time from now until you sit down to do the exam. Revise, revise, and revise!

You have to make opportunities to sit quietly somewhere and look at your Blackstone's, your notes, or anything else that will help you study.

Top Tip

It is far too late for any study top tips, but I will share with you piece of exam technique. I once marked a paper from a Sergeant to Inspector candidate who changed their mind so often most questions had three answers indicated and crossed out. In the end they wrote the correct answer option in the margin. Hopeless! Your paper is marked by a machine, and if it can't work out where your answer is you run the risk of missing out altogether. Mark one answer clearly, and in the style you are asked to do. In other words if it says make a cross DON'T make a tick. You will amazed how many people do not follow the guidelines.

Throughout this series of articles I have tried to point you in what I hope is the right direction and keep you working towards the ultimate goal of no more Blackstone's. The thoughts in these articles are really just my own and as I have said many times I know as much about what will be in your exam as you do. I have been helping police officers pass this exam for over 30 years, both from within and outside the Job, and that has always been my mantra; study the lot.

If you have started to study you have given yourself a good chance to pass as long as you keep it up. There is an awful lot of material to get through but we are now right at the end of the programme, there are just 5 days to go, and it will all be over.

Finally if you are having any problem with your studies please visit my web-site at www.executiveguidance.co.uk and use the Contact us page, I will get right back to you. Alternatively visit the OSPRE Part 1 forum on Police Oracle and if I can help you I will. That makes the assumption a knowledgeable officer reading the forum does not get there ahead of me.

This week's motivational quote is from another great sporting coach, from American Football, coach of the Green Bay Packers amongst others, Vincent T Lombardi he said;

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will"

If you have followed me, for the whole of this programme your will is not lacking.

All that remains is for me to wish you 'Good Luck' I just hope what we have done here has helped you.

Phil Waters

www.ospretraining.org

Other resources

On www.executiveguidance.co.uk there is a free download on exam technique which I do recommend that you read. I wrote it after many years of writing these articles and writing exams and marking them for police forces.

We have been getting some excellent feedback from those of you who have accepted our offer of a free lesson on our new on-line study tool www.opsretraining.org In the last few days before the exam this could provide you with an excellent respite from having your nose in a text book.