easyJet Gatwick training, week 2 of 4, and the pace is faster than I expected. How do people keep up with the SEP volume?
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#1 Week 2 of the easyJet Gatwick course, different Emma from the other Emma on here, and I am posting because I want to know if it is me or if it is everyone.
The course is four weeks. Week 1 was induction and the basics and I thought it was manageable. Week 2 started SEP properly on Monday and by Wednesday we had covered the A320 doors, the A321 doors, the differences between the two, the emergency equipment locations for both, the evacuation commands, the slide procedures in normal and emergency mode, and the first block of the fire content. The exam on all of that is Friday. Pass mark 88.
I have been doing two hours a night and I feel like I am retaining half of it. The people who did a low cost carrier before seem fine. Those of us who came from other jobs (I was a dental receptionist) are struggling.
What I have tried: reading the manual, highlighting, rewriting notes. What I have not tried, because I do not know how: anything that actually works.
Questions for people who have done a four week course:
- Is the week 2 wall normal? Does it get better or is week 3 worse?
- What study method actually got the exact numbers in?
- How many resits are allowed at easyJet and what happens if you fail the resit?
- Did anyone go to the trainers and say they were struggling, and did that help or mark you?
I am not going to quit. I would just like to stop feeling like the slow one.
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#2 Finished the Edinburgh course this summer, four weeks, same structure. Week 2 is the wall for everyone who has not done it before, the ex crew are just hiding it better. Week 3 is first aid and security which are easier to learn because they are concrete. What worked: stop reading and start testing. Get the doors and equipment into flashcards (physical or an app) and test until you get 100 percent three times in a row. Reading feels productive and is not.
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#3 Cabin manager Manchester, five years, and I have seen every course since. Two resits per exam at ours, the second the following day. Fail both and you are off, but honestly the number of people who fail twice is tiny because the trainers can see who is struggling and will spend break times with you. Going to them is not marking yourself, it is the opposite. They remember the ones who asked.
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#4 @aviationamy that is genuinely what I needed to hear. I have been avoiding them because I thought asking looked weak.
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#5 The other Emma. Week 2 last year I cried in the car park on the Wednesday and passed the Friday exam at 94. It is the wall. The thing that flipped it for me was studying with two people from the course and testing each other out loud. My own head was the problem.
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#6 Bristol, and one more concrete tip: draw the aircraft. Both types, from memory, with every door, every extinguisher, every oxygen bottle, every first aid kit. Do it every night until it is automatic. The exam asks 'where is' as much as 'how many', and a drawing you have done ten times is a map in your head.
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#7 Luton, and I came from a warehouse job with no idea. I was you in week 2. I am fine now. The volume is the same for everyone, the ex crew just have the shape already. By week 4 you will have the shape too. Test, do not read.
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#8 Berlin base and the same course structure. Small thing: sleep. I did three hours a night in week 2 and got worse. Went to seven and got better. The numbers do not go in when you are exhausted.