Pancyprian Technical School English (4-hour) case studies
Pancyprian Technical School English (4-hour) · Put your knowledge to work in context.
The Pancyprian Technical School English examination is a four-hour English test used within Cyprus's Pancyprian examination system for technical and vocational secondary students. It assesses whether a candidate can use English to understand technical texts, follow workplace instructions, handle terminology from their trade area, and communicate clearly in writing - the kind of English needed in workshops, on site, in laboratories, and in further technical study. The Pancyprian Technical School English (4-hour) case studies are 7 cases and about 5,428 words.
1Cold Room 3: Reading a Service Bulletin Against the Log
You are an apprentice refrigeration technician at a fish-processing plant near Larnaca. Cold room 3 must hold −18 °C.
832 words, about 4 min2The Job Card with Four Wrong Notes in the Margin
You are a third-year electrical installation student on work placement with a contractor fitting out a metalwork shop in Nicosia. Your foreman hands you a handwritten job card for a new radial socket circuit: three 16 A double socket outlets, 2.5 mm² twin-and-earth cable, protected by a 16 A Type B MCB, with 30 mA RCD protection at the origin.
612 words, about 3 min3The Handover Note the Client Will Read
You work on the mechanical maintenance team at a bottling plant in Limassol. At the end of the night shift you must send a handover note to the day-shift supervisor and to the client's engineer.
915 words, about 5 min4Restoring the Missing Words in a Welding Procedure
You are a welding trainee at a ship repair yard in Limassol. Your instructor has given you page 2 of the company's welding procedure specification (WPS) for manual metal arc welding of 8 mm mild steel plate, but the file was converted from a scanned document and eight words dropped out.
679 words, about 3 min5The Bearings with the Wrong Bore
You are the maintenance and stores liaison at a small agricultural machinery workshop in Paphos. On Tuesday 10 March a delivery, DN-4471, arrived against order PO-2098 for 24 tapered roller bearings, part number 30206, needed to service six feed-mixer gearboxes.
884 words, about 4 min6The Radio Call at Bay 12
Your training group at Limassol port is being assessed on VHF radio communication. You hear the following exchange on the working channel between a quay crane driver and a banksman at bay 12: Banksman: 'Crane 4, Crane 4, banksman at bay 12.
615 words, about 3 min7The Isolator Nobody Locked
You are the maintenance planner at a bakery in Nicosia. On Friday 14 February an electrician was replacing the bearing in the planetary head of dough mixer 2 during the Friday night production gap.
891 words, about 4 min