Hi everyone,
I've only just joined the site and have seen that there is plenty of threads regarding past exam papers.
Most of these seem to be the ITEC ones.
I was just wondering if anyone knew whether there was any available LSSM past papers - I'm assuming that they would differ slightly from the ITEC????
Or even just a few pointers as to the standard of the questions would be great.
Thanks is advance
Rich
RE: LSSM past exam papers
It is over six years since I took the LSSM exam, but two fairly typical questions on my course were:
1) A woman with a computer-based office job has felt aching and stiffness in her neck and shoulders for a month, and also gets frequent headaches. her doctor has told her that it is caused by tension and there is nothing structurally wrong with her neck What do you see as being the likely cause of her problem and how would you deal with it?
2) A young sportsman was exercising again 2 weeks after spraining his ankle when he strained a calf muscle on the same leg. What was the likely cause of this and how could you treat and advise him?
Alan
RE: LSSM past exam papers
Cheers Alan that is much appreciated.
Just out of interest, and I appreciate that it was 6 years ago you did your course,did they cover any of the theory style questions in the lead up to the exams?
RE: LSSM past exam papers
yes : we had four papers at intervals duringour course, which form a small part of the overall mark: LSSM students are classified as distinction (80%+), credit (70-79%), pass (60-69%) or fail. The first of these four papers was devoted to A & P, but the other three all included some of these essay-type questions as well as some factual A & P questions.
Alan
RE: LSSM past exam papers
It sounds as though they've tweaked it slightly.
They still have the four assignment papers - I've done two of them and am currently working on the other two - one of which is purely A&P.
They've dropped the distinction, crdit, pass, and fail marking system now - it is just a pass or fail. From what was explained at the start of the coursethe pass or failmarking system was adoptedso that those with a strong theory background did not gain adistinct advantage over those with no backgroundof the theorybutcould be better at the practical and still come outwith a loweroverall mark and obviously on the opposite side of that a student could be very strong on the theory but couldn't actually perform a decent massage- if that makes any sense at all.