I was hired on to a railroad back in mid april. Spent a lot of time preparing for the life of being a conductor. In and out side of the class room. Finish the first part and the exam, did the on the job training. It was great! I performed the critical tasks. Helped with switching and organizing cars in a yard honestly a lot more than I should have as a part one conductor trainee

I had two more exams. signals and part two.

Part 1 exam is 90% to pass Signals 100% Part 2 exam 90%

You would think that for signals, being that you require 100% that you would get the most time to study and to be able successfully do the test.

But we only spent about 8 hours over the last week on signals as we moved straight into CTC.

Honestly I feel kind of cheated

Because with the score that I have it's not like I don't understand the fundamentals it's just I realistically need more time and possibly some practical application to be able to get the score needed.

Suggestions for improvement

The on-the-job portion for 3 weeks needs to be more streamlined in that everyone gets a taste of how everything should operate some days you should get on the road some days you should get in the yard. Some people in the class only got on the road jobs. While the majority of other people only got yard switching/brakeman jobs while doing OJT.

But because of two questions railroading is entirely not for me

Not looking for sympathy just a voice

Edit: 1 more info below

This was CP

The test was also apparently leaked online, that we were supposed to get today. so they very quickly made a new one.

People who work at CN also failed the test that was in my class.

The questions i got wrong was a single yellow dwarf signal

And a red yellow red signal