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In addition, the ACs are required to give
candidates one day to familiarise
themselves with the AC’s simulators.
In 2019, MARINA amended, through its
STCW Circulars 2018-09 and 2019-08,
some elements of the practical
assessment system, which was called
the ‘new system’ and started to be
implemented by ACs in the second half
of 2019.
The three visited ACs had been
accredited for the new system and their
practical scenarios had been approved
by the Boards of Examiners, although
they were still conducting practical
assessment under the old system. The
monitoring conducted by MARINA is
therefore not effective and breaches
the obligations required by Regulation
I/6.1 of the STCW Convention.
This new system required the
authorised ACs to develop six simulator
practical scenarios per function for
each CoC level (operational and
management) and department (deck
and engine).
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The practical assessment sessions are
required to be held on the following day
and to cover all functions at the level of
the CoC concerned. Under the old
system, the practical assessment for
deck officers at management level
required the conduct of practical
scenarios over two consecutive days,
while the new system requires the
practical assessment for such officers to
be completed in one day.
These ACs implemented a QMS
designed to cover all the activities
concerning the practical assessment of
candidates for CoCs.
KEY AREA 3
All the 3 visited ACs conducted the
practical
assessment
generally
following the ‘competence mapping’.
The practical assessment is mostly
based on simulator exercises, called
‘practical scenarios’, which were
designed by the ACs and approved by
MARINA’s Boards of Examiners. In
addition,
there
were
several
competences
which
required
laboratory demonstrations by the
candidates,
while
some
other
competences were assessed through
an oral question and answer procedure,
although the latter were categorised as
“practical assessment”.
