CPST Class Day 3

msg221

Well-known member
I. am. EXHAUSTED! :dizzy:We had our skills tests after lunch, so it was about 12:30 and hotter than you know what outside, even though we were in a covered parking garage!! By the time I finished I was so sweaty I was just dripping. It only makes me dread having to be in the heat tomorrow for the car seat check. Thankfully it is in the morning and is supposed to be over by noon.

Anyway, I cursed the Evenflo Titan Elite because you have to have toddler size hands to get the seatbelt through the belt path so I ended up gouging my wrist on the plastic and bled. I also fought with getting the seat compressed down enough so I could re-buckle the seat when I had to demonstrate that I could use a locking clip properly.

But the fun part was getting to work with seats I hadn't used before like the Chicco Key Fit and the Nautilus. I was happy that there were seats that I was very familiar with like a MA and a SS1.

Anyway, the day went great because I took the final written exam and got 100% on that one too so overall I got perfect scores on all the written exams.

We had to fill out evaluation forms about the course and the instructors. The instructors were great and the only suggestion I had was that when setting up the vehicles for the skills tests, if it's in the covered parking garage, to make sure that the cars are parked in a more lit area because I had a hard time seeing that the harness straps weren't routed through the correct slots because the straps were black and it was dark and hard to see where they were routed. I had to carefully feel them to see where they were routed even though they didn't want us to touch anything for fear that we'd end up "making" a misuse on something that wasn't before!

I'm glad I took the course and decided to do this. Now I just have to do the seat check tomorrow and then I will be official!
 
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sunnymw

New member
Awesome!!!!!! I am hoping to take a class sometime this winter (when it will be a decent temperature here!) and I am sooo excited!!
 

sunnymw

New member
How hard are the written exams? Are they the type of questions that you'd just know after hanging around on cs.o for two years?
 

msg221

Well-known member
The written exams weren't overly hard and yes, you could answer some of them with the knowledge you have gained from this site. But they allowed you to use your student manual if you needed (open book tests) although they did such a good job of reviewing material before our exams that I never needed to refer to the manual. There were True/False, mutliple choice and a couple of fill in the blank questions. Fifty questions total over 3 exams.
 

emtb79

New member
Those misuse skills test coupled with lack of sleep driving 2.5+ hours on the beltway. It took me a long time on one stinking vehicle.
 
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msg221

Well-known member
Same thing happened to me. They tried to show how one of the seats was installed with both LATCH and the seatbelt, but it was so darn hard to see the bottom LATCH anchor straps plus they just looked like part of the seatbelt that it took me forever to figure it out! It was the combination of that evil Evenflo Titan Elite seat and a dark spot in the parking garage where they parked the vehicle.
 

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