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Senior Map Reading Test Paper - 1963

Courtesy of Dennis Summers

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2     2.  Your compass has an ICE of 2° E. You have to make a march by night along the following route:-   Leg 1. Bend in track at 759800 to Building at 759815;   Leg 2. To Trig Point 756823;   Leg 3. To Road Junction 777815.   (a)  Mark this route on your map.   (b)  On what compass bearings will you march on each leg?   (c)  What is the distance of each leg     (i) in yards,     (ii) in paces?   (d)  Where is the steepest gradient on Leg 2 and what is the gradient?       3.  A parachutist, dropped during the night, tries to pinpoint his position at dawn. His compass is accurate. He identifies the following three points on the compass bearings given:-   High Ground at 746818; Compass Bearing 313°.   Railway Station at 822790; Compass Bearing 5°.   Wireless Aerial Mast at 791764; Compass Bearing 281°.   Plot these bearings on your map. Show all your working in your A.B. 4.   (a)  Where is the parachutist?   (b)  How could he confirm his position without further use of his compass?       4.  Some canoeists are going to paddle down the Forth and Clyde Canal from the road bridge at 737774 to the road bridge at 912819.   (a)  What distance will they travel?   (b)  Describe that part of the route between the road bridge (824801) and the road bridge (876803) noting the natural and man made features immediately adjacent to the canal.   (c)  On the first three miles of the route there are no locks but on the last three there are many. Why is this?   (d)  If the canoeists average 2¼ m.p.h., including halts for all purposes, how long will the journey take?   (e)  What is the height above mean sea level at the start of the journey and at the end?

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