Guide to Revising

Revision – funnel your knowledge…

🧠 “Build your revision like a funnel — start wide with full notes, narrow it down to a clear guide, then finish with a short summary to keep the key points sharp for your practical.”

Revision process

🛠️ PREP STAGE – NOTES 

Collect everything you need. 

💡 BOOST STAGE – GUIDE 

Streamline what matters. 

🎯 LAUNCH STAGE – SUMMARY 

Focus on the essentials for your practical.

In farming terms….

“Grow your knowledge, harvest your confidence!”

• 🌱 Notes – Sowing ideas 
• 🌾 Guide – Growing understanding 
• 🚜 Summary – Harvesting key points
  

General Farm Worker Revision Tasks

Knowledge Revision – go to now

General Farm Worker Practice Questions

Practice Questions – go to now

Try and many times as you like will get different set of questions every time

Practical Revision

EPA Practical Tasks – Revision and guide – go to now

🌾 Level 2 General Farm Worker – EPA Revision Notes

“What you need to know before the assessor turns up”         
                                                                                                                                             
🚜 1. OPERATE A VEHICLE (Tractor / ATV + attachment)

🧠 What the assessor is really looking for
You’re not just “driving a tractor” — you’re showing:

• Safe thinking
• Control under normal farm pressure
• Correct hookup + shutdown routine
• Awareness of surroundings

✅ Step-by-step checklist
👀 Before you start (Risk + checks)
Do a dynamic risk assessment (look around, think: what could go wrong?)
Check:

• Tyres / tracks
• Lights / beacons
• Oil, fuel, coolant – 🧤 gloves on
• Brakes + steering
• Confirm area is safe (people, animals, obstacles)

👉 Links to: K1, K5, S1, Duty 5
🔗 Attaching equipment (THIS is where people lose marks)

• Reverse slowly and accurately
• Connect:
  • 3-point linkage OR
  • drawbar OR
  • ball hitch
• Secure:
  • Pins in place
  • PTO guarded if used
• Do a “tug test” check

👉 Examiner thought: “Would I trust them not to drop a trailer on someone’s foot?” 
🚜 Operating (30 minutes minimum)

• Smooth driving (no jerky control)
• Safe speed for conditions
• Constant awareness:
• livestock
• gates
• uneven ground
• Use correct route and turning technique

👉 Links: S5, Duty 5, Duty 6
📴 Shut down

• Park safely (flat ground if possible)
• Lower attachments
• Handbrake on
• Engine off, keys out
• Walk around final check

⚠️ Common mistakes
Forgetting pre-checks (instant red flag)
Loose hitch pins
Driving too fast “to impress”
Poor observation at junctions/gates

🚶‍♂️ 2. FARM WALK + INFRASTRUCTURE MAINTENANCE

🧠 What this is really testing
Can you notice problems before they become expensive problems?
Can you think like a stockperson + land manager?
👀 Farm walk checklist
🐄 Biosecurity & Welfare check

• Biosecurity:
• boots clean?
• no cross-contamination risk?

Animals: – THIS WILL BE TESTED MORE IN NEXT TASK

• lame?
• coughing?
• stressed?
• Housing:
• dry bedding?
• ventilation?

👉 Links: K2, K3, S2, Duty 2, Duty 10
🌱 Environmental awareness
Look for:

• slurry runoff risk
• damaged gates/fences
• water pollution risks
• poaching of ground

👉 Links: K6, Duty 6 + 9
🔧 Maintenance task (you MUST do one)

Examples:

• Fix fence wire / electric fence check
• Repair gate latch
• Basic machinery check (oil, bolts, leaks)

👉 Links: S8, Duty 8, K18

⚠️ Common mistakes

• Walking past problems instead of reporting/fixing
• Ignoring biosecurity (mud / MANURE = marks lost fast)
• Not explaining what you see

🐖 🐄 🐂 🐑 3. LIVESTOCK MOVEMENT + CARE (Group of 4+ animals)
🧠 What assessor wants to see

• Calm handling (not chasing, shouting, chaos)
• Understanding animal behaviour
• Safe restraint technique

🐖 🐄 🐂 🐑 Step-by-step
👀 Health + environment check
Are animals:

• eating?
• alert?
• moving normally?
• Housing:
• clean?
• dry?
• enough space?

👉 Links: K20, S3, S9, Duty 1, 3
🚶 Moving animals 🐖 🐄 🐂 🐑

• Calm pressure, no rushing
• Use gates properly
• Work as a group (don’t split herd badly)
• Keep stress LOW

👉 Links: S4, Duty 4
🪢 Restraint (minimum 4 animals)

• Safe handling system used correctly
• Controlled restraint (not forceful)
• Animal calmness maintained

🛏 Bedding up (unassisted)

• Clean, dry bedding added
• Even distribution
• Animal comfort prioritised

👉 Links: Duty 3, S3

⚠️ Common mistakes
Too fast = stressed animals = lost marks
Poor gate control
Unsafe restraint positioning
 
🐖 🐄 🐂 🐑 LIVESTOCK PATHWAY ASSESSMENT TASK
🧠 What you’re proving
You can THINK like a stockperson
You can identify problems early
🔍 What to check

• Body condition
• Lameness
• Appetite
• Behaviour changes
• Clean water access
• Feeding suitability

🍽 Feed & water

• Is feed suitable for stage of production?
• Is water:
  • clean?
  • accessible?
  • enough?

👉 Links: K11, S11, Duty 12

⚠️ Big fail risk
Not spotting subtle illness
Not linking condition to welfare need

 
🌾 🌽 🥔 🌱 🌻 CROP PATHWAY ASSESSMENT TASK – CROP WALK + SOIL SAMPLING
🧠 What assessor wants
You understand crop health is not guesswork
You use observation + sampling
🌾 Crop walk checklist

Look at 2 crop types:

• growth stage
• colour
• pest damage
• weed pressure
• disease signs

👉 Links: K13, S15, Duty 16

🌍 Soil sampling (4 samples minimum)
Step-by-step

• Divide field logically
• Take consistent depth samples
• Label correctly
• Avoid contamination
• Record location clearly

👉 Links: K14, S13

⚠️ Common mistakes
Random sampling (not representative)
No labels (instant problem) Poor explanation of findings

🧠 FINAL “ASSOCIATE TRICK” CHEAT SHEET
If you remember nothing else, remember this:
🚜 Vehicle task = SAFETY + CONTROL + ROUTINE
🚶 Farm walk = AWARENESS + MAINTENANCE + BIOSECURITY
🐑 Livestock = CALM HANDLING + WELFARE + OBSERVATION
🌱 Crops = DETAIL + SAMPLING + RECORDING

🎯 WHAT THE ASSESSOR IS SECRETLY SCORING
(Not written on your sheet… but absolutely happening)
Would I trust you alone on a farm?
Do you spot problems early?
Do animals stay calm around you?
Do you follow systems or guess?
Do you think before acting?