I was an Electro-Technical Cadet once. When it came time to prepare for the MMD oral exam, I ran into a wall that every ETO cadet hits: there is simply nothing to study from.
The written exam? Manageable, question papers repeat and you can work backwards. But the oral examination is a different beast. There is no official syllabus. No structured notes. Just a surveyor across the table who can ask you anything within Function 5, and you either know it or you don't.
So I did what a determined cadet would do. I collected every surveyor question I could find, from seniors, from forums, from candidates who had just come out of their orals. I sorted them. I categorized them. I mapped out the 23 core topics that everything falls under.
Then I built notes around those topics. Organized around exactly what surveyors actually ask. The notes I wish I had when I was preparing. I shared it freely, as my contribution back to the ETCO community.
As the project grew, so did what it needed. A team formed around it: more content, more structure, CoC oral and written prep, and now a dedicated Sponsorship Preparation track for the interview and job-hunting phase. Maintaining and expanding this properly has a real cost, and the subscription model is how we keep building it without cutting corners.
The mission is the same as day one: give every ETO cadet the best possible shot at cracking their exam. More content than ever, better organized, and always growing.
The Elec-Buddy Team
Started by a cadet, grown into a team · ETO CoC · India