"Mike Coslo" wrote in message
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Bert Craig wrote:

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Bert Craig wrote:

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"Dwight Stewart" wrote



I've looked over the current written tests. I just don't see where

they're


lacking as far as the existing goals and purposes of the Amateur
Radio
Service are concerned.

Translation: "After over 6 years as a Technician, I've almost got the
General Class test memorized. Don't set me back by making me memorize
a
whole different set of questions."

73, de Hans, K0HB


"Hammer, meet nail."

When you're only tool is a hammer, everything looks like a nail! 8^)


Lol.


I don't even think we need to change the questions. Eliminate the

published

Q&A pools and reorder the answers, that'll do it.

Big deal! There will have to be a study guide, which will have the
answers in it in text form. I'd read it and know it. Probably quicker
and better than the pools


I'd bet you would too. I had a slightly unfair advantage, a college
avionics
curriculum that culminated in a GROL. However, in order to earn our
sheepskins, we had to pass screening exams...no published Q&A pools.
Same
applied to our FAA exams.


BTW, Bert, did you know that they change the order of the answers in the
actual test as compared to the question pool?


Didn't really notice. Once you review the Q&A pool, the correct answer
stands out like a sore thumb. I reviewed the Q&A pool twice and drove
and
hour so to Yonkers, NY...for approx. six minutes of actual exam time. (&
that gave me privies to 1500 Watts on 50 MHz and up?!)

Reminds me of the first time I took the General test. I got up early
and drove to the Hamfest in Butler PA from State College PA. Drank
several cups of coffee on the way. I took the writtens first, and no
problem acing it. Then the combination of the trip and too much coffee
kicked in as I sat down for the Morse code test. As they say in the
Bronx fuggitaboudit! So I had to wait a while for my ticket.

Which makes me wonder, I do not do Morse well under stress. I wonder how
some of those who had to do it under some awful condx ever managed.

- Mike KB3EIA -

I actually had a pretty good experience with Element 1...once it began. I
had actually kinda over-prepped and was getting pretty nervous. Dick, N0BK
(God rest his soul.) told me to stop practicing, get off my ar$e, and just
give it a whirl.

When I arrived, it was all I could do NOT to throw up, until the code
characters started flowing. I had practiced with the ARRL CD's and they
turned out to be a tad faster than the actual exam. It was like gettin'
ready to bat in the world series only to have the pitcher throw cantaloupe
sized balls in slow-motion...underhand. I went into immediate $hit-eating
grin mode.

Then there's gettin' OTA...whole 'nutha story. ;-)

73 de Bert
WA2SI