Cmd Buzz Corey wrote:

John Smith wrote:

... the "anateur exams" are certainly no hinderence, they always have
been as simple as pie--a college grad trained in the art of "test
taking" could study for a day and pass the most challenging


I think you need to go back and look at the early exams. There was a
time when an applicant was required to actually draw a schematic of
various circuits and explaine how they worked.

Is that supposed to be hard?


And even after the exams
became multiple choice type, one had to know the material to get the
correct answer as the answers to the acutal questions were not
available.

Yeah. You'll find that question pool bugaboo in a lot of fields these
days, including fields where if a person makes a mistake because of not
knowing the material, lives may be lost.





There were study guides with sample questions, but no
questions pools with the exact answer available for memorization.

Now if you want *really* hard, make it no study guide, no question
pool, and the applicant has to do all the learning research with NO idea
of what is on the test! 8^)

If you
did not know the theory, then you probably weren't going to pass.
Again john smith knows not of what he speaks.

I took the tests from the question pools. For me, they were all pretty
easy. They were not easy because of the question pools. They were easy
because they were fairly basic material.

What I have seen of the earlier test is that they too were pretty
basic. Any difference is not so great that those who came before need
not feel any superiority.


I aced the Technician test with the only study being the safety questions.

I did study a bit for the General.

For the Extra, I spent a week taking the on-line tests. Questions that
I knew the answer to, I got right of course.

Those that I got wrong earned me a trip to the books or online to find
out why I got it wrong. By the time I was finished, I aced the test just
about every time on line, and then in the actual test.

And I knew the material.

Elapsed time, one week.

Now the Morse code was another thing entirely. That was hard.

But then I'm just a dum nickel extra! ;^)

- Mike KB3EIA -