"Michael Coslo" wrote in message
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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 -


Mike,

I believe what the gentleman was trying to convey is that the present day
tests are a total farce. The answer is readly available and it is just a
"formality" to even pass it.

You said you compaired some of the older tests. Just how far back did you
go? The commenter was obviously refering to those tests given in the 50 and
60. I like to call it the error of "BB" . You know....before Bash. If you
don't know what I am refering to, then you had no right to comment the way
you did.

Have a nice day.

Dan/W4NTI