[CW] CW Digest, Vol 109, Issue 17

[N7DC]

The trouble is Hans, that the government publishes them, just as they 
have since they did away with Novice.  Almost every book I have seen, 
with the questions, also gives the answers.  The other trouble is, and I 
see this more important, the instructors who teach the test.   That is 
how you can get a dozen new Generals in something like a 6 hour class 
given on a lazy Saturday afternoon.  Done correctly, It takes more time 
than that.  My last multi day teaching of Novice was in the 1984 Boy 
Scout Jamboree,  I taught the subject - not the answers.  Teach someone 
how to work out the formula, and use it, for a 1/2 wave dipole, and they 
forever know it: not just the answer for the one frequency listed in the 
book.  It is just about as stupid as having a school teach one do a math 
equation in class, and use that same question for the tests, and follow 
that pattern over and over again.
> Donald Chester <mailto:k4kyv at charter.net>
> Wednesday, May 22, 2013 4:16 PM
> <<What is the purpose of the exam? So that we can test the subject matter
> knowledge, or to test if we can memorize the answers?
>
> PLEASE do not publish exam answers.
>
> 73, Hans, K0HB>>
>
> I looked over some of the questions in the pools on the FCC site. At first
> I didn't realise they gave the correct answer before each list of options,
> and I was enjoying using this as a quick review of electrical theory. 
> But as
> soon as it dawned on me they had the correct answer right at the top, 
> before
> the four choices, that ruined it for me, since I couldn't avoid 
> noticing the
> correct answer before reading all 4 options. I also noticed that an undue
> number of questions had the correct answer "all the above".
>
> Don
>
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