[CW] CW Digest, Vol 109, Issue 17

[Kate Hutton]

I agree with you on that one.  I have seen plenty of new Techs come out of
those classes who have no idea how to operate their new HT.  If they don't
take the initiative to get an Elmer, they lose interest very quickly.

73 Kate K6HTN

On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 2:59 PM, N7DC <n7dc at comcast.net> wrote:

>
>
>
> 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 <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 PLEASE do not publish exam answers.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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