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January 24th 07, 03:05 AM
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Those Old Study Guides
"Bob Brock" wrote in
: wrote in message oups.com... Bob Brock wrote: wrote in message ups.com... Mike Coslo wrote: wrote in ups.com: Want to see a summary of the old study guides, and some sample questions? I'll post them if you are interested. Always am. Here's a sample - lots more to come. From the 1976 ARRL License Manual: Study Question #31: Well, I can see why those types of questions are no longer being used. It's more about who is giving the tests than it is about who is taking it. Every tried grading essay questions? Yes - but you missed the point, Bob. In 1976 the tests were all multiple-choice, same as today, except that most of them were 5 choices rather than 4. But the FCC-provided *study guides* were in essay format, as given above. The exact Q&A were not publicly available - at least not officially. 73 de Jim, N2EY Yeah, but then there were all those "unofficial" question pools. The same thing is done with the "General Contractors" exam here. For a fee, you can know what questions are on the various exams and hence have a study guide. Whether it's sanctioned or not, it would still happen. I'll bet that the truth be told, there were some underground copies of test questions available even back then. You know, if everyone in the club came back an just wrote down the questions that they remember, it wouldn't take long to cover over 90 percent of the pool of questions. Perhaps the FCC study guides were in essay form, but certainly the little Ameco 1956 study guide I picked up at a hamfest had Q and A. It had the answers to the Q and A also. Judging from the questions asked there are two and only two possibilities: A. Ameco was participating in fraud, in that the Q and A they offered was not applicable to the test at the time. B. The questions that they offered were not the exact questions on an official test, but as there are only so many ways to ask the same questions, the point was moot. Giving the study guides in essay format and then testing multiple choice gives the test writer a lot of leeway in how the questions are worded. Some people get off on writing questions so that the test is not so much on your knowledge of the subject as it is about your ability to read carefully. The reason that it worked back then was because the tests were administered by the FCC and had a lot more oversight than todays test administrators do. The only real soulution would be to provide an accepted pool of test questions that would be approved to be on the tests. However, then we come back to how those test pools would be available for a price after a while. Q and A are also less subjective. - 73 de Mike KB3EIA - |
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