N2EY wrote:
In article , Mike Coslo
writes:


N2EY wrote:


In article , Mike Coslo
writes:



Did you highlight the right answers or black out the wrong ones?

Neither!


Impressive.


Well, there wasn't much point in going through the motions unless I was
actually going to learn something. Just the way I'm put together.

Continued taking the online tests. For every question I got wrong on
the tests, I researched out the answer. Sources were reference books and
the 'net.

Yep.


Continued until I scored 100 percent pretty consistently.

And the actual test was a breeze, right?

Wasn't too bad.


Of course you passed.

What you did was to 'study the test'. Which isn't "wrong" or illegal,
despite
what some may rant about it. You did what worked for you, within the rules.

Here's the thing, Jim. I can still remember the right answers. So did I
learn the material?


Maybe. If you were given a new exam on the same material that used completely
different questions and answers, could you pass it? If so, then you know the
material.

Yup, I could.


*If* you only care about right answers rather than understanding.

Not really. I saw a electrician licensing test book with question pool
recently. Lives depend on the electrician doing safe and proper work.
and they are depending on the Electrician knowing.



But someone cannot become a licensed electrician by written tests alone.
There
are extensive practical tests and experience requirements as well, and
several
levels of licensing. IIRC, here in PA it takes 9000 hours of documented
work
experience under the supervision of a licensed electrician to be licensed
at
the highest level.

Sure, but if you flunk the test, question pool and all, then you
aren't an electrician. 9000 hours of training aside.


Point is, if you pass the test but don;t have the 9000 hours you aren't an
electrician either.

Equal results, eh?

For example, I could ask:

- Which of the following are blunatrons? (Flufnagles, zinthorps, calinars,
rhenotors)

A) Fluffnagles and rhenotors only
B) Zinthorps only
C) Calinars and zinthorps only
D) Calinars, zinthorps and fluffnagles

(Of course the correct answer is C)

Your not going to catch me in a trick question, Mr. Micollis! Zinthorps


only exist at a temperature of absolute zero, and even then it's only a
theory!..........


Doesn't matter because the question pool committee has determined that C is the
correct answer. Note that there is no answer which reads "Calinars only".

Besides, you should know by now that a new type of superconducting
nanotechnology zinthorp has been developed that is real, not theory.
Impractical now because of the requirements for liquid helium cooling but in a
few years, who knows?

Now, if you remember that calinars and zinthorps are blunatrons but
fluffnagles
and rhenotors aren't, you'll always get the question right. But do you
really understand anything about blunatrons?




There was an old song called "Patches" that you may recall from high

school

days. Man is remembering how tough he had it as a kid. Among the folks I
grew up with, we still use the line

"And then the rains came, and washed all the crops away"

whenever somebody starts geezering.

hehe, I used to do a good rendition of the line after that - "And at
the age of thirteen, I felt I had the weight of the whooole world on my
shoulders" 8^)


"And Mama knew what I was going through..."

That's the one!

It's particularly effective when someone is going on and one about

something

like how tough it was to find a parking space, or how long the line at
Starbucks was this morning,

That's how the Republican party got started isn't it? ;^)


Exactly.

and three people do it, one taking each line...


"in harmony"



If the test administrator looks like Heidi Klum, or if I get to be *her*
test
administrator, I'll volunteer to put the system throuigh its paces. Heck,
I'll sign up for two weeks......

I've got dibs on Ms. Klum if she ever needs a ham radio instructor.

Nice lass. Can you believe I had to look her up on the web?


You must not pay attention to the magazine racks in the supermarket checkout
line...

Ahh, there it is. I probably go in a grocery store about once every two
years

Big problem is the name. I keep thinking of the old story of "Heidi", although

the

real one bears no resemblance!!


I also claim dibs on Molly Sims...

I can understand that. Just don't get too greedy here! 8^)

- Mike KB3EIA -