On Sun, 21 May 2017, Vassilis Spiliopoulos wrote:


Maybe you did not read the text.
THE EXAM DATE IS USUALLY MAY 20-25 WHICH IS THE WORST DAY POSSIBLE DUE TO
EXAMS!!!

Are you giving them, or taking them?

Exams won't go on forever, you may have to wait.

Or get a note from your parents.

I got my ham license when I was 12, going down in May and failing the code
receiving test, going back towards the end of June and passing that test
and getting the license. I got time off from elementary school, my mother
wrote a note for me.

Some countries don't have fixed dates for the ham exams. Or not once a
year. IN the US, they used to have a license where someone could take the
test locally if they lived a certain distance from an examining office,
and of course the original Novice license in the US used a voluntary
examiner. But that's in the past, more recently in the US all the tests
are given by voluntary examiners, so the date can be any time. If you went
to the big Dayton hamfest this weekend, you could take the test I'm sure,
bu it wouldn't be the only date. Here in Canada we also use voluntary
examiners, I forget when that came into effect, it was decades after I
took the test.

So depending on where you are, and you don't say that, there probably is
some way to accommodate someone who is unavailable when the exam is given,
if the exam is only once a year on a fixed date.

Michael