Originally Posted by
Judd
------ the candidate is foiled again.
That is why the FAA system of offering the candidate a large bank of questions to study and none are trick questions, then it is in the interest of the candidate to study the lot before fronting for a written or oral test
Judd,
How right you are.
Many years ago, CASA brought in an FAA examinations expert as a consultant, he was aghast at the "trick questions" that featured so prominently, in all CASA written exams. One series of ATPL exams, I don't think anybody passed, which some in CASA saw as "maintaining high air safety standards".
To any the suggestion that the FAA system "worked" , the then CASA Assistant Director, Standards went apoplectic: " But if you do that, all the candidate has to do is learn the answers to the 1200 (?) questions".
To which the FAA man replied: "But isn't that what you want, for the candidate to know the answers to all the topics".
What became very obvious is that FAA saw and sees written exams as just part of multiple assessments that each candidate must go through on the way to a license at any level, including being "oraled" up to 100% on any deficiencies in the writtens, before a flight test.
On the other hand CASA saw and sees the "written" as a flaming hoop of fire to be jumped through, not really as part of a co-herehnt continuing assessment. Failing the "flaming hoop" test was/is just part of "maintaining the world's highest air safety standards".
Which is another fiction, behind which CASA hides.
Tootle pip!!
PS: One of the things we discovered, at the time, is that nobody in CASA had the training and qualifications to understand the theory of how to use multiple choice questions to properly assess knowledge of the subject, as opposed to subjective interpretation of the question writer's English language "tricks" style.