Dear Troposurfer,
You are of course correct......it is just you.
If I may quote from the very first post in this string....
"I also believe marking is instant so you dont have to wait for months for your results".
As I stated above the typical timescale for marking is much shorter than this and there is nothing to be gained by exaggerating the problem.
You also appear to be assuming that computer testing will reduce costs and enable exams to be carried out in a wider range of venues. On what do you base this assumption?
If a student asks for a remark the CAA charge £20 just to push a sheet of paper through a computer data reader. Why should we imagine that they will charge less for a whole exam.
Shortly after my school started operating at Bournemouth I asked the CAA to establish an exam centre there. My argument was that the three schools in the area (EPTA, GTS and BCFT) could generate a reasonable number of students. Within three days the CAA rejected the idea on the basis that "It would not be cost effective". The small number of exam centres currently in use is due simply to the fact that the CAA do not want to create any more.
Even if they eventually introduce computer testing they are unlikely to allow the tests to be supervised by the schools. They might (just possibly) permit them to be carried out in the offices used by their flight examiners, but even this is far from certain.
In all probability the flight examiners would claim that they are too busy to carry the extra work load.
You have also grossly exaggerated my comments about the CAA concern over the quality of their question bank. My saying that they are concerned is not the same as saying "the CAA think their exams are cr@p". Their concern about using the current bank for computer exams is that this will generate an endless stream of appeals. They have no wish (and probably no resources) to deal with such a stream.
The more enlightened members of the CAA staff (yes there are one or two) recognise the fact that they have problems, but other members do not. Unfortunately the "we have no problems" brigade currently hold the reigns.
Like you I want to see a much more efficient and less costly system of exams. But there is little to be gained by exaggerating the problem and raising unrealistic expectations. If you have already started your course you can be assured that you will have taken all of your exams long before any computer testing system is put in place.