Well Steve, clearly I'm not talking about examples like yours. I'm talking about people who have the information but choose not to do it because they think "they'll be right".
Not Yet - maybe it wasn't necessary for you, maybe you're a genius. Being newly rated yourself, you will remember how hard the course study is. Why not give other prospective controllers support and the best chance they can have by encouraging them to do the pre-course study?
A lot of it happened to be stuff I've already learned as well, but I had no way of knowing that until I studied it. Why risk it??
As
Hempy said, at least if I do have the misfortune to fail an exam, my instructors
will know I've got the motivation and have been putting the work in and I hopefully won't get my a** kicked out the door without a backward glance.