CASA Cyber Exam Questions
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I have had a change of heart....... after talking to the ASL staff ( I suspect she was suffering PMT) it seems that you cannot even book an exam without giving over hands full of money into their bank account...... all well and good if you live in the city or have a credit card ( I know...shut up bino's) and it seems that there is one computer at the place where I want to do the exam and after driving 240Ks to book the friggen thing I was told to come back in a fortnight and have another go at it coz some one beat me to the one sitting per fortnight that is available.........yeah right. that will be two days of work and 980klms to sit one exam, and if I'm late for the sitting there is a no refund policy.
its a good thing for the city but it sux for us country folk....... and they dont care..... neither do CASA it seems after my breif chat with them. Its do it our way or not at all.... ragardless of cost to you.
its a good thing for the city but it sux for us country folk....... and they dont care..... neither do CASA it seems after my breif chat with them. Its do it our way or not at all.... ragardless of cost to you.
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Tubby
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you dont have to remember many (if any) details. If you take the trouble to go to the CASA website you will find there is provision to make comment/complaint about questions
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You have lost me
If you dont 'remember many (if any) details'
How can you 'make comment/complaint '? on any of them
Wiz
I live in the city and have numerous credit cards Just seems like none of them have enough free credit to pay for a Cyber exam
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you dont have to remember many (if any) details. If you take the trouble to go to the CASA website you will find there is provision to make comment/complaint about questions
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You have lost me
If you dont 'remember many (if any) details'
How can you 'make comment/complaint '? on any of them
Wiz
I live in the city and have numerous credit cards Just seems like none of them have enough free credit to pay for a Cyber exam
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Wiz of Auz,
more the issue I feel is the exams I sat very much are biased toward people who can attend a course such as AFT or the like. Personally this is not possible as I hold down a fulltime job.
Many of the exam questions are, as earlier pointed out, conundrum solving, as opposed to clear and decisive questions with clear and decisive answers, not a terribly obscene concept I feel.
more the issue I feel is the exams I sat very much are biased toward people who can attend a course such as AFT or the like. Personally this is not possible as I hold down a fulltime job.
Many of the exam questions are, as earlier pointed out, conundrum solving, as opposed to clear and decisive questions with clear and decisive answers, not a terribly obscene concept I feel.
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LHRT, your right mate, and I agree with ya....... I was a bit cranky with the whole system when I wrote the last reply. 
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Tubby One,
I completed the CPL Cyber Exams when they were first introduced (2 weeks after the promised date if I remember correctly) in March last year.
I'm sure there have been improvements to the system since then but aside from the glitches where the computer wouldn't even allow me to select an answer, there were other ugly scenarios.
I had a couple of easy questions that were indisputably correct (What colour is 100LL Avgas?) that turned up on my KDR when they were the only question on the subject.
Other questions had two possible correct answers or other such scenarios. There was a facility to fax a complaint on the spot so I took the time (while the questions were fresh) to send an extremely detailed fax after each of these situations arose. By the end of the week, the Exam Supervisor was almost waiting by the fax machine when I finished my exam!
I left all of my contact details but received no reply. After several weeks, I searched for and found a contact on the CASA website. I sent a fax to them and again received no reply.
It would appear that the complaints procedure isn't as simple as you would have us believe.
Seeing this topic also reminded me that I was overcharged when I booked the Cyber Exams due to a glitch in ASL's on-line booking procedure. I contacted ASL and was told by a young lady with the initials JD that they didn't have the facility to do refunds at that time. No problem taking money, just can't give it back when they make a mistake. I'll be chasing that one up!!
If you work for either CASA or ASL and you are involved with the Cyber Exams, I would very much like to hear from you. You can email me at [email protected].
In case you are wondering, I passed all of the exams, so like previous posts, this post is not the result of sour grapes.
Hope to hear from you.
FS
I completed the CPL Cyber Exams when they were first introduced (2 weeks after the promised date if I remember correctly) in March last year.
I'm sure there have been improvements to the system since then but aside from the glitches where the computer wouldn't even allow me to select an answer, there were other ugly scenarios.
I had a couple of easy questions that were indisputably correct (What colour is 100LL Avgas?) that turned up on my KDR when they were the only question on the subject.
Other questions had two possible correct answers or other such scenarios. There was a facility to fax a complaint on the spot so I took the time (while the questions were fresh) to send an extremely detailed fax after each of these situations arose. By the end of the week, the Exam Supervisor was almost waiting by the fax machine when I finished my exam!
I left all of my contact details but received no reply. After several weeks, I searched for and found a contact on the CASA website. I sent a fax to them and again received no reply.
It would appear that the complaints procedure isn't as simple as you would have us believe.
Seeing this topic also reminded me that I was overcharged when I booked the Cyber Exams due to a glitch in ASL's on-line booking procedure. I contacted ASL and was told by a young lady with the initials JD that they didn't have the facility to do refunds at that time. No problem taking money, just can't give it back when they make a mistake. I'll be chasing that one up!!
If you work for either CASA or ASL and you are involved with the Cyber Exams, I would very much like to hear from you. You can email me at [email protected].
In case you are wondering, I passed all of the exams, so like previous posts, this post is not the result of sour grapes.
Hope to hear from you.
FS
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I must say that I generally don't have a problem with the costs of the exams as some other exams I've had to take are much more costly.
I do agree however about the standard of the questions. I found some in the PPL to be difficult to follow as far as the logic is concerned and some with very ambiguous answers.
At the start of the exam, in the pre-spiel, it does tell you to note any question numbers down where you feel that there is some concern and log these with CASA.
I took note of a couple which I thought were a problem, on the working paper that was given to me, which was promptly taken back at the end of the exam. This sort of defeated the purpose, and I was too knackered to think about it at the time.
I believe that in any multi choice exam there can be questions with some ambiguity, however, at least one of the answers should be much more correct than any of the others. I did not find this in the CASA exams which did make it more difficult for me.
I do agree however about the standard of the questions. I found some in the PPL to be difficult to follow as far as the logic is concerned and some with very ambiguous answers.
At the start of the exam, in the pre-spiel, it does tell you to note any question numbers down where you feel that there is some concern and log these with CASA.
I took note of a couple which I thought were a problem, on the working paper that was given to me, which was promptly taken back at the end of the exam. This sort of defeated the purpose, and I was too knackered to think about it at the time.
I believe that in any multi choice exam there can be questions with some ambiguity, however, at least one of the answers should be much more correct than any of the others. I did not find this in the CASA exams which did make it more difficult for me.
