[Uram-rejections] REPOST: OBTAINING A UK FULL (RECIPROCAL) LICENCE VIA A SINGLE EXAM

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> Subject: Re: REPOST: OBTAINING A UK FULL (RECIPROCAL) LICENCE VIA A SINGLE
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> Date: 8 May 2016 11:26:58 GMT
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> On 2016-05-07, Graham <alt.f7-fsks89j at yopmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >><snip>
> >>
> >>> The question pool is open, and always has been it seems. Exams are
> >>> administered by one of several groups, including the ARRL, although the
> >>> pool is the same for all of them. Volunteer Examiners (VEs) generate
> >>> papers locally on demand, then mark them after the candidate has
> >>> finished/after the alloted time. The VE sends the results off and the
> >>> FCC will issue a licence. Each session requires at least 3 VEs.
> >>> 
> >>
> >>No, before 1982-1983, when the current volunteer examiner program was
> >>instituted, exams were given by the FCC.  You could go to one of their
> >>offices and take the exam, or wait for them to come around to a major
> >>city near you (typically once a quarter, but less often if there wasn't
> >>much demand).  Exams were controlled and the question pool was not
> >>available.  You actually had to know your stuff - you couldn't just
> >>memorize the answers like you can now.  If the FCC examiner had the
> >>time, he would check the exam for you right there (he usually did).  But
> >>it took about six weeks to get your new license in the mail, and you
> >>couldn't use your new privileges until you got the license. No "instant
> >>gratification" then!
> >>
> >>I passed the 1st Class Radiotelephone (commercial license) in 1970.  I
> >>had to wait another 9 months to take the Amateur Extra exam because at
> >>the time you had to hold a General or above for two years before taking
> >>the Extra exam.  And I found the Extra exam harder than the
> >>Radiotelephone exam.
> >>
> >>You *really* had to know your stuff back then!
> >
> > Presumably these were "real" examinations where you had to answer the
> > questions in long-hand and draw diagrams etc. Like the RAE I took in
> > 1970. Multiple choice can't compare with that.
> 
> Not this cr at p again, please. People sit the exams they are set - it's not their fault what kind of exams those are.
> 
> -- 
> I don't have an attitude problem.  If you have a problem with my
>               attitude, that's your problem.
> 
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