On 07/09/2021 08:40, Ottavio Caruso wrote:
The exam contains question from the textbooks, including mistakes.I think that is a common problem with accreditation exams if there are
any questions where there is any subjective element. Although I never
did the Microsoft ones, I'm told, by people who did, that they had to
learn the "correct" answers, rather than the ones that they actually believed.
In how many cases are the distractors actually the true answer, and the intended answer worse than the distractors?
(Unfortunately I know someone who boasts about getting through the intermediate by learning the question pool. They are very public about
it.)
On 07/09/2021 20:49, David Woolley wrote:
On 07/09/2021 08:40, Ottavio Caruso wrote:
The exam contains question from the textbooks, includingI think that is a common problem with accreditation exams if there
mistakes.
are any questions where there is any subjective element. Although
I never did the Microsoft ones, I'm told, by people who did, that
they had to learn the "correct" answers, rather than the ones that
they actually believed.
In how many cases are the distractors actually the true answer,
and the intended answer worse than the distractors?
(Unfortunately I know someone who boasts about getting through the intermediate by learning the question pool. They are very public
about it.)
With my other hat on (Which nowadays pushes Ham Radio into the
shadows for me) as a dabbler in clocks, I queried a letter that
had appeared in the Horological Journal of the BHI, in regard to
the claimed advantages today of involute gearing instead of
the widely-accepted cycloidal tooth forms.
Cycloidal tooth forms are held to be lower friction because
of the action-after-centre.
An examiner of their professional certificates replied to me
in effect to say that if I wished to pass their exams then
I should continue with my stance on cycloidal gears because
their exams represent the state of the art
from 1950 backwards in time and not the practices of the
internationally recognised Swiss watch manufacturers of today!
On 07/09/2021 20:49, David Woolley wrote:
On 07/09/2021 08:40, Ottavio Caruso wrote:
The exam contains question from the textbooks, including mistakes.
I think that is a common problem with accreditation exams if there are
any questions where there is any subjective element. Although I never did the Microsoft ones, I'm told, by people who did, that they had to learn the "correct" answers, rather than the ones that they actually believed.
In how many cases are the distractors actually the true answer, and the intended answer worse than the distractors?
(Unfortunately I know someone who boasts about getting through the intermediate by learning the question pool. They are very public about it.)
With my other hat on (Which nowadays pushes Ham Radio into the
shadows for me) as a dabbler in clocks, I queried a letter that
had appeared in the Horological Journal of the BHI, in regard to
the claimed advantages today of involute gearing instead of
the widely-accepted cycloidal tooth forms.
Cycloidal tooth forms are held to be lower friction because
of the action-after-centre.
An examiner of their professional certificates replied to me
in effect to say that if I wished to pass their exams then
I should continue with my stance on cycloidal gears because
their exams represent the state of the art
from 1950 backwards in time and not the practices of the
internationally recognised Swiss watch manufacturers of today!
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