Is there an on-line training manual or examination manual
for the Foundation Licence?
An 85-year-old acquaintance of mine is interested in getting
a licence and has appealed to me for help.
(I have discussed my stance of opposition to the scheme with him and
have told him that I won't QSO with him unless and until he gets
a Full licence)
Is there an on-line training manual or examination manual
for the Foundation Licence?
Is there an on-line training manual or examination manual for the
Foundation Licence?
An 85-year-old acquaintance of mine is interested in getting a licence
and has appealed to me for help.
(I have discussed my stance of opposition to the scheme with him and
have told him that I won't QSO with him unless and until he gets a Full licence)
The exam contains question from the textbooks, including mistakes.
Is there an on-line training manual or examination manual
for the Foundation Licence?
An 85-year-old acquaintance of mine is interested in getting
a licence and has appealed to me for help.
(I have discussed my stance of opposition to the scheme with him and
have told him that I won't QSO with him unless and until he gets
a Full licence)
gareth evans <headstone255@yahoo.com> wrote:
Is there an on-line training manual or examination manual
for the Foundation Licence?
An 85-year-old acquaintance of mine is interested in getting
a licence and has appealed to me for help.
(I have discussed my stance of opposition to the scheme with him and
have told him that I won't QSO with him unless and until he gets
a Full licence)
BRATS do an online course, if that’s of any interest:
https://brats-qth.org/training/indexx.htm
If your acquaintance is not averse to buying an RSGB book, I can wholeheartedly recommend their Exam Secrets publication:
https://rsgb.org/main/blog/publications/books-extra/2019/10/10/exam-secrets-for-radio-amateurs/
HTH.
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 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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