And talking to space!
A new pool of questions for the General Class license exam just rotated in on July 1st. Some people say the new tests will be harder than the old ones, others say they’ll be easier. In fact, the new exams will neither be tougher nor easier than the old ones, just a little bit different.
The Question Pool Committee of the National Conference of Volunteer Examiner Coordinators (NCVEC), headed up by Roland Anders, K3RA, and Maria Somma, AB1FM, spent months working with their team of technical experts and educational teachers for a full blown “renewal” of the General Class question pool. In summary:
74 old technology questions were removed,
52 new technology questions were added, and 233 questions were updated, resulting in a net decrease of 22 questions in the pool, with about 430 to study
Roland commented on the process, “<ExamTools.org> provided us with statistics based on more than 5,000 exams administered.”
For instance, when a distractor (wrong answer) was regularly chosen as a correct answer by the applicant, Maria and Roland> statistics.
