The questions were TOP SECRET back in the 1960-1970 era.
Courts ordered the FAA to make the questions public. That
is why they are available. They were published in test
books and when the FAA and Internet discovered each other,
they were made available on-line.

Microsoft has been around only about 25 years, the Internet
about 15.


"Robert M. Gary" wrote in message
ups.com...
| On Feb 16, 11:26 am, "Jim Macklin"
| wrote:
| Forty years ago, ACME and other schools were having
their
| students and instructors take the tests [all of them]
dozens
| of times. The tests were of limited numbers and the
schools
| were having student memorize the questions and answers.
|
| I'll admit to having done that a few times. However, I
didn't need to
| take the test dozens of times to do it, the bank of
questions is
| available on the internet and ASA, etc provide all the
answers already
| (I know you know this). It doesn't seem like there is much
benefit of
| taking a test over and over to memorize the questions when
the
| questions are available on the internet.
| Nowadays with study software you can generate tests with
the same
| exact questions as the real test as many times as you like
and take
| them on your PC.
|
| -Robert, CFII
|