Charlie Wolf wrote:

What are the rating exams going to look like?

Step back a bit, how about the recommendations?

PAR's (AKA Practical Factors) are supposed to be signed off honestly as
a requisite before taking the exam. When the base becomes broader what
truly are the chances the person will have even seen some of them.

For example as an AC I came from a smaller rating. Yet a sailor first
detailed to a CV can't meet the functions of a control tower.
Vice-versa applies to the sailor detailed to an outlying VFR tower who
only has pictures in the 3&2 manual to be reminded what a radar scope
looks like.

I recall when ADJ and ADR were separate until ADCS. At that point the
senior and master chiefs are likely administrative personnel anyway. At
least then if you received an ADR2 you knew he should be skilled to work
on the station C-117.