USA Bronze Badge test.

Malcolm Austin writes
At our UK club site we have a full set of questions for the UK Bronze
tests. How else do you give people the chance to look at the
questions?

Ditto. In fact, we have two versions on our site. One with just the
questions, and the other with the answers. I'd guess your site has the
same. I'm finding both to be an invaluable study aid...

There are so many on the document its impossible to remember them all,
and it actually gets rather confusing. It al least gives you a real
idea of what you have to study.

Printing out the pdf file produced 84 pages of A4. To be honest, I
disagree that it's too much to remember them all. I'm quite confident I
could learn the lot by rote in an evening or two. I probably will when
it comes to taking the actual test. But that isn't really the point.

The best thing about having all the questions and answers to hand is
that I can use them as the first point of study, and when I hit an
answer I don't know the reasons behind, I can go and find out.

Odds are with just an evening or two to cram the subject from the
questions alone, I'd be quite happy to sit the test before the end of
this week. With the test done and another three hours solo in my log
book (to make the requisite 10), I'd qualify for my Bronze, so with
weather permitting, it wouldn't be impossible for me to get it before
the end of the month.

But what would be the point? For all the difference it would make (ie.
not a lot) I'd only be cheating myself.

On the other hand, not having access to the questions and their answers
(or at least a sufficient collection of past papers) would make the
whole thought of the Bronze paper terribly daunting. But only because it
would be such an unknown factor and the difficulty that this would
present in preparing adequately for it.

In such an event, the concentration of prep would have to go into exam
and study technique as opposed to actual study of the subject itself.
Which would, somewhat, defeat the purpose of getting the badge.

--
Bill Gribble

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