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By: Barbara Goodwin

Barbara Goodwin — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:53:38 +0000

I taught private pilot ground school in the late 1980s when the test was done on paper. At that time, the students did get an accurate record of the actual numbers of the questions missed on the test. It was then easy to go over the questions missed and together with the student figure the correct answer. In the 90s when I again started teaching private pilot ground school, I was amazed to see the confusing results students received when they took their test on line. This new idea is a step in the right direction but “5 min.”
to look as the questions go by on the computer screen. I’m not sure that will help very much.

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Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:29:03 +0000

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By: Ron

Ron — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:05:16 +0000

As an instructor, I can testify to the difficulty of complying with the FAA’s requirement that I review the areas of “deficiency” on the airman knowledge test with students before they take their practical exam.

Imagine this. A student brings in their sheet and it lists no questions missed. Instead, just a bunch of codes like A356. I can use an Advisory Circular to decode them, but it’s not much help because all it gives are generalized areas like “Aircraft Systems” for a hint. I’m left to the student’s memory of the questions they might have received on that topic.

Not a very good system. It makes the FAA’s knowledge test concept even more of a joke than it needs to be.

What SHOULD happen is that the instructor should get an automated email from CATS (or whoever the testing organization is) with the student’s name, final result, and the questions they missed. Then I could really dig into things.

Unfortunately I think the true problem is that the FAA doesn’t trust CFIs enough to provide that information. Which is sad when you realize the responsibilities we already have.

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