I am new to CAP...and new to the AE Officer position. I would like to test for the Yeager Award sometime in the future. But, it looks formidable. One exam...100 questions. Really? How do you get your arms around something like that?
Do you just read the book...take the test (I know, it is open book)...and hope you remember everything?
Ideas?
It is an open book test so just have the required books at the ready and you should do fine.
I would suggest reading it first. Before taking the test... >:D
Open the .pdf up and you can search it for answers. Search google when that doesn't work. When I took it in mid-2016 I found a couple of answers that were wrong. The one I recall is that they mixed up the scales for tornadoes and hurricanes. I complained at the time and perhaps it has been fixed.
Quote from: GaryVC on January 22, 2018, 08:03:28 PM
Open the .pdf up and you can search it for answers. Search google when that doesn't work. When I took it in mid-2016 I found a couple of answers that were wrong. The one I recall is that they mixed up the scales for tornadoes and hurricanes. I complained at the time and perhaps it has been fixed.
Isn't searching anything other than the textbook and notes not allowed? Not that anyone can stop it, but at least on cadet tests, we promise that we aren't using anything other than the book and notes.
I took the AEPSM test when it first came out and passed it on the first try. Without the book. Not a hard test
Quote from: Cadetter on January 22, 2018, 08:22:40 PM
Quote from: GaryVC on January 22, 2018, 08:03:28 PM
Open the .pdf up and you can search it for answers. Search google when that doesn't work. When I took it in mid-2016 I found a couple of answers that were wrong. The one I recall is that they mixed up the scales for tornadoes and hurricanes. I complained at the time and perhaps it has been fixed.
Isn't searching anything other than the textbook and notes not allowed? Not that anyone can stop it, but at least on cadet tests, we promise that we aren't using anything other than the book and notes.
Yes. It's called Integrity. And seniors should have it, too.
It was a very easy test when I took it (as the AEPSM) in 1982.
Heck, mine's so old it doesn't even have Gen. Yeager's name on it.
Jack
Quote from: ColonelJack on January 23, 2018, 11:33:56 AM
It was a very easy test when I took it (as the AEPSM) in 1982.
Heck, mine's so old it doesn't even have Gen. Yeager's name on it.
Jack
I did mine only a few years later (agree with you).
In those days, Gen. Yeager was still flying (Northrop F-20 Tiger Shark business development)!
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The textbook is around 650 pages and costs about $50, so download it from the website for free and have it open as you take the test and refer to it when you are stuck on a question. It is very easy, basic stuff. If you have an interest in aerospace, you won't have a problem.
True! I have also joined an Online LSAT Prep (https://testmaxprep.com/lsat) course where there are a lot of practice papers and study material. I make sure I do that everyday and try to retain what all I have read in order to clear my law exam in the very first attempt.
It took me maybe 3 hours to take if that
Take it as a group with others in the squadron.
Any former cadet who earned the Mitchell Award should be able to take this test cold and pass it with an 80% plus score.
Quote from: PHall on May 03, 2018, 01:56:55 PM
Any former cadet who earned the Mitchell Award should be able to take this test cold and pass it with an 80% plus score.
I did - 4 decades after my Mitchell!
If you are an aviation buff, it is a easy test. (I did take it open book, needed to check about a dozen questions, mainly history!)
Quote from: PHall on May 03, 2018, 01:56:55 PM
Any former cadet who earned the Mitchell Award should be able to take this test cold and pass it with an 80% plus score.
Can confirm. Even years later, the material was quite familiar!
Quote from: J2H on May 03, 2018, 07:18:41 AM
It took me maybe 3 hours to take if that
Can you stop, and start back the next day? Does it remember, and pick back up?
It should NOT take three hours to complete that test.
Quote from: etodd on May 04, 2018, 01:11:38 AM
Quote from: J2H on May 03, 2018, 07:18:41 AM
It took me maybe 3 hours to take if that
Can you stop, and start back the next day? Does it remember, and pick back up?
Negative.
If you close out, the test closes.
If you need more then an hour to complete this test then you didn't study enough.
I did it in between work shifts (Hour on the gate, hour in the booth), and Netflix