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Ok, now I've signed up with HTOL
austinrob:
well crap.... local tests on 5/19 on the other end of town, 6/2, and 6/16, then the new questions go into effect.
I started the old questions, but was hoping to test on them. unfortunately the closest test is on 6/2 when I'll be on a plane.
I guess I'll plan for the one on the 19th. I should be able to go from 8% complete on HTO to passing tests in 12 days right?
bryanthegoon:
--- Quote from: austinrob on May 07, 2012, 05:51:35 PM ---well crap.... local tests on 5/19 on the other end of town, 6/2, and 6/16, then the new questions go into effect.
I started the old questions, but was hoping to test on them. unfortunately the closest test is on 6/2 when I'll be on a plane.
I guess I'll plan for the one on the 19th. I should be able to go from 8% complete on HTO to passing tests in 12 days right?
--- End quote ---
Just depends on how much time you put against it and quick you pick it up, I passed my general and extra after just a week on HTO ( but I put more time against it than I should have, I am alittle OCD that way). If you don't get it in time it isn't the end of the world, I was playing around and most of the questions appear to either be the same or slight re-words of the same information. There are a handful that are new but not really that many (I honestly felt like some of the new test questions were worded in a way that was easier to understand than the current versions were in cases where it was a similar question)
austinrob:
yeah, and I'll be back in time for the one on the 16th, and will have plenty of hotel time to study in the evenings. Unless I can sort out a good hotel antenna solution to work some HF from Orlando.
AD:
I went from the low teens to +90% in two weeks. Studied while traveling and then the last week (Friday evening - Thursday morning) i moved into the +95% range. I started taking tests at lunch on Thursday and then took 13 exams from thursday evening and friday.
I was going to take the test on Monday evenng, but after those 13 and no fails, i walked into a testing session on Sat morning at a local hamfest. I passed with a minus 8. Not what i wanted to do, but its offical. I show a total of 60 hours for all three with the last 25-ish hours on the Extra.
The Sat test was "a last minute thing", i figured out that what the hell, give it a shot. I am glad i did, as i did not take the whole weekend studying to hit the upper >95%. I am more than satisified with my 84% thank you 8)
Give it a shot. I told the wife, that right after dinner i was locked in the shack and there would be no sharing fav TV shows or walking that week. She was cool and i am glad i did it.
The tech and general i did every math problem by hand. I was proud of that fact. After getting my Gen, i used only the freq in meters/2 to make a 10 M dipole. That was it.
So for the Extra, I made the choice to NOT learn the formulas. Being an engineer, the polar coords were pretty simple to memorize the right answers dependng on whether the values were positive or neg. the other math questions were simple enough to memorize by using keywords in the questions and associate the answer.
I make no appoligies for this method! I figured i would never be in an instance where remembering the math in my head would "save my life". There will always be the books and my programmible HP caculator oor a web app IF i ever needed to really use that material.
I took in the caculator to the session, but never turned it on.
W.Lynn:
I'm another one that did more than the usual study time. Yes, I did go from no license to Extra in one morning after 7 weeks of study, but I have very few responsibilities.
I was studying while cooking dinner, to and from anywhere if someone else was driving, while others watched tv, etc.
If you put a shortcut for HTOL on an (allegedly) smart phone, you can get a few minutes of questions done while standing in lines, sitting in waiting rooms, or waiting your stop in an elevator. I was getting to be such a nuisance, you'd think I had gotten addicted to one of those stupid games.
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