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Fri Jul 16, 2010 8:41 amby HercFeend
Phew! Glad that's all over and I can have my evenings back for a little while at least!
I took and passed my last CPL theory exam (PoF&AP(A)) yesterday and, by the end of the exam, couldn't help but wonder if it had been a test of my technical knowledge or a test of English comprehension....... Looking at the KDRs, unfortunately it appears to have been the latter!!!!
Has anyone else had this experience??
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Fri Jul 16, 2010 2:48 pmby pacblue
HercFeend wrote:Phew! Glad that's all over and I can have my evenings back for a little while at least!
I took and passed my last CPL theory exam (PoF&AP(A)) yesterday and, by the end of the exam, couldn't help but wonder if it had been a test of my technical knowledge or a test of English comprehension....... Looking at the KDRs, unfortunately it appears to have been the latter!!!!
Has anyone else had this experience??
+1!!
Asl exams are 20% aviation and 80% English comprehension
one of the best KDRs i have had was "define what IAS is" .... i know im not the smartest cookie but c'mon!
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Fri Jul 16, 2010 6:09 pmby pilotgallagher01
I know the feeling, you sometimes look at your KDRs and go 'How the hell could I get that wrong' but as you said pacblue, it's all bloody english comprehension, must be real hard for the foreign guys coming over here to do these silly ASL questions..
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Fri Jul 16, 2010 7:07 pmby Splitpin
You did it anyway........well done
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Sat Jul 17, 2010 1:02 pmby FlyingKiwi
According to one of my CPL nav KDRs, I failed to correctly answer "describe the general shape of the earth".
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Sat Jul 17, 2010 2:25 pmby Dion500
In CPL Nav. I apparently failed to define:
GS, IAS, CAS and TAS
How the hell did i still manage to get 90%?
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Sat Jul 17, 2010 2:33 pmby Ian Warren
FlyingKiwi wrote:"describe the general shape of the earth".
Century,s the question has been asked ... "the 'World' is flat" , reason man invented the aeroplane was so he did not fall off! or if he did he could get back up on it ! .... I really don,t no ? the education people get these days is beyond me
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Sat Jul 17, 2010 7:04 pmby Syncop8r
I'm expecting that one for PPL Navigation and Flight Planning - "oblate spheroid"???
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Sun Jul 18, 2010 8:04 amby FlyingKiwi
I probably picked "D) A Triangle".
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Sun Jul 18, 2010 11:31 amby pacblue
I remember i picked C) Pamela Anderson
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Mon Jul 19, 2010 8:18 amby HercFeend
Well I'm glad it's not just me, and like you said Splitpin "I did it anyway". It's still bloody annoying though knowing you could have done better and not because you didn't know you stuff!! I'll get over it!
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Mon Jul 19, 2010 1:47 pmby gojozoom
Oh cr*p...I'm a foreigner and in the middle of my PPL theory studies....I'm not looking forward to this....It was hard enough to learn all those technical words (I didn't even know what they meant in hungarian) and aerodynamics in english, now add this 'english comprehension' exam to the top...will be fun...
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Mon Jul 19, 2010 3:30 pmby Syncop8r
pacblue wrote:I remember i picked C) Pamela Anderson
Surely that would have been at least DD) Pamela Anderson?
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Mon Jul 19, 2010 7:25 pmby Timmo
FlyingKiwi wrote:According to one of my CPL nav KDRs, I failed to correctly answer "describe the general shape of the earth".
haha depends on how generally you want to describe it doesn't it! A geographer like me will have a very different description of the 'general shape of the earth' to an astronomer or a 'layman' for that matter.
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Mon Jul 19, 2010 7:27 pmby pacblue
Syncop8r wrote:Surely that would have been at least DD) Pamela Anderson?
great call Syncop8r!!!