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   Roger Hayter  wrote:   
   > Stephen Thomas Cole  wrote:   
   >   
   >> Guy G4DWV 4X1LT  wrote:   
   >>> The fact remain thus:- If you show an old RAE paper to any modern   
   >>> multiple-choice licensee, they will be stumped.   
   >>   
   >> Horseshit. Compare a written RAE with a current Full paper, they're mostly   
   >> the same questions.   
   >   
   > There may well be an element of exam technique.   To be honest, my   
   > generation would probably have had a harder time learning how to do   
   > multiple choice than the current generations would have had learning to   
   > do essay questions;   but in either case a  bit of practice with the   
   > books and sample answers should have been enough.   
   >   
   > The FL makes AR accessible to the less academic, less knowledgable or   
   > less motivated.  At the same time, it makes the whole hobby a lot less   
   > attractive to some of  the more academically inclined.   
      
   Does it? I'd humbly say that I'm edging towards "academically inclined" but   
   I didn't mind sitting a couple of piss easy exams.   
      
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