Written test.. was Rim thingy..

[Richard Brekne]

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Hi Cy,

Having gone through quite a bit of CTE training, and training in administrating
both the written and the technical exams, I'm pretty familiar with them. I think
the best conceived of the three is the technical exam.  The tuning exam is very
(as in extremely) fair, but un-needfully cumbersom to get together. The existing
written exam is IMO basically a waste of time however. Multiple choice questions
are to begin with vaque and full of double meanings and ridiculous pitfalls. I'd
rather drop the thing all together as there is basically nothing of real value
on it that cant be covered sufficiently by the other two exams.

As far as the general expertise gathered in the feild over time.... grin... put
5 expert piano techs in a room toghether... rpresenting 200 vast years of
experience and ask them why the bridle straps exist.

Cheers
RicB

Cy Shuster wrote:

> Please note that the questions I've posted aren't from the RPT exam itself.
> These are questions from a self-evaluation exam posted on the PTG page, and
> last updated three years ago.
>
> I've read elsewhere that the philosophy of the entire RPT testing process is
> not to reflect test-specific knowledge gained in some cram session, but
> rather to give a general of expertise gathered in the field over time.
>
> --Cy Shuster--
> Rochester, MN
>

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