I don't think the Loranimals have an edge, unless they actually read CIM 11000.4(series).
Everyone is on equal footing walking into the test. How you distance yourself from your competition is directly proportional to the effort you put into studying.
The best study guides are those you make yourself, by, listing the objective, and answering the objective using the current references. Most of the references can be found online, so it the proceedure would be, read the objective, research the references, summarize the objective in your own words after reading the references. There is always a tendency to make questions out of specific regulations or in the case of the tower, the voltage variance and the nomenclature used with different sections of the tower.
You could enhance your preparation knowing what you need to do to maximize your retention. Maximum retention is obtained by "teach others" or "immediate use". If you research enough to "teach others", record your lesson (ppt and audio) complete with Q&A, you will maximize your retention. You have to invest the time, or you can rely on someone else to invest their time (assuming they are 100 percent correct with their research).
Maximize your efforts by exploring alternative study habits ... like listening to your audio while commuting, or doing outside chores.
Keep your personal lessongs (ppts) to no more than one hour.
Believe me, knowing the objective, summarizing the objective, recording both, and listening to it over and over a few times ... falls right into the Learning Law called ... The law of exercise. A more common name would be the rote method.
Using just that technique, I scored a 92 on an easy subject ... taxes.
I got a 94 as well. I've talked to several guys and their scores range from 59 to 88, although I got a buddy who says he got a 102 and I've heard of someone else with a 103.
hey fellas. 102 here. the 104 at PET is only 2 below the cut, he may make from the 08 test. there's another 104 in MA but he is very close to the 08 cut as well. in general the scores are much lower this yr. high 80's may do it for a lot of people this yr. Good luck to everyone
High 80s will be less than 1 deviation from the average. That means about 60 points for the swe.
The last few years of SWE competition had these averages for ETC ....
2004 - 89 2005 - 81 2006 - 75 2007 - 78 2008 - 83
By the way ... congrats to those in the 100s.
With the potential closing of Loran, that will clamp down on the advancements. When the ET rating closed the overseas Loran stations (57 billets) and absorbed the ST rating, in the early 90s, the advancements really clamped down.
Scoring in the 80s isn't distancing yourself from the competition. Other factors will have people jumping over you like you were an attometer in height.
JJ, just out of curiosity since I have really never understood the ins and outs of the SWE multiple; what exactly sets the diviation from year to year? Sorry, deviation
The deviation isnt making much sense, but then again i've never really thought about it much. Could JJ please explain this a little more, or point us in the right direction as to where to look it up?
wiki has a decent article on the standard deviation.
The SWE points is basically a T-score, which normalizes the tests so you can compare them to previous tests or across the ratings.
The CG Advancement Game is a treatise and preparation guide I'm working on, now and then, when the mood strikes me and it hasn't struck me in quite some time. The link is a draft of the treatise.
You can not go by the raw scores since they are normalizing the scores. You need to "distance" yourself from the competition.
I understand that you need to distance yourself on the test to get as close to eighty points as you can towards your multiple, my question is what sets the deviation. Correct me if I am wrong, but it is either 10, 11, 12, or 13 and is different each year. I just don't understand if it is random or if it is set by the scores of the SWE.
