<HTML>In a message dated 4/16/02 8:53:52 PM Central Daylight Time, piano@charlesneuman.net writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Wim wrote: > As long as the electronic test is equal to the aural test, we shouldn't be > allowed to differentiate. Are there two different tests? Or were there? If so, that explains the rule a bit better for me.</BLOCKQUOTE> There never were two different tests. The way the electronic tuners were scored were different, but even that has become very similar. <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px"> By the way, what's the best way to find out exactly what the RPT tests involve and how they are scored? I tried to find out one day, and I browsed through every bit of literature I had. Either I missed it, or I didn't have the right literature. Not that it's an issue for me any time soon... </BLOCKQUOTE> I am sure this information is somewhere, either on line on the PTG web page, or in the CD ROM, if you have it. But the best way to find out about the RPT tuning exam is to attend a seminar or the PTG convention, and go to a class called. "how to take the PTG Tuning Exam." The other way is to ask the CTE in your chapter. If your chapter doesn't have one, again, got a seminar, and I am sure there will be one there.   <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Charles P.S. I think it's worth asking about, because I remember reading the 1999 PTG survey, and it said that for 40% of Associates, the reason they did not upgrade to RPT was because they didn't know how to go about doing so.</BLOCKQUOTE> That is probably true. Unfortunately, that is the fault of the chapter to which they belong. Chapters should try to educate their Associates on how to take the exams, and offer them as often as possible. Wim </HTML>