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Hi Cy,
<p>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.
<p>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.
<p>Cheers
<br>RicB
<p>Cy Shuster wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>Please note that the questions I've posted aren't
from the RPT exam itself.
<br>These are questions from a self-evaluation exam posted on the PTG page,
and
<br>last updated three years ago.
<p>I've read elsewhere that the philosophy of the entire RPT testing process
is
<br>not to reflect test-specific knowledge gained in some cram session,
but
<br>rather to give a general of expertise gathered in the field over time.
<p>--Cy Shuster--
<br>Rochester, MN
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<p>--
<br>Richard Brekne
<br>RPT, N.P.T.F.
<br>UiB, Bergen, Norway
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