Thanks for posting this, Richard.
A few details:
Our team submitted 982 English language questions and the corresponding 982 French language questions to ISED in January. Our review took our 20-person team almost a year. About 80% of the original questions were revised in some way - everything from inserting a hyphen to complete replacement.
After their review, ISED sent us their comments about 2 weeks ago. On the 1964 questions, they had 23 comments. All but two were minor wording changes. We had an online meeting with them last Friday and finalized all outstanding questions.
Now the entire revised banks have to go to the Govt. "document police". They will check to ensure everything complies with their standards for spelling and grammar. We don't know how long that will take.
After that approval, ISED will publish the bank on their website. They will give instructors, training manual publishers, and online course administrators about 6 months to revise their material, then the new banks will go live for use on real exams. I'm guessing this will happen about mid-year 2025.
One new feature will be a standard sheet of formulas and diagrams to be given to each examinee for use in writing the exam.
We are now deep into reviewing the Advanced bank. There's only about half as many questions, but reviewing/revising them is more work because the material is more complex. I'm referring to the ARRL Handbook, Antenna Book & numerous online references all the time.
73
Dave, VE3WI
A few details:
Our team submitted 982 English language questions and the corresponding 982 French language questions to ISED in January. Our review took our 20-person team almost a year. About 80% of the original questions were revised in some way - everything from inserting a hyphen to complete replacement.
After their review, ISED sent us their comments about 2 weeks ago. On the 1964 questions, they had 23 comments. All but two were minor wording changes. We had an online meeting with them last Friday and finalized all outstanding questions.
Now the entire revised banks have to go to the Govt. "document police". They will check to ensure everything complies with their standards for spelling and grammar. We don't know how long that will take.
After that approval, ISED will publish the bank on their website. They will give instructors, training manual publishers, and online course administrators about 6 months to revise their material, then the new banks will go live for use on real exams. I'm guessing this will happen about mid-year 2025.
One new feature will be a standard sheet of formulas and diagrams to be given to each examinee for use in writing the exam.
We are now deep into reviewing the Advanced bank. There's only about half as many questions, but reviewing/revising them is more work because the material is more complex. I'm referring to the ARRL Handbook, Antenna Book & numerous online references all the time.
73
Dave, VE3WI