Transport no longer does written exams?

[Cat Driver]

Really? I remember reading many years ago that the Question bank was developed and maintained by Transport Canada inspectors.

Same here, when I owned a school three of their finest from Ottawa were in my school doing a dog and pony act for the instructors.

When I asked them why they keep changing the exams and making them even more tricky to find the correct answer they said it was so they could get a 27% fail average.

One of them became real agitated and was very defensive of how they design their exams, he was very adamant that they had to change them because if they didn't the schools would give the students the correct answers.

So I said are you suggesting that as the owner of a school I can not allow my instructors to teach their students the right answers to these subjects?

Anyhow it was futile because you can not reason with an idiot.

[mag check]

The story I got about the exams was, that it was jobed out to the same company that writes the exams for the American exams.(this was when I was writing AME exams) perhaps the pilot ones are different? I was told by the TC inspector that they were taken from the A&P material.
The real joke with the exams were that the questions are just arbitralaly taken from the book, literally just open the book, point with a finger on the page, and write the question based on what is found there. This is why on one of the exams that I wrote, there was 3 questions regarding supersonic aircraft!!!!! Last time I checked there were no supersonic civilian aircraft in Canada, so why would TC be so concerned that a new AME should need to know so much about them, that they put 3 questions out of 50 pertainining to supersonic planes?
Because there is noone thinking.
They simply have the questions picked at random out of a book.