Well .. looks like I couldn’t leave well enough alone .. I’ve started yet another project. I am attempting to write a Canadian Amateur Radio Basic Exam application for the Android platform.
So far, I have put every single exam question from RIC-7 into a MySQL database, which has:
- taken a lot more effort than I had expected
- produced some interesting results
After analyzing the distribution of answers in the basic exam question pool, I can offer the following data. Here is the distribution of correct answers by their answer number:
- 27.73%
- 23.87%
- 24.20%
- 24.30%
- Section #1 : (regulations) only 20.79% of answers are “2”
- Section #2: 29% of answers are “1” whereas only 18.35% of answers are “3”
- Section #3: 29% of answers are “1”
- Section #4: 36% of answers are “2” and < 15% of answers are “3”
- Section #5: 31% of answers are “1”
- Section #6: 30% of answers are either 1 or 2
- Section #7 & 8: 33% of answers are “4”
Not a terribly even distribution of answers if you ask me… I always suspected there was some skew to the distribution though I had never analyzed it until now.