Mark_Levesque
02-14-2008, 04:59 PM
Can we have a quick discussion about additional CPP questions? Ch13-15 are "Special Techniques," "View Camera," and "The Zone System." None of these chapters figure prominently on the test. There might be one question from each, and they are basic enough that if you read the chapter you ought to get them, and if you didn't read the chapter you have probably a 50/50 chance of getting them right. Is there enough value for me to bother with them? I am more inclined to spend my energy going over 2,3,4 and 5 again (camera, lens, light and film, exposure).
I take this pretty seriously for having been volunteered, constructing my own questions that are as close as I can manage to the sorts of questions you will actually see on the test. I figure you call can go to the companion site and practice there, so there's no point in simply copying those over. So I go through the chapters again and find topics that seem significant and put together questions on those. It takes more time than you think, and it's hard to come up with questions that mimic those you will see on the test. (I read Kirk's objections with some distress, but that's how the questions are worded on the test so I felt that leaving the ambiguity in the question would be more helpful than a question worded with more precision and specificity than you will see on the actual test. In fact, that was one of my complaints about the test- some of the questions could have been worded more precisely.)
So given that my time to work on these questions is limited, I see four options. Tell me which you'd prefer, and we'll decide based on that.
A) Revisit Chapters 2-5
B) Continue with chapters 13-15 (and why didn't you get them done this week?!!)
C) Don't bother, we've pretty much got it
D) Someone else takes over
E) no one's paying attention anyway*
*I know. I shouldn't have. But it really strikes me as hilarious, so I did. :p
I take this pretty seriously for having been volunteered, constructing my own questions that are as close as I can manage to the sorts of questions you will actually see on the test. I figure you call can go to the companion site and practice there, so there's no point in simply copying those over. So I go through the chapters again and find topics that seem significant and put together questions on those. It takes more time than you think, and it's hard to come up with questions that mimic those you will see on the test. (I read Kirk's objections with some distress, but that's how the questions are worded on the test so I felt that leaving the ambiguity in the question would be more helpful than a question worded with more precision and specificity than you will see on the actual test. In fact, that was one of my complaints about the test- some of the questions could have been worded more precisely.)
So given that my time to work on these questions is limited, I see four options. Tell me which you'd prefer, and we'll decide based on that.
A) Revisit Chapters 2-5
B) Continue with chapters 13-15 (and why didn't you get them done this week?!!)
C) Don't bother, we've pretty much got it
D) Someone else takes over
E) no one's paying attention anyway*
*I know. I shouldn't have. But it really strikes me as hilarious, so I did. :p