Thats excellent Jim Elwell Nice that you are preparing your technical employees for a CAMS test.
Perhaps every company should give a simple orientation towards metric units. For ex Soda, Wine, Juice industries should teach the equivalents between liter and ounce, pint, gallons, etc. Butter, Cheese, Meat and Jam makers should teach between kilogram and ounce, pound, etc. Mainly the media should give their reporters the orientation on all measures used in daily life. Keep it up Madan --- Jim Elwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On a lighter note than the ongoing debate: > > (1) If you have a PDF file of the set of metric > flashcards I created, there > are two errors that need to be corrected. First, the > Celsius to Kelvin card > is wrong (should be oC +273.15 --> K). Second, the > card that says "estimate > the mass of a nickel," should be "nickel: 5 g" on > the back. > > (2) I had nine technical employees (engineers and > technicians) take an > "in-house" version of the CAMS test last week. Seven > of nine failed. Some > comments: > > (a) It was a test I created, so I could be confident > they would pass before > they applied to the USMA for the real CAMS test. I > think it is a > substantially more difficult test, in part because > it is not all multiple > choice (half the questions require rewriting > something correcting the errors). > > (b) It was entirely self-study (using Dennis > Brownridge's book and my > flashcards). > > (c) The main problem was that the engineers seemed > to think they already > knew enough metric, so most did not really study > much, and were really weak > in the style area. > > (d) The two who studied hard did well: 92% and 88%. > > > So I now have some more humble engineers, and will > test them again (after a > class-type review) in January. Hopefully by end of > the first quarter we'll > have a whole bunch of CAMS people at the company. > > Jim Elwell (CAMS) > > P.S. We found an error in Dennis' book that is not > in his errata. Does > anyone have an email address for him? I used to have > it but cannot find it. > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com
