CID advice

[Carl]

I am going to take the CID test at the end of this month up in MA, and I was wondering if anyone who has taken the test could give me any hints (short of cheating of course :eek: ). I elected not to take the course, because I am paying out of pocket, so I am at a slight disadvantage. There is a bunch of docs in this thread, is there anything I should pay extra special attention to? I do of course have the study guide.

thanks
-Carl

[cadpro2k]

Carl,

You should do fine. The test is very preliminary, and took me ~20 minutes to go through. The only got-cha will be the questions that you think MUST be right but they are ambiguous, and could be answered another way. Those will get you. The workshop is only so the instructor can 'set you up' for the test.
My one suggestion: go thru the test and answer all the ones you know right off the bat. Leave any in question, and come back to them the 2nd time through. Get as many additional ones you can in a short period of time, then all your left with are the "tricky" ones. At that point you're 50/50 on the few remaining. Worked for me.
BTW, there are principles and questions related to these principles that came from the 1960-1980s still in there, so don't expect the test to be based on anything really current. Also, study up on the principles of Geometric Tolerancing. :)

Good day.
Mitch