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The basics of API

False. API is designed for students from varying academic backgrounds who have already proven basic aptitudes through their ASTB scores. I went through flight school with a 10th grade education. It's not rocket science.

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False. API is designed for students from varying academic backgrounds who have already proven basic aptitudes through their ASTB scores. I went through flight school with a 10th grade education. It's not rocket science.

In hindsight, I found the academics portion of API consisted of 50% of learning/memorizing some concepts/equations and 50% memorizing the gouge test questions that inevitably float around......maybe 40%/60%.
 
In hindsight, I found the academics portion of API consisted of 50% of learning/memorizing some concepts/equations and 50% memorizing the gouge test questions that inevitably float around......maybe 40%/60%.

And (as you well know from instructing) here is the reaction, from most any primary student, when asked an aero or weather question.

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(No, junior, the stall warning does NOT just go off because of some arbitrary airspeed...)
 
true......the classes are made to be passed not failed.....as to the amount of beach time you can log:......in all probability.....Aero engineers will be at the beach more than philosophy majors.....both will pass
 
...in all probability.....Aero engineers will be at the beach more than philosophy majors.....both will pass

Not necessarily so. I saw a lot more Aero kids fail out of the program than ones who majored in Feminist Dance Therapy or whatever. The Aero kids felt like they didn't need to study - then flunked because it's not about what you know, it's about learning what you're expected to know. I had a kid who was a Meteorology major fail the Weather exam. The list goes on. The Philosophy majors were generally speaking more willing to go into receive-only mode.
 
Not necessarily so. I saw a lot more Aero kids fail out of the program than ones who majored in Feminist Dance Therapy or whatever. The Aero kids felt like they didn't need to study - then flunked because it's not about what you know, it's about learning what you're expected to know. I had a kid who was a Meteorology major fail the Weather exam. The list goes on. The Philosophy majors were generally speaking more willing to go into receive-only mode.
true.....you cant come in thinking you got it wired...you gotta do the dance. common and horse sense go a long way....once you put the books down.
 
Whoa, did he/she overthink or something?

Yeah, pretty much. when I remediated him, there was a lot of "well, I read the question and was thinking it was about this concept or that concept..." and I'm saying, okay dude, but remember during the class and during the review when I told you about this?

The guys who taught Aero saw this a lot.
 
We spend so much time learning to be "intelligent" in college its tough to revert to spoon feeding the knowledge. But thats what the Navy expects.
 
We spend so much time learning to be "intelligent" in college its tough to revert to spoon feeding the knowledge. But thats what the Navy expects.

Well, yeah. Rote memorization is pretty much a lost skill in education...and I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing. But it is a required skill for the Program, after all.
 
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