: Posted by Commodore Katherine Dedul (Academy Commandant/Commanding Officer (USS Columbia)) in Prospective GM
: : Posted by Terry Calvin in Prospective GM
: : If a member wished to apply for GMT status and could meet all club requirements as they stand at this time. Should they take the old exam or wait on the new one?
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: : I ask because I myself am interested and there are at least two others that have expressed this same question to me. Thanks for your help on knowing how we should proceed.
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: : =Terry Calvin
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: Terry(and all those interested in the GMT program),
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: Keven has stated that the GM department will accept anyone who has passed any GM exam(whether it be this one or the old one).
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: However, you may want to give us a few days, you must have read our minds because the President, Kevin and I just started a discussion on the GM exam via e-mail. We're looking to either re-write the exam by taking out the questions identified earlier as irrelevant or possibly altering the pass rate(it's 75% right now, we could possibly lower it to say 70%).
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: I will make the announcement once we've figured out our temporary solution(The course will be revised, but GMs are a bit stretched now, so I'm thinking that revision will need to be put off for a few months) so we can get more people interested in the GMT program accepted into it. :)
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: If you want to go ahead and write the test though, by all means, whatever our solution, the exam as it stands right now will still get you accepted into the program if you write it and pass.
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: Kat

Alright, as promised I have an announcement.

The exam will be re-written, based upon the discussions of it way back when, removing the irrelevant questions, changing the wording of others. The expected timeline of when this new exam will go live will be around the 10 or 11th of March(Maybe sooner, I'm hoping sooner, but you never know sometimes LOL), but once it's live I will announce it here.

You have a choice though folks, as I said, you can write the exam as it stands now or you can wait for the new exam to go live. Passing either exam will get you a spot in the GMT program. :)

~Kat