The GFES saga continues.......

You may think that after taking the actual exam, that the candidates would know if they passed or failed in short order. The truth is that much like the rest of the government, the NRC is bound by its own red tape. Here’s the rundown of how it’s going for us.

27 February, the exams came on site. The instructors that reviewed the exams or were proctors had to sign a statement to the NRC that they had no “technical” conversations with the students prior or during the exam period.
01 March, the instructors took the exam to generate the “preliminary onsite key.”
03 March, the exams were administered and Fedexed back to the NRC. All of the sites administering the test did so at the same time (i.e. east coast started at 1200, west coast started at 0900). We were not allowed to have any electronics or access to phones during the exam period (until 1500). As part of the unofficial evaluation, the instructors and the class reviewed each question and came up with a “best guess answer,” using the preliminary onsite key and looked for questions that may have not had a correct answer or may have had more than one correct answer.
06 March, when the NRC has received all of the exams, they will transmit via email their “preliminary” answer key. This key is preliminary because if there are challenges to the exam or key, they will be evaluated before the final key is sent out
??? the final answer key is out and the final grades are approved once all challenges are answered.


I am not concerned by the bureaucracy as I either scored a 94, 96 or 98, I just find it kind of amusing.

The rest of the “funny” associated with the exam is that one of the instructors that took the test, is hell bent that one of the answers is wrong and needs to be challenged and the rest of us think that it is just fine. He got it wrong by the way (and yes he is an @##$$).