-
Please take a moment and update your account profile. If you have an updated account profile with basic information on why you are on Air Warriors it will help other people respond to your posts. How do you update your profile you ask?
Go here:
Edit Account Details and Profile
The basics of API
- Thread starter Crowbar
- Start date
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.
(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
So it all goes something like this?
teeney weenies are cool......loved my time at Saufley....class 18-71....flt 18...then off to T-28's.....way cool....
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?
You do take the cake but I still get a kick out of the dude who double-majored in Women's Studies and French Literature at Berkeley, and got command to boot!
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.
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.
Our aero instructor asked all the aero majors to raise their hands at the beginning of class, then promptly told them to shut up, color and not overthink things. Then he started talking about bernoullis and.....eh, I forget the rest.