USCG deck licensing question bank

[jamesjohner]

was wondering if someone has a copy of the ALL the deck questions from when the coast guard use to post them publicly? Thanks ahead of time

[CaptRob1]

was wondering if someone has a copy of the ALL the deck questions from when the coast guard use to post them publicly? Thanks ahead of time

At one time, you used to be able to down load them, in Excel format, from the National Maritime Center website. Not sure if you still can.

[Swampfox]

The NMC took the bank of questions off the Internet a year or two ago. Now, they just have a couple of sample questions. The hawsepipe cd and lapware seem to stay up on the questions though. The test bank is supposedly into the tens of thousands of questions.

[jamesjohner]

Yea was wondering if someone still had the file containing the questions that they could link to me.

[wmoser]

I had the files on my computer and just posted them on my web site: http://williammoser.com/uscg-test-questions.html
Hope it helps.

[Capt. Phoenix]

A friend recently took the 500 ton inland mate and got one of the "new" rules tests. He said he hardly recognized a single question from his studies.

[MariaW]

was wondering if someone has a copy of the ALL the deck questions from when the coast guard use to post them publicly? Thanks ahead of time

Wow, you're kidding. They posted them all? I think that's bad policy if you want to test people on their knowledge and not their ability to remember the answers to a discrete set of questions.

[MariaW]

So it's been suggested on this forum that the Military, like the Coast Guard and Navy, has shoddy standards when it comes to its own personnel's knowledge of seamanship. Who sets the standards and writes the tests for these Merchant Mariner exams then?

[Capt. Phoenix]

Wow, you're kidding. They posted them all? I think that's bad policy if you want to test people on their knowledge and not their ability to remember the answers to a discrete set of questions.

Well, there are thousands of questions and worded in very tricky ways.

[jamesjohner]

I had the files on my computer and just posted them on my web site: http://williammoser.com/uscg-test-questions.html
Hope it helps.

Thanks man!! I'll look out for ya

[PMC]

Standard procedure at the maritime academies used to be that everybody was to memorize three or four test questions and bring them back to school so that a database could be established. Putting the questions in the public domain leveled the playing field for hawsepipers.

In my opinion the problem is not the questions being made public. Rather the course "text books" are not text books. They are little more that the same multiple choice questions written in paragraph form.

Once again the hawsepipers get screwed. No data bases and crappy text books. Guaranteed the academies will have the up-to-date questions for their students.

[PMC]

An additional point: I learned as much from studying the data bank questions as I did taking the courses. Passed my tests first time around for 1600 mate and then 1600 master. In particular, I remember my stability book and celestial navigation books being complete jokes. Don't get me started on the GMDSS text.

I have a four year undergraduate degree and a two- year graduate degree. So I can appreciate the value of a good education. The Coast Guard is not interested in educating hawsepipipers. If they were interested, they would focus on issues like standardizing text books - not denying educational material to students.

[Jeffrox]

I wonder the USCG would be required to supply all the questions if a FOIA request was made? It seems to work for many other things.

[PMC]

The questions were originally made public as a result of the freedom of information act. At that point it was no longer necessary for the maritime academy students to bring back test questions.

[capto4476]

The Freedom of Information Act was used because the questions were so bad that no one in the whole country passed one test specifically. Without making them part of the public domain, there is no way to control the bad questions.

[mike24]

I completed all my testing in October for my 1600 master's. Used the "Hawsepipe" cd for my study material. It covered most of the material pretty well. Rules of the Road was spot on. Deck and Nav Gen were pretty close. Deck Safety and Environmental, the study material did not go as deep into the CFR's as you see on the exam. Had several questions related to carriage of different products that was not covered by the cd's.
As for my oceans endorsement. I used all the study material from Houston Marine. Went thru the class last year, so just kept working the problems. No big surprises there.