Wow...from my insider friends, the FLS is academically oriented and if you didn't have any smarts (education wise) you would not have a snowballs chance in hell of passin. You did good pard...now pass the whiskey...oops, I don't know if that's proper protocal these days...
Pablo
HP 35 ?
One should assume, I suppose, that you have used HPs before.
For the PLS, I would say, programming is less important.
You assumed you weren't ready, but passed anyway. Congrats are in order, if in fact you were ready, but not if you were just lucky.
My son gave me his HP 35 after he passed the ME PE. I use it if it is closer than one of my HP 11s, and find them similar enough. Only the seldom used keys on either require searching for. I do not like the fact that in converting from degrees.minutes-seconds to degrees.decimal the yellow/blue key sequrnce is reversed.
Paul in PA
HP 35 ?
RTC was 2 years of daily HP races, & so prepared me extremely well, but I was rusty by a few years. Before I started studying, one morning at test-time I worked the practice exam cold in the alloted time. I got 50%, not good enough. But I saw my blind spots and I worked through every problem I missed until I got it.
Had I taken your excellent advice to use the HP for fieldwork for a couple of months before the test I might have been a hair faster. I "finished" each session in two hours but I spent the other two hours beating those last half dozen stumpers into line. Glad I did. Might have made all the difference. The test experience burned away any doubt and I walked out feeling sure, not that I had passed but that I would pass eventually. Maybe "luck" was those folks who left at two hours. Maybe they were better prepared. If luck is a reliance on probability, then you can make your own luck with redundancy.
Got the temporary certificate in the mail today, so now to apply for whatever's next.
