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The way I studied for the test was to use flashcards to study each subelement individualy one a day or even take 2 days for a hard subelement. The 1st pass I would read all the questions with all the answers, there are some questions that the wrong answers make it obvious what the right answer is. I also would make sure I didn't study the wrong answers, I didn't want to get them stuck in my head.

The 2nd pass through the flashcards, I would only have it show the correct answers. I spent more time reading this then the 1st pass, I wanted to get the correct answers stuck in my head.

The 3rd pass I would have it "check my answers", I also made sure to have checked to "list missed questions". When going through the 3rd pass when I would miss a question I would reread the question again and then reread the correct answer, then move on to the next question until it was done. Once you have made it all the way through the subelement it will list all your missed questions, I copied all them and then made a text document on my desktop named "missed questions" then pasted them into that text document. We will come back to missed questions in the next step. Now I would do "view missed questions" which just goes over only your missed question and do this until you get them all right. This is were I would stop for the day.

The next day I would redo the 2 pass and 3rd pass if you get better than a 85% move on to the next subelement. If you feel like you did good enough the day before just do the 3rd pass, make sure to get at least a 85% and move on.

Now in your free time of this or on a day you can't do a full subelement you can take your missed questions that you saved and use this page and it will make a test of only these missed questions, this will help beef up your score. You can use missed questions from as many subelements as you want. When you make it through all the subelements take the final exam on this page.

Videos

I just ran across this but seems like it could be a great studying aid. His page is called 'The Ham Whisperer'

He breaks down the test by the element/pool and goes every question and gives hints on helping you memorizing it making it easier to pass the test.

I recommend starting with Tech License Intro and Lesson 1 and just work your way threw all the questions by pressing the 'newer post' to watch all his videos. Here is an index page as well.

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Technician Class - Element 2 Question Pool PDF
General Class - Element 3 Question Pool PDF & Graphic Diagram Effective July 1, 2007 until June 30, 2011
Extra Class - Element 4 Question Pool PDF Effective 7/01/08-6/30/12
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The 2nd pass through the flashcards, I would only have it show the correct answers. I spent more time reading this then the 1st pass, I wanted to get the correct answers stuck in my head.

The next day I would redo the 2 pass and 3rd pass if you get better than a 85% move on to the next subelement. If you feel like you did good enough the day before just do the 3rd pass, make sure to get at least a 85% and move on.