Pass Rates

[cookderosa]

Everytime I look into these numbers and try to help a fellow sailor trying to get his degree, I can't help but to emphasize to them the need to study. Yes, I've taken many exams cold, even DSSTs but I still tried to study something before shooting from the hip. I absolutely hate it when someone at my command takes an exam like this and flat out fails without even trying. The arguement could be made that they don't pay for it, so why does it even matter? The truth is that it does. The average college person who takes of these exams studies quite hard to pass them, even to excel at them because they pay for it. Why can't the military be like these hard-studying groups? I'll never know the answer to that.

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I don't think your military boys are any less determined or able, I think it's just human nature to jump on an opportunity where you have nothing to loose! (except for a 6 month waiting period which was more of a factor for many of us here)