... to a professionally prepared test, which goes way beyond knock, knock, who's there? Most notary tests, if not all, that I/we have been required to take for some lame reason or another are not created by professional test preparers but by amateurs who may know their subject but do not have even the most basic skills in logic, grammar, reasoning or punctuation to test others. That's why our tests are all riddled with irrelevant trick questions thought up by people who think they're being cute or funny but they're just being silly and wasting paper and everybody's time. Fortunately, many seasoned, serious notaries can see beyond all that when being tested, but these tests can easily stump others who may know enough about a subject but get trapped by off-topic, poorly prepared questions. They expect a serious test and then they get questions about removing mustard on the borrower's kitchen table. Mostly these tests serve only to aggravate. And that includes first and foremost the infamous, legendary CA state test, which I've taken through several renewals, and then to a much lesser extent the NNA test Marit refers to. The CA test is clearly prepared by a bunch of giggling, bored staffers on their coffee breaks. That's because the SOS office is too cheap to hire professional test preparers who would produce a product that could genuinely test a person's knowledge and that would benefit both the future notary and the public. I suspect that's true in most other states as well, and it's also clearly true on the NNA test ... though it's not nearly as bad as the CA test in irrelevancy.
Incidentally, I recall many years ago I missed a couple of questions on the 123 test, and Jeremy himself called me about it (why I'm not sure) and I went through these questions with him, explaining that they were never going to elicit the information he was seeking because they were such a hurricane of ill logic and bad grammar, and he ended up rewriting them. But most of these test givers just want to trip us up. They don't want to test our knowledge or lack of in areas that really matter. Only to give us a hard time. And the sad thing is they think they're the experts and we're the dummies. LOL. |
