-=> Quoting Daryl Stout to Nancy Backus on 04-06-19  12:00 <=-

 NB>> Or any other standardized test.... yup, very similar, except the
 NB>> circles are bigger for the voting....

 DS> On the ham radio license exam answer sheets, the examinees are
 DS> instructed to make a solid circle over the desired answer (A, B, C, or
 DS> D). We lay a grading template with holes in it, over the sheet, and we
 DS> grade it that way. Some have just circled the answers, but didn't fill
 DS> them in...and it looked like they didn't do anything at all...which
 DS> would be an instant failure of the exam.

Dunno... it isn't totally intuitive that "solid circle = circle and fill
in", so one would hope that there's a little explanation given at the
start of the exam....  I can see how just the open circle could be
hidden by the grading template, or be larger than the templates holes...

ttyl       neb

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