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Fermi2:
I'm still not sure why people think Navy Nukes have any more basic skills that anyone else to be a successful commercial nuke. Fact is it's not true.

I'm NOT a big fan of the POSS. The intent is to put you in a high pressure situation and make you work quickly. You have to answer a lot of questions quickly in order for it to even be graded, if you don't you fail. It's so Anti Ethical to how a nuke thinks its not even funny, then again as a test of adaptibility I guess it does its job. Most Navy nukes aren't all that adaptable. They become victims of their training and not products of it.

I took the POSS 7 times and completed it everytime but I read and think quickly. During 3 of the times I took it guys I graduated nuke school were there, and I mean guys who did 3.6 or better. I was the only one of the group of guys I knew who passed. Since they were escorted out immediately after the test I don't know what tripped them up.

I think a much harder test is the one that So Cal Edison gave for Chemistry Technician. It was tougher than any Chem test I took in the Navy and as an ELT.

Mike

ChiefRocscooter:
I was going under the basic premsis that the Navy nuke have had to take so many tests and given his (and now adays her) basic educational level they should not be rattled...  But I do conceede that they are not used to being really pressed for time on thier tests and I can also imagine that many of them go in blind (assuming they already know it all).  If you do not take the tie to look into it (like those of us wanabes here on this board) I guess you could get burned.

I guess the followup question I would have is how many of them knew it was coming and still bombed it, and do you think they were unprepared or uncapable.

On one level I can relate to the basic concept because when I was on recruiting duty I saw several guys kill the coding speed, and math knowledge section but get killed in the Arithmatic Resaoning (alg math). Then another guy would do the oppsite.

Rob

Fermi2:
I'm just amazed the nuke industry, which stresses good careful work uses a test where speed is the utmost.

As for the guys who failed it... One was a very sharp guy from my nuke school section named Mark P. He had a 3.7 Nuke School Average and I though was one of the brightest people I met in the Navy. When he failed the POSS at DTE it was the 3rd time he'd failed it within a year. So he knew what was coming.

Another guy named Dave, who was a student of mine at Prototype walked into a POSS test without knowing what was gonna be on it, he hadn't been in the industry since 1990, hasn't taken a test since 1989 and damn near aced the thing.

Mike

ChiefRocscooter:
So I guess that means it is a least a good aptitude test for what it tests for! Now as to weather that aptitdue is what is requierd to be a good operator, I will have to defer to your judgement.

I plan on busting my butt to be prepared! I often have trouble with my brain being faster than my hands and mouth so I hope I can over come it. I have read the threads on preping and think most of the key are things I am good at but we shall see.
Hopefully I am more like Dave than Mark!

hamsamich:

--- Quote from: Broadzilla on Aug 21, 2006, 03:10 ---I'm still not sure why people think Navy Nukes have any more basic skills that anyone else to be a successful commercial nuke. Fact is it's not true.

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that's silly. so you are saying picking anybody off the street and trying to train him to be a Commercial Nuke is going to be just as easy as an Ex-Navy Nuke.? C'mon now, please anybody trying to glean info disregard this post.  Let's get real here.  Re-Phrase that one or explain it.  An Ex-Navy nuke has worked in a nuclear plant whereas some other random guy hasn't even worked with nuclear... i think it is good to have some navy guys and some non-navy guys but you've made a silly statement that you may need to edit, right?

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