Student with a Test Question

[ZeTwinkie]

We recently took a test in our drafting class about AutoCAD. The questions we had concerns with were:

1. The Mirror command allows you to do all of the following except ______.
a. draw a mirror line at any angle
b. select an existing Line for the mirror line
c. delete old objects so the original set disappears
d. keep the new mirrored set and the old set of objects

The book said the answer was A and several students disagree and believe that none of the answers are correct.

2. When you enter a value for a Fillet Radius, the Fillet command _____.
a. prompts you to pick objects to Fillet
b. ends and returns to the Command: prompt
c. prompts you for a "first point:"
d. prompts for the number of objects

The book said the answer was B and several students disagree and believe that A is the correct answer.

If you all have any comments to help enlighten any errors in our thoughts or the book answers, I would really appreciate the input.

[Anonymous]

They are poorly worded at best but typical of book tests. They really test
you on the text in the book, not the actual behavior of AutoCAD.
1. Depends on what you mean by draw. If you mean rubber band then that
rubber band line can be drawn at any angle. If they mean that the mirror
line becomes an object, then that cannot be done so that could be correct.
B. cannot be done unless some form of the mirror command has been customized
so that would be correct. C is poorly worded but is part of mirror. D. can
be done so would be incorrect.
2. Fillet has changed over the versions so it depends on which version the
book is testing on. It is very easy for test answers to become invalidated
as versions add and change features. For the current version of AutoCAD,
the question should be "After using the fillet radius option, " then the
answer would be "fillet remains in operation and asks for objects to
fillet". The books question is close enough for the answer to be B.

Its very easy to make bad questions and very difficult to make good ones. I
don't grade by scantron because I like to see the variation of answers and
determine whether a) I taught the material b) the question was clear and
c)the student has an equally good answer that the book considered wrong.

wrote in message news:6291935@discussion.autodesk.com...
We recently took a test in our drafting class about AutoCAD. The questions
we had concerns with were:

1. The Mirror command allows you to do all of the following except ______.
a. draw a mirror line at any angle
b. select an existing Line for the mirror line
c. delete old objects so the original set disappears
d. keep the new mirrored set and the old set of objects

The book said the answer was A and several students disagree and believe
that none of the answers are correct.

2. When you enter a value for a Fillet Radius, the Fillet command _____.
a. prompts you to pick objects to Fillet
b. ends and returns to the Command: prompt
c. prompts you for a "first point:"
d. prompts for the number of objects

The book said the answer was B and several students disagree and believe
that A is the correct answer.

If you all have any comments to help enlighten any errors in our thoughts or
the book answers, I would really appreciate the input.

[Anonymous]

Sounds like some of the questions on the Architectural Registration Exam in
the way they are worded.

[sjb3d]

> {quote:title=ZeTwinkie wrote:}{quote}
> 1. The Mirror command allows you to do all of the following except ______.
> b. select an existing Line for the mirror line
> The book said the answer was A and several students disagree and believe that none of the answers are correct.
The book is wrong, as are the students who believe none are correct. The user picks the two points that define the mirror line, and these can be just about anywhere creating a mirror line at any angle. They can also pick two points on an existing line to define the mirror line. However, they can not select that existing line.

> {quote:title=ZeTwinkie wrote:}{quote}
> 2. When you enter a value for a Fillet Radius, the Fillet command _____.
> a. prompts you to pick objects to Fillet
> The book said the answer was B and several students disagree and believe that A is the correct answer.
The students are correct here. The current version of AutoCAD returns the user to the Fillet prompt, asking the user to select the first item to fillet. Earlier versions of AutoCAD (probably all the way back to R14) did return the user to the Command: prompt as indicated by the answer B. However, that was thankfully changed long ago.

If these two questions were consecutively numbered, I'd say their answers were transposed and it is a mere typographical error. Either way, the listed answers are incorrect.