I’m aware of the EIT, I took it and passed it the first time through without having to study. I worked full time while going to college (boy, that sucked more than I care to think about). My grades were “average”, I’m sure that they would have been much, much higher if I was afforded the time to study and do my homework. But, alas I’m just a poor farm boy from the middle of no-where.
We were required to take the EIT prior to graduation, so I grabbed my CRC book, and went in prepared to bomb it. I was pleasantly surprised to see that I passed it with an overall score of 84%. I think my Professors were more shocked than I was.
I thought you were referring to a battery of tests for the Freshman/Sophmore years of engineering; to assertain competency.
I’m speaking in the context of the horror story of the USAF engineering tech hires who proved so spectacularly incompetent, so the entire category of candidates had the kibosh put on them. The prospective hires should have to take a test to show such things as being able to follow book formulas. So anyone who “graduated” because, say, some dean owed some generous alumnus a favor wouldn’t be able to spoil it for the rest.