Ham Radio General Question Pool Viewable with Datasette

The twelve year old here is routinely passing practice exams for the United States amateur radio technician class license. Consequently, she and I started to work on updating our practice exam app to the latest general class question pool. We wrapped up the new deployment of the app earlier this afternoon, and I just wrote a python script to dump the question pool into a sqlite3 database.

With the question pool all databased up, my next fun project was to study the questions in Simon Willison's datasette app. This allowed me to find out a few interesting things about the question pool right away. As an example, supposing you were to just go in to the test without studying and guess answers? Is there an answer you'd be better off leaning towards? A facet of the question pool based on the correct answer, (A, B, C, or D), indicates that no guessed answer is particularly better than any other:

I suppose you'd get a tiny bias guessing either 'B' or 'C', but I don't think it'll make the difference for you.

I also found out there are only three questions remaining in the general class pool that deal with vacuum tubes:

The kid and I are still learning datasette, but it seems like it should be possible to let everyone explore by writing a script that installs datasette on a GitHub codespace, and then forwards the localhost to the browser on your machine...

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