Wow what a story.  I bet you were upset when you got that letter that you
didn't pass hi hi.  Yes they used to describe the diagrams to me as well.  

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Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2011 12:56 PM
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Subject: Re: fcc exams

I had my Conditional.  In 1975, I decided to upgrade.

My dad and I went to the Detroit office of the FCC.  They had a Braille copy
of the General exam which I took.  But, the engineer couldn't find the
scoring key, so he said let's assume you passed.  He game my dad the
Advanced test to read to me; and he came in to do the schematic
descriptions.  I passed that, so he did the same with the Extra.

In one of the diagrams, he described it and said there is a PNP transistor
and he described what it was hooked to.  Then, on the third question asking
about the schematic, he says "Oh Shit!  I gave you the answer to this..." 
The question was "what kind of transistor is this?  To prove to him that I
would have known, I told him that the arrows pointed inward.  I passed that.

A couple weeks later, the FCC sent me a letter that I had not passed the
General, but then a couple weeks later, I got another letter which said I
did pass.  A couple weeks after that, I got my Extra.

Steve, K8SP