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ninjanurse
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 28, 2016 10:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Time in grade is a guideline. Students who excel and meet all other requirements should not be held from rank unless there are other reasons for doing so-sometimes they just need to wait a little longer than usual to settle their ego down .


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PostPosted: Sun Aug 28, 2016 4:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

As a lot of people have said, minimum time in rank should be a guideline rather than set in stone.

There's valid arguments both way, but something I keep coming back to is no matter how well you teach, you can not teach experience. You can't give a student experience. The student has to acquire that experience, and the only way to acquire experience is time. The quality of the students' experience will differ though.
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 14, 2016 5:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I don't subscribe to time in grade requirements.
We all learn at different rates and some have natural skill and other do not and require more time to develop said skill.
If anything this is more of a guide than anything else. Something to gauge an individuals progress.
The thought that because I have trained for 7 years automatically dictates that I be afforded the opportunity to test for Shodan is a farce at best.
I have seen students that were ready to test for Shodan after four years of training and others that were not ready after 8 years of training.
Our organization states that time in grade for Shodan is 5 years minimal and 7 years normal time in grade. This is nothing more than a guide.
No one person is built the same way, has the same intelligence or has the same physical ability. Why then would time in grade mean anything?
Take myself for example; I have passed on promotions/tests because I was not ready and have been passed up on tests because I was not ready.
To have a set time frame is not practical unless you are teaching carbon copy clones.
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