We now have a whole new
website.
coast-guard-exam.net
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Welcome to SeaSources
As you navigate through this site,
whether for the purpose of studying for a Coast Guard exam, to review
or sharpen your nautical skills, or just to keep the Rules of the
Road, Colregs, fresh in your mind, you will be introduced
to over 80,000 questions and answers covering all categories of
subject matter for both Deck and Engine Room used by the United
States Coast Guard for license examination. All related illustrations
which are used in reference to the questions are included and can
be seen by clicking on "see diagram" when it is present
during a quiz. The online quizzes are presented in an interactive,
easy to use, point and click, multiple choice format. As you work
through the quizzes you will find some questions that are very similar
in content but may vary slightly in either the wording or in the
order in which the answers appear. Work through them anyway. You
have the choice of taking these questions directly as 20 question
groups or randomizing whole subjects. This is the first and only
site where you will find that All of the questions used are from
the National Maritime Centers database of questions used by United
States Coast Guard, USCG, Regional Exam Centers for administering
tests and are categorized into their specific subjects for targeted
study as is displayed in the column on the left. After two or three
times through a quiz you will see your scores rapidly improve. Move
on to the next quiz and repeat the process. Check your score history
frequently to see which subjects you may need to review.
The new SeaSources online testing site
is now available with the Score History as well as many other
new features which we hope will make studying for your exams
enjoyable as well as more affordable. All of the individual subject
modules listed on the left are available for download directly from
the online test site as well as free upgrades whenever any changes
or additions are made to questions or illustrations. Anyone who
has previously purchased SeaSources software will be eligible for
free upgrades to their modules which were purchased on CD or downloaded.
For new users of
SeaSources online study, just click on Enter Online Study Room
above and go to Create a New User Account, fill out
the registration information accurately, enter a valid email address
which will be your username, and choose a password that is 5 to
16 characters long. Remember that the password is case sensitive
and this will be your final password to log in with. No other passwords
will be emailed to you. Once you have created the account you will
then check your email inbox for a validation email to confirm the
account. If you do not see the validation email please check
to make sure it did not go to your spam folder. Clicking on
the validation link will take you back to the log in page. The registration
information is necessary for the score keeping and progress reports,
which are now available in the new test site, and allow registered
members to see a history of their scores and progress on all previous
quizzes taken. After you are in the system you can alter
your personal information and password. All personal information
and e-mail addresses are kept strictly confidential and are not
given out to mailing lists nor do we use addresses to bombard you
with useless Spam.
Our database is being edited and updated
frequently as well as more subjects and illustrations added to make
this site a reliable source of information for all members to use
as a supplement to there exam preparation study or general knowledge.
Many new illustrations have been added to the database that are
excerpts from the material needed to solve specific questions. Rules
of the Road and Aids to Navigation are good examples of this. One
of our goals is to eventually have a solution or reference illustration
to each question. This is what makes this service unique. Anyone
who would like to participate by submitting illustrations or solutions
to be attached to questions are welcome to do so. Just ask for details
on how to submit them. Mariners working together can make this site
one of the most powerful tools on the web for fellow mariners. Group
participation is highly encouraged! Get involved.
The new downloadable software modules
from the online study are ready to go These packages are available
to install on your pc or laptop and are upgradeable free of charge
whenever changes or improvements take place.
To see instructional videos
on all of the functions of our services click here. If you were
a member of of the old online study and have previously purchased
software from SeaSources on any module, you are already qualified
to receive the new upgrades to that module. The installable version
includes score keeping and score history capabilities as well as
being able to create your own practice final exams.
Please feel free to make comments or suggestions on this system
while it is still in the development stages. If you would like
to participate in the testing of this new software then
Download it Here.
Your username and password from the online study are needed to open
the new software.
Join the thousands of members who
have successfully and affordably prepared for their Coast Guard
Exam with SeaSources.net. When using the service we recommend using
either Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, or the latest version of
IE as a browser. Listed in the column to the left are the subjects
covered as they appear in the online study. If you arrived on this
page by doing an internet search on this subject then you need to
proceed to the Enter Online Testing Site link above and Register
to create an account and get the full benefits of using this site.
The latest multiple choice questions on this topic can be downloaded
and installed to your computer by creating an account in the online
study and installing the latest version of the "Betabox Software".
We are 100% current with the CG question databank.
26 Oct 2023.
Click
here to review the new question databank from the NMC.
Click here to see detailed video instructions on using SeaSources.net
online license preparation.
If you are currently a user of the
New Online Study, any downloads and purchases made through your
old online study account can be rolled over to the
new software based
on the New Online Study Database.
Note: You will not receive a recorded
score to your history for each quiz unless you complete the
quiz.
Note: If your personal user
account is being accessed by multiple users it would be more to
their advantage to create their own account in order to receive
the benefits of having their own
personal score history attached
to the quizzes they take.
Note: Any discrepancies that a
user may find, as in answers that they believe are disputable, should
be reported so that corrections can be researched and entered.
A Little History
SeaSources was originally founded in 1996
for the purpose of providing an affordable alternative to the outrageous
cost of exam preparation for mariners sitting for their first license
or document as well as professionals seeking to upgrade. As I remembered
studying for my first exam back in 1979 I thought of the stack of
floppy discs that I had paid a ridiculous amount of money for and
they cancelled themselves out after you had taken X amount of quizzes
on them which rendered them useless for review later on. Their had
to be a better way. When I first started this project the database
of questions was only available in document format. All of the original
questions and answers were manually copied and pasted from a word
document format into an excel spreadsheet which, as you can imagine,
with 28,000 give or take questions was quite an undertaking. Then,
after learning Visual Basic programming, I was able to write a program
that the DB was plugged into and made available on CD. It soon became
apparent that keeping up with the new questions from the Coast Guard
as they came out was going to be very difficult as far as updating
the CD's which had been purchased. Thus the concept of the online
study was born. With the help of an excellent programmer and an
updated database we proceeded to make the questions available to
anyone for free, talk about affordable, who could access the web
and do it in a format that was easy to use as well as being able
to plug new questions into as soon as they were available. With
the development of the TesTTaker software , many thanks to my good
friend Jaime, we have been able to offer not only the online tests
but still give our members the ability to install them locally to
their computer, if they should choose, and get the new questions
updated as they come out. This has proved to be a much more efficient
system. SeaSources is currently being accessed by several of the
major maritime academies as a supplement to their exam prep on a
regular basis.
The online testing went live in February
of 2000 and has gone through many improvements since then and we
have many more to come.
Thank you to more than 70,000 registered
SeaSources online users, from the old online study and the new,
for their help and suggestions since I started this project almost
25 years ago. And thanks for spreading the word about us as this
is how many of our new members come here to study for their License.
Over 1,500,000 quizzes have
been taken between the old and the new online study.
Steve and Jaime
SeaSources Developers
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