ISED Releases New Basic Amateur Radio Question Bank
For immediate release – January 27, 2025
On January 27, 2025, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) released the new Basic Qualification Question Bank for Amateur Radio.
This new Question Bank will be used for all Basic Amateur Radio Certificate examinations beginning July 15, 2025.
Until then, the old Basic Question Bank will be used for all Basic examinations. Candidates, instructors and authors of Amateur Radio Study Guides may want to study the new Question Bank which is available for download from the ISED website at the link provided below.
Since early 2023, Radio Amateurs of Canada has had a committee of 20 instructors and Accredited Examiners (AEs) working to update and improve the quality of the 984 questions, 984 correct answers and 2,952 distractors (incorrect answers) in the Question Bank. This was the first major update to the Question Bank since 2013.
RAC’s Examinations Standards Committee (Comité des normes d’examen) (RAC-ESC-CNE) worked closely with ISED officers on the final versions of the exams which were agreed on by RAC and ISED in late 2024.
Radio Amateurs of Canada has prepared the following documents to help with the transition to the new Question Bank:
- a bilingual document which contains the old questions next to the new questions and provides notes explaining the changes
- separate English and French versions of a document containing a list of the 201 new question