She worked through twenty questions before her eyes gave out. Three weeks later, she sat in a sterile conference room at the testing center. The proctor handed out the closed-book exam booklets. The room was silent save for the rustle of paper and the occasional nervous cough.
She saw her own folder: Discontinuities . She saw the screenshot of the table. She heard her own voice reading the limit: 1/32 inch .
She saw her folder: NDE Methods . The flashcard: Ultrasonic Testing (UT) .
With a sigh, she opened the PDF on her laptop and turned to a random chapter: “Part F: Visual Inspection of Welds – Undercut Limits for Cyclic Service.”