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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 2383712, member: 112"]The amount of time it takes to learn to grade depends on three basic things, 1 -the person learning because everyone has different abilities, 2 - the amount of time and effort you expend on doing so each day, and 3 - the kind of help you get.</p><p><br /></p><p>So yeah I'll agree that one "can" learn how to grade in much less than 10-15 years. But by the same token I know people who have tried to learn how to do it for 30 years and still cannot. But then they didn't work at it every day, they didn't have the right help, nor did they have the natural ability that some have. </p><p><br /></p><p>One of the people I talked about earlier became a grader at PCGS. He related a story here on the forum that the person who was considered, by the staff at PCGS, to be the best grader at PCGS at that time was 18 years old. </p><p><br /></p><p>That kind of says a lot.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 2383712, member: 112"]The amount of time it takes to learn to grade depends on three basic things, 1 -the person learning because everyone has different abilities, 2 - the amount of time and effort you expend on doing so each day, and 3 - the kind of help you get. So yeah I'll agree that one "can" learn how to grade in much less than 10-15 years. But by the same token I know people who have tried to learn how to do it for 30 years and still cannot. But then they didn't work at it every day, they didn't have the right help, nor did they have the natural ability that some have. One of the people I talked about earlier became a grader at PCGS. He related a story here on the forum that the person who was considered, by the staff at PCGS, to be the best grader at PCGS at that time was 18 years old. That kind of says a lot.[/QUOTE]
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