ATPL Question Bank...

[agnewdarren]

Okay... So I've started studying for ATPL, haven't signed up for a course as yet, but using a very good book by Phil Croucher for initial prep, and have started using the BGS question bank...

Out of curiosity, how similar are the questions by BGS to the real ATPL exams?

Let me make it clear that it's not to see how ill prepared I can turn up to an exam, just I used question banks before for PPL and they did nothing for me for the real exams.

Thanks!

[RTN11]

A lot of the questions will be 100% the exact question word for word that you will get in an exam.

Some will be close copies, and others will just be awful.

A lot of people seem to be able to study using only the question bank and get around 75-80% on the exams. I'm not saying this is something you should do, but I think it is still possible, it certainly was 5 years ago.

The database used for the real exams is always being added to or amended, so a few new questions will appear from time to time, and this is where people come unstuck if they have only prepared using an existing database.

My only question would be why on earth have you started with the question bank before you've even signed up for the course? Is it still £50 for three months of access, therefore it will expire before you could be anywhere close to taking a real exam?

[agnewdarren]

Good question, simple answer... I can't afford it yet. Haha next month, probably CATS. :)

Thanks for the info, great help!

[paco]

"A lot of the questions will be 100% the exact question word for word that you will get in an exam."

Not in M & B & performance they won't :E

[Mr TRC]

Many of the questions in the Bristol bank are exact copies from ATPL questions, however in the last few months/year they have been trying to get as many new questions in as they can across the subjects due to Bristol, don't rely on it by learning the answers.

As Paco said before, our class had a 100% Bristol M&B exam and people mostly got very high marks (I even got 100%), the next class got a load of brand new questions with some of them being unlike anything on Bristol, in our books or practice exams and many people failed the exam. This is extraordinary as M&B is usually a furnishing exam to buff your average like IFR/VFR Comms.

This has also been the case for Performance and Principles of Flight particularly, we were told, but I'm not sure if its scare tactics, that they are trying together similar questions but opposite answers that catch people out who haven't learnt the whole thing through Bristol.

[agnewdarren]

Thanks a lot for the feedback everyone, and Phil, great book!

[N1 Limit]

Hi guys
I need any advices on how to go the ATP JAA exam,i'm currently FO on the 737NG with a CPL(i'm from west africa),however we were given exemptions to fly because our authority doesn't allow us to fly jet without at least a frozen ATP and the deadline is coming to an end,so now they're pressurizing us to sit for the 14 exams of the JAA but in the next 3 months whereas we're unprepared,is there any study tips any can tell me here and areas that is hould cover per subjects.Doing exams questi s without really in depth studies help to go for the exams?Any help is appreciated