ATPL Pass Mark

[ncusack]

Hi;
Anyone know what is the pass mark in the ATPL exams?

Thanks;

Ncusack

[Flypuppy]

75%

or seventy five percent, just so I can post this message. :rolleyes:

[ncusack]

Flypuppy;
Good man. Thanks alot.


It is high though!!!!:uhoh:

[buzzc152]

It is quite high but with some commit and hard work it's fairly easily achieved. There's nothing too difficult to get you head round.... just lots of it (he says getting 73% in instruments. D'oh!)

[Hulk]

high 75%, are you kidding man?

a pilot has no place to mistakes, it should be 100%.
:p

[ncusack]

high 75%, are you kidding man?


I bet you didn't say that before you had them all passed!!!!! :)

[Hulk]

wrong, I did 100%(-21%) ;)

[ncusack]

As long as I do 100% (-25) I don't care a damn!!!!! :=

[Martin1234]

Anyone knows if the UK CAA and/or Swedish CAA is considering 74,57 percent as a pass?

[Fuel Crossfeed]

I believe there was a time when it was 75% with negative marking!!

[glider]

You actually have to pass 75 %, so 74.99999 % is a fail.

/Mange

[Trislander]

From what we've been told they actually round the percentages up to the nearest whole %, so even 74.1% is a pass.

Can't guarantee this but I have been told this by several people.

75% is a reasonable pass rate, after all, we aint learning to drive a bus! (Before someone comes back with a naff Airbus 'bus' joke, I mean the road variety!)

Cheers, Tri :ok:

[OneIn60rule]

in France I believe it used to be 80% pass mark.
75% is by no means high in my book (I did fail some exams though!).

Even my PPL had a pass mark of 75%.


I don't believe the CAA ever rounds up if it's 74.1, 74.2 ,74.3
74.4, 74.5. It will always become 74%.

So if you get 74.9999999 then it's still a fail. Sadly that's the way it works.

[boeingbus2002]

I heard that in some countires, (Denmark) they allow students to see what questions they got wrong. Is is invaluable since you may pass but there maybe something crucial that you dont understand. Is there any reason why the UK CAA dont allow this "feedback"?

[parris50]

I believe this is true in the USA too. I've heard that you get your paper marked as soon as you have finished and you get book references so that you exactly how you went wrong.

[OneIn60rule]

About Denmark. A friend of mine suspects that it's because of the national law in Denmark that says that you must allow people to see their exams so that they know what part of the exam they failed on.

As to whether this is true I don't dare say.


Yes it's true that in America they get REFERENCE numbers printed out after their exam and they can then verify the questions they got wrong. This applies for PPL, IR, CPL.

I cannot say whether this is true for the ATPL except that I know they also have a GLEIM (the books with all the questions ever asked on exams and all the answers as well as explanations to each answer).

Cheers,
1/60

[boeingbus2002]

References on failed topic areas would be a good start!
If the UK CAA was so keen to promote safety, I can't see why they cannot have a variation on the main rule too. (Countries are allowed to file differences arent they? - Air Law!)
If I was a cynical person, I would say it was just a ploy by the CAA to make more money from re-test fees :rolleyes:

Good luck to those who just sat the exams this week! :ok:

[BillieBob]

Countries are allowed to file differences arent they? Not for much longer. Once EASA takes over responsibility for licensing they, and only they, will decide how the requirements are implemented. Thereafter, national law in this area will be superceded by EU law.

What is, perhaps, more worrying is that all of the decisions concerning how EASA is to deal with FCL are being taken unilaterally by a single bureacrat, who has absolute discretion as to whether to take into account the opinions of the national authorities.

[BongleBear]

I've always thought the markings were rounded down

[FlyUK]

Ah the a-levels...did those last year, and this year, infact this week i am sitting 6 of the ATPL's. Well my friend, all i can say is that i did a couple of weeks hard work max for my a levels (mainly because i had a ppl and was flying when i should have been revising) and i passed 3 of 3 taken. But the atpl's are a darn sight harder! Not exactly tricky stuff but the amount of it is where the problem is. 75% is fair for the pass mark as it is actually impossible to learn everything in the manuals!

p.s can you tell i didn't do english for a-level. :O

[Vee One...Rotate]

75% is lower than an A-level pass!!

Erm, since when did getting other than an 'A' at A level constitute a fail...!?

V1R

[BillieBob]

75% is lower than an A-level pass!! Interesting - according to the QCA a mark of 57% in the 2004 A-level mathematics examination would attract an 'A' grade.

It is not possible to forecast what mark will attract an 'A' grade in the 2005 examinations since the grades are 'moderated' to ensure that the government's promise of ever increasing performance is fulfilled.

[thebeast]

and we all know that A levels are becoming easier these days!. Write your name at the top and you've just about got a pass.