I did my exams in 1980, courtesy of UK CAA. The questions were mostly ridiculous and often (as mentioned above) it was the least wrong answer, questions were totally pointless and irrelevant, written by people either with bees in their bonnets about some fatuous point or no idea of what they were talking about. So it seems nothing has changed, but at least you know you have no reason to feel hard done by! You just need to learn the answers, as opposed to learning the subject!