Originally Posted by
paco
In theory, if you know your stuff, you shouldn't notice any difference, which is the name of the game - they are trying to stop the database queens, and having some success by all accounts.
That argument is completely detached from reality. The exams are a tedious exercise which really don't prove much of how the state of real knowledge of the student is.
For God's sake, I remember that some exam questions required to use the 1 hPa = 27 ft assumption, while other questions required 30 ft. Depending on which assumption you used you could get one answer or another. There are plenty of things like these in the ATPL exams. I have a folder full of stupidly worded and plain wrong exam questions which only confuse students who know their stuff.
You need to sit those exams having done the questionbanks. It doesn't matter how well you've studied the books. If you don't go through the question banks you will not pass those exams.