Since the U.K. has left EASA, why do the exams have to follow their 120 questions / 9 subjects diktat?
Seems that with most of the professional UK schools now decanting out to supervision of a friendly EASA country such as Denmark or Austria, the only aviation the CAA will have oversight of is PPL training.
They could show some independence by ditching this tangle of exams and go for something more sensible and ICAO compliant. Just one exam, as with the FAA, or maybe two as suggested above.
And stop hiding the questions from even the “Examiner”. We will look a total prat when we can’t even tell them where they went wrong and why!