CPL Groundschool exams.
Bose-x,
First of all, I must appologise for not responding to your comment on my post before now. My computer has been sick and I have thus been 'off the air' for a couple of days.
I should be very interested to hear whether the German questionbank you used held the actual questions used in the CPL. At the time I took the CPL exams, which was in 2003/4, JAA were still trying to keep the content of the question bank secret. Students in Denmark and Belgium were in process of forcing their hand by making them publish it in Denmark and Belgium under the freedom of information acts in those two countries, but we never got to see the real questions here in the UK and at first had to make do with bootleg feedback questions from unofficial sources.
An on line questionbank did become available during that time, which I did use, called 'Abacus', but at the time this only claimed to offer 'JAA-like' questions, and not the real thing.
Apart from that, all I can point to is the fact that some people seem to be able to pass exams without too much difficulty and some don't. Why this should be may be partly to do with the personality of the individual, although I suspect other factors may be at work also. Sadly, I belong to the latter category. The one thing I do notice is that the people who pass exams consistently always claim not to be clever!!!
Joking aside, however, the purpose of our responding to RudeNot2's post has been to try to help him/her on the basis of our own experiences. Your experience of the CPL exams has been good: mine has been bad. RudeNot2 needs to hear all shades of opinion to help him/her to come to a decision whether to proceed with CPL or not.
However, what I say about the nature of the CPL exams is, I truly believe, fact.
Best regards,
Broomstick.