Originally Posted by IO540
The student doesn't have to learn it. The student needs only to pass the exam. As has been amply demonstrated here, the questions are often rubbish.
Actually, you know, I agree with pretty much everything you've said. But I wonder if the emphasis is going back to that old nut about misleading questions.
Yes the questions are often misleading... and as other correspondents here have pointed out, that's not necessarily a bad thing. The purpose, after all, is to test the student's thinking and the model they've been taught.
My real gripe is about the model itself which appears in the "FAA Handbook for Pilots". I put the link to it in my original post, but
here it is again for anyone who would like to read through pages 2.1 to 2.8 of the PDF file.
The questions are pretty good on the basis of this theory!