One thing that I will say about either school Chris, I believe that when you go integrated, you are expected to sit all 14 of your ATPL ground exams in a 6month period. Now that, by anyones book, is a hard old slogg. I have my last lot of exams next week and I started a full time course in mid-April. To put it bluntly, the course was no bed of rosses - the majority of the notes were crap, some tutors were not the greatest - but heh, I'm on the final stage and fingers crossed, next Thursday, it will all be a distant memory! Now, I don't know how either FTE or OAT's groundschool fairs and I don't really know how they do it, but the idea of doing a fantastic deal of 'learning' over 6 months may be a misconception. You might do a great deal of 'learning to recognise what the answer is!' That said, people get through and get good pass rates - however they probably do it the same way as the majority - you will learn to love and respect the online question bank!