This discussion is pointless...SA comm and european ATPL are two completely different things.But it all depends on the student's desire to study.Unfortunately,for most of the people,wether in South Africa or Europe, groundschool comes up just to memorizing question bank (I know people from europe who passed their exams exactly the same way) without even trying to understand the concepts.I feel very sorry for you,Organ Donor,if your preparation for SA com exams consisted of looking through somebody's notes,that means you were not interested in gaining knowledge at all,that probably was just a simple fomality for you,because mine took 6 months of self study 8 hours every day,followed by a first time pass of all 8 subjects in the first sitting.I found out that those people who blame the system and not themselves are just extremely lazy and are not ready to do anything using their own hands and brain,they want everything to be done for them...