Your milage may vary, but if you only work with the Confuser you'll fail some...
Evo,
I beg to differ. I didn't have much time to redo the exams (I did them the first time twenty years ago) and so bought the confuser and crammed it. I took the lot in one sitting and passed them all with 85%+. I had a couple of the Thom books, but only really looked at them to clarify questions as and when they arose. I await the self-righteous brigade telling me I'm therefore a danger to every living thing that moves on this planet, to which I reply: B@ll@cks.
You get reasonably good at passing exams in medical school and I can safely say that the surest way to do so is to know most, if not all, of the questions. Actually, I find knowing the questions a very good of way of learning the subject too -- makes sure you don't get sidetracked by irrelevancies. Anyway, if the CAA put 1/2oz of effort into the exams they could make them far more robust and partially foil skivers like me.
Huzzah for unimaginative bureaucrats, I say.
QDM