The whole examination system is largely worthless; there has never been a training analysis, and there is no corelation between the theoretical training and the flying syllabus. Questions were submitted to the JAA from various sources and sent to all States for comment. In the main nobody had the resources to even read the questions let alone comment, so they were accepted as is. The CAA spent a lot of time analysing questions and actually filtered out around 30% from the UK exams. Now they have no experienced ground examiners, and have no resources to do it in the future. The learning objectives were formulated from the questions, totally arse about face.
The EASA syllabus is largely the JAA syllabus but exams are now being put together by a German company called
LPLUS The quality of what they have produced so far is pretty poor. Quite why JAA garbage should cease to be valid, and have to be replaced by EASA garbage simply reflects the level of ignorance of those shovelling rules around; they don't even know enough to recognise how poor and irrelevant most of the questions are.