One of the objectives of the written examinations is to see if you can pass them in a limited period of time, in other words it is a measure of how much information you can absorb and retain in a given period of time (10 years forget it!).
As time is fundamental to the issue so is planning, with the exams coming to a well advertised end, planning is utmost. Hopefully, those who have come up against the deadline will be somewhat better at fuel planning than they were at completing the exams on time.
By the way, the CAA is not a professional body, it is a regulatory authority.