A typical "survey" full of academic psycobable telling us the bleeding obvious. How much did this lot cost?
Best part of 12 years ago now the JAA lost a great chance to produce a sensisble & useful examination system, but like anything to do with Europe it was a compromise & fudge leading to the flawed CQB.
Fortunately some senior/more experienced training captains are now getting wise to the "rote" learning system and are questioning the wisdom of such a system. A training captain friend of mine is getting very concerned about the lack of underpinning knowledge some of his trainee F/Os arrive with.