Thanks everyone for all your feedback, it has helped me no end, but I have another question to ask of you.
Do any of you think it’s possible to complete all of the exams from just reading and memorising the PPL confuser? (no manuals what so ever?) Ooooooow I here you cry!
All comments so far about "learning" a subject for knowledge and "cramming" a subject for passing exams is fully taken on-board for two reasons, firstly I have every intention to recover all the material in the manuals when I return to the UK in order for me to be a more safer and competent pilot and secondly I work as a IT Engineer and have "Crammed" with the best of them in order to pass a exam to get more pay ect and never once after doing a exam like that did I think I could go off and do what the exam says I could now do. So I do understand the issues.
But bearing in mine the above do you think it's possible