Maybe if there was less attention to unimportant in the real world but important for the exam stuff, we could concentrate more on the serious things - navigating, calculating and understanding performance, procedures, etc. I don't really care about what wind is blowing in Madagascar every three years on May the 2nd in the evening, or how to write 36 in binary system. Instead of learning that, let me give more attention to operational stuff and I will satisfy my future employer!
Just my 2 cents