Gertrude:
"An alternative to memorising the questions and answers would be to use the text books and ground school and actually learn the stuff."
I would agree, but having spent the £9 purely out of interest to see what was being asked in the EASA exams...... much of it is just "stuff" to be learned to pass the exam. Not really much stuff that is useful, in my opinion.
Now this could be sour grapes because myself and two other full-time microlight instructors with three or four thousand hours each after 8-10 years full time training couldn't pass the exams!
Yet, we can get an NPPL SSEA with just a few hours flying, and then swap that for a LAPL!
Are we really poorly educated and lacking in essential knowledge?