Don't be fooled into thinking that because you have been taught a subject before that it will be the same in the world of JAR.
The number of times I though well thats bollocks, and Steve who was instructing had a wry grin on his face when he could see my confusion. Then at the end he did clarify that i was right but thats not the answer they are looking for.
Unfortunatly us mechanical type engineers really do have a huge advantage over the other students. The ability to revert back to first principles to have a educated guess at an answer is such a bonus. But then again we did slog through 3-4 years of getting beaten into being problem solving machines.
I think the prime example for the was induction tacho's there was 6 questions on it in my systems paper and it was covered by .75 of a page in the notes. If i had't done a project which involved Data aquisition of the natural freqs of drive shaft, I don't think I would have passed.
MJ