I agree with you Negan. At least 60% of the material you learn these days is utter sh*te.
"How long is the president of ICAO elected for?"........"What is annex 4 of the such and such convention"........learning deeply about the intricacies of how beacons transmit radio signals...Questions that have been written in a foreign language and crudely translated into broken English that simply don't make sense..Sometimes you have to just 'know' the answer. There merely isn't enough time to commit the finer details to memory.
Get rid of the nonsense and make the exams relevant. As you say Negan, plenty of time to re-read the books later on.