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Old 9th Oct 2022, 14:48
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Started studying for EASA B1/B2 modules

Hello Im new to this forum so apologies if a similar question has been asked before. I just started studying for my EASA maintenance modules using Club 66 pro. My question is that if im consistently getting decent marks in the practice tests set up by club66 then am I ready to take the actual exam? My worry is that the questions being given to me by club66pro are not reflective of what is going to come up in the actual exam? Also I feel like the questions being given in this Maths module seem to be too easy, I was expecting A-level content when studying this module but it is mostly about GCSE level, can anyone clarify if this seems right?
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Originally Posted by Shoaibamin
Hello Im new to this forum so apologies if a similar question has been asked before. I just started studying for my EASA maintenance modules using Club 66 pro. My question is that if im consistently getting decent marks in the practice tests set up by club66 then am I ready to take the actual exam? My worry is that the questions being given to me by club66pro are not reflective of what is going to come up in the actual exam? Also I feel like the questions being given in this Maths module seem to be too easy, I was expecting A-level content when studying this module but it is mostly about GCSE level, can anyone clarify if this seems right?
Sorry not able to help with exam content but my in my 40 years as a licensed engineer I don't recall any very complicated maths being required. A bit of Algebra, Trig, percentages and the like was all I required.
I did O level maths at school and that was sufficient.
Your are not designing an aircraft, just maintaining it to manufacturers instructions.
One thing you will need though is an understanding of Imperial units, ie: Feet, Inches, pounds, etc. as around half the world's aircraft are built using these.

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Modules 1 (maths) and 2 (physics) are very very basic, and some EU countries (for example, Czechia) credit them automatically if you prove you had passing marks in these subjects at school.
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Originally Posted by Shoaibamin
Hello Im new to this forum so apologies if a similar question has been asked before. I just started studying for my EASA maintenance modules using Club 66 pro. My question is that if im consistently getting decent marks in the practice tests set up by club66 then am I ready to take the actual exam? My worry is that the questions being given to me by club66pro are not reflective of what is going to come up in the actual exam? Also I feel like the questions being given in this Maths module seem to be too easy, I was expecting A-level content when studying this module but it is mostly about GCSE level, can anyone clarify if this seems right?
The maths is not A level standard and is more to GCSE. It is however non calculator exam so one needs to know to do maths on paper.
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Decent marks is not enough. If you are doing the prectice questions you need to be getting 100% correct consistently. The real exams will have questions you've never seen before and as it's an 80% pass that's required you need to be nailing. It.
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Decent marks is not enough. If you are doing the prectice questions you need to be getting 100% correct consistently. The real exams will have questions you've never seen before and as it's an 80% pass that's required you need to be nailing. It.
Good luck.
When did the pass mark rise? A Brexit thing? Was 75% for the CAA papers I took 16 years ago.
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Originally Posted by Diff Tail Shim
When did the pass mark rise? A Brexit thing? Was 75% for the CAA papers I took 16 years ago.
Don't know, but has the penalty marking been removed? ie. lose a mark if you get a wrong answer. That's how it was in my day, 1980.
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Don't know, but has the penalty marking been removed? ie. lose a mark if you get a wrong answer. That's how it was in my day, 1980.
A couple of decades ago.?
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Originally Posted by Diff Tail Shim
When did the pass mark rise? A Brexit thing? Was 75% for the CAA papers I took 16 years ago.
Thinking about it, you may be right. 80% was the pass mark for my last two type ratings.
But yes penalty marking is no longer a thing.
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I always thought the penalty marking was a good thing as it showed that if you don't know the answer you would go and find out rather than guess. As a maintenance engineer guessing is not a good thing.
Also I think the oral exams were a good way of ensuring that the candidate had a good command and understanding of english and the subject, and had the right character.
I believe the dropping of oral exams was along the lines of, "when was the last time someone failed an oral exam"?
When I took my BAC1-11 type rating oral I didn't fail but was told to go away and gen up on the pneumatic system and the surveyor would ask me about it when next in the hangar. About a week later I saw him in the hangar and approached him about it. He asked, "all genned up now"?, I said yes and he said, "Well done", and that was that.
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