ATPL maths skills are nowhere near A-Level. :ugh:

A (very) mediocre GCSE student could easily comprehend any maths required in the syllabus or exams - a small amount of trigonometry and a couple of 'plug in the numbers' formulae is about as taxing as it gets.

Basic arithmetic will help you out a hell of a lot more than calculus or advanced algebra once you get to the flight deck.

Well, there are some advantages to carrying an ATPL, apparently - but I would insist on some modicum of standard on all forums. If his babbling can't go there, why should it go here?

I did all my ATPL exams back in the mid nineties straight after my A Levels, IIRC at the time my take on the maths element was that it was of GCSE difficulty but A Level workload.

It may well be different now as GCSE's have without doubt got harder.

The most important formula you need to grasp is:

Cost of flying/X = what you tell your wife

Where X is a number as large as you can get away with without blushing but always greater than 2

I've solved this one by having another hobby (being an elected politician) which is even more expensive, thus making the flying look cheap by comparison.

Could I just point out that our OP is in Karachi.

GCSEs and A-leves are British exams, I'm pretty certain that they mean absolutely nothing to him. I'm sure there are perfectly good school exams in Pakistan, but they'll be different to the British version.

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Since when have GCSEs gotten harder? I find that hard to believe, basically for two reasons: 1) The last 20 years we've seen the pass rate continuously increase, whilst 2) I see children of friends and relatives unable to grasp basic concepts in mathematics.

Speaking to them reminds me of a Blackadder sketch:

Blackadder: Right, Baldrick, this is called adding. If I have two beans and then add two more beans, what do I have?
Baldrick: some beans.
Blackadder: Yes... and no. Let's try again shall we? I have two beans, then I add two more beans. What does that make?
Baldrick: a very small casserole.
Blackadder: Baldrick, the ape creatures of the Indus have mastered this. Now try again. One, two, three, four. So how many are there?
Baldrick: Three.
Blackadder: What?
Baldrick: ......And that one......
Blackadder: Three and that one. So if I add that one to the three what will I have?
Baldrick: Oh. Some beans.

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Steve6443 - Too funny!:)

Numb3rs are a challange for me also - am currently studying navigation and working out the mysteries of the 'whizz wheel'!

500 Schools in Pakistan sit the Cambridge I-GCSE exams:

New Country Director for Pakistan

Remember, that when the State run GCSE syllabus was introduced the old 'O' & 'A' level boards died off. But Cambridge exams survived and were successfully marketed across the world. Furthermore, the academic standards were maintained.

Of course, back in Blighty, we were slow to notice that . . .

Harder? slight error, I meant easier :ok: