ATPL help

[edhelms]

Guys, in a session can I do only two subjects?

[hoduka]

Whats odd to me, is the difference between the examination systems!

I got my result at the very end of each subject, after clicking on "submit exam".

In Hungary, we have to do it in 6 sittings within 18 months, and you can do however you like, I did it 3-3-2-2-4 in five rounds.

As far as the original question, QB is a really useful tool, but if thats the only thing you are using, you will have some head scratching moment sitting there- of course it could happen if you study the material aswell.
I read/ CBT-d/youtube-d every part before hitting the bank, writing down notes, and every questions i answered wrong or were somehow intresting. There were a few which I copied various times... Plus I tried to match them in regard of their difficulty, trying to have at least one subject what I can practice on the go (Ie. no need of supplements or desk like FPL or Gennav)
Then the day before the exam, I wrapped up the flagged questions, did one in exam mode and wrote a summary of each subject.


I dont know how are with others, handwriting these stuff down really helps, as after a few hours, you just look at the lenght of the sentences and you just click on the familiar.

I was in the same shoes until recently, Its a pain, its long, its hard but its doable!
I know, there were times I was questioning the end of the last statement!

[turbopropmike]

Hi Hoduka,

I will probably sit my exams in Hungary too!. what I am doing so far is going just thro aviation exam and try my best to understand the explanations for every question not only for those I get wrong. If still there is something that is not fully clear I would go back to the books. I am using Aviation Exam because it has way better explanations,than any other question bank Ive seen. Would you recommend AE for the Hungarian NKH too, did you see many new questions (those from the ECB4)

thanks

[hoduka]

Hi Mike!

I used aviation exam aswell, I cant recall so much new questions, maybe because they were familiar from avi exam, or from the books or university studies.
From FPL there were a bunch of new (bristol books helped me there) but from Radnav, there was one new only.

There are rumors that a new bunch of questions are coming up soon, but I dont know more about that.

You can sit Austrocontol exams in Budapest aswell.

[turbopropmike]

thanks a lot guys I really appreciate the tips. I chose Hungary because I did my PPL there. So I know how the registration system ( e-hivatal) and everything else works. for countries where English is not that good or common , to implement new questions must be tougher than for the UK I imagine. In Spain also I've been told the amount of new questions is really really small.

So many pilots nowadays with 95% average passes and now with the new system ... despite the new generation of atpl students having a better grasp of the material. maybe the airlines wont be looking so much at atpl grades anymore because of the "shortage" of pilots haha

[r10bbr]

hi negan, it feels like i should have just gone to eastern europe to do my atpls lol, and just hammer the av exam bank to aid me lol, i think in general and what has been said for uk is to do bristol, but i havent met a studnet yet who has said that even hammering the bank once and doing the last 100/200 question exams has helped them with their exams in terms of passing those who have done that have said that they could only recall maybe 5-10 questions from the bank and if that..

what i wanted to ask is that dont big schools know of when easa will be adding new questions to the exams prior to exams being sat etc..

honestly my advice is to learn and use every available means of knowledge in terms of passing the atpls and aiding that knowledge by using bristol or av exams or even both, to top up the knowledge..aside from that i think nothing else can be done.

[paco]

As far as we are concerned they can add new questions every day.

Many Eastern European authorities are still using extremely old question banks (according to a student here), so expect a higher proportion of daft questions.

[turbopropmike]

I would go for ground school in the uk and then examinations in eastern europe. I think questions in one side being new and easier to understand and on the other having old questions but with difficult wording just balance each other. At the end of the day what we are going to try to do is not only focus on the questions banks but try to undertand the material as well , given we won't know to what extent new questions will appear.

[Jaair]

Surely the UK CAA aren't pumping thousands of new questions a month? I'm guessing Negan maybe you were caught right when they added a bunch in for 2018? But someone sitting the same exam in say September may already have all those questions in the bank.

[paco]

You seem to be taking this personally........

[Officer Kite]

Originally Posted by patatas

From my experience, forget about Aviation Exam. I did a recent exam for UK CAA and from one of the subjects, none of the questions matched. From another 2 exams, I only did it because of my background experience, nothing to do with the Aviation Exam app.
They are expensive and the bank doesn’t reflect the official exams.
There are other much better options on the market, BGS for example...
Good luck!

A bank can only be as good as the feedback it receives (in the form of new questions). Regardless however, I sat my exams in Lithuania and can say without a doubt that aviationexam was my lifesaver. I would never have gotten the most strangest questions correct without having seen them already and been given the (if twisted) logic to them. I can also say for certain that the vast majority of my colleagues would back me up on that. I also know many other students sitting the exams under other European authorities and they also say the same about aviationexam. Also didn't think it was too expensive? .. certainly nothing compared to what i was paying to sit in class and learn a fraction of relevant stuff :-)

Both bgs and avexam have their merits. For short and sweet explanations it's BGS, however for decent explanations and if you want to use the bank to study a topic in itself then it's avexam with their in depth explanations.

I suppose it can depend either on the caa you're using and your personal luck of the draw in the exam.