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Bristol QB for IAA Exams

  • 07-02-2013 8:39pm
    #1
    happy_head
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 162 ✭✭


    Hey, I am considering signing up to the Bristol question bank to use for revision for my upcoming IAA ATPL exams. Does anybody have any experience using this QB and taking the IAA exams? Were there many questions in the exams that you recognised from the Bristol QB? Thanks guys!


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  • #2
    LeftBase
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 743 ✭✭✭LeftBase


    happy_head wrote: »
    Hey, I am considering signing up to the Bristol question bank to use for revision for my upcoming IAA ATPL exams. Does anybody have any experience using this QB and taking the IAA exams? Were there many questions in the exams that you recognised from the Bristol QB? Thanks guys!

    When I did the ATPLs it was basically the Bristol QB on a page.....

    To be honest many of the questions on the exam are asked in such and way or have answers that you really need to have seen before to get.

    Performance and the other subjects that have a lot of maths have answers on the exam that are not the answer you get off the graph etc. They tend to round them. So if you get an answer of say 2550 off the graph they may round it to 2600. However 2500 may also be an option but there is no 2550 there. It can be a pain.

    I passed all 14 first go with a 91% average and owe it to Bristol.

    I cannot recommend it enough!


  • #3
    happy_head
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 162 ✭✭happy_head


    Cheers Leftbase, exactly the answer I was hoping for :D I know where you are coming from with the rounding of answers, I got caught out with a few like that in some of the progress tests. Is there a JAA/EASA database that all National Authorities take questions for their exams from?? Or how do bristol have some of the same questions?

    Oh yeah, before anybody has a go at me, I have studied the material very well, im not just learning the QB, just using it as a tool for revision.


  • #4
    LeftBase
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 743 ✭✭✭LeftBase


    happy_head wrote: »
    Cheers Leftbase, exactly the answer I was hoping for :D I know where you are coming from with the rounding of answers, I got caught out with a few like that in some of the progress tests. Is there a JAA/EASA database that all National Authorities take questions for their exams from?? Or how do bristol have some of the same questions?

    Oh yeah, before anybody has a go at me, I have studied the material very well, im not just learning the QB, just using it as a tool for revision.

    It's a central JAA QB afaik.

    Oh btw on the Flight Planning exam the IAA use the questions that the Bristol QB tell you wont be on the exam because Bristol bases it on the CAA primarily. But they have 99% of the ones you'll get on the IAA exam. They are on fuel tankering afaik. Assume every question could come up even if they tell you it wont!

    And do both Version 2 and 3 QBs on Bristol and questions are drawn from both!


  • #5
    happy_head
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 162 ✭✭happy_head


    Thanks a mill Leftbase


  • #6
    globemaster1986
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 351 ✭✭globemaster1986


    As with LeftBase I found the Bristol QB to be of enormous benefit. However I finished my ATPLs before the IAA changed the exam formats (in early 2012 I believe it was) as did LeftBase I suspect, I would advise speaking to someone who has done the more recent ones to see if Bristol is still good.

    Studying the material is a must but you really need to see some of the questions too as they can be unclear/confusing at first sometimes. Also some of them appear to have been written in another language and translated via google translate as they are complete gibberish in English!


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  • #7
    LeftBase
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 743 ✭✭✭LeftBase


    globemaster1986 wrote: »
    As with LeftBase I found the Bristol QB to be of enormous benefit. However I finished my ATPLs before the IAA changed the exam formats (in early 2012 I believe it was) as did LeftBase I suspect, I would advise speaking to someone who has done the more recent ones to see if Bristol is still good.

    Studying the material is a must but you really need to see some of the questions too as they can be unclear/confusing at first sometimes. Also some of them appear to have been written in another language and translated via google translate as they are complete gibberish in English!

    I finished mine in March 2012. They changed the number of questions per exam and length of some of the exams from what they has been in January but the question bank was much the same as it was before.


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