r/aviationmaintenance • u/IntelligentSea4892 • 22h ago

A&p

I've tried to take my written exams, but it's really hard to memorize 1,000 questions per exam. Could you give me some advice? I enrolled in an online school! But I can only watch videos, and it's very tedious. I'd really appreciate it if you could guide me! I'm from California! Regards!

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u/Aarkh 19h ago

I just finished my A&P, and if you go in with the mentality of I'll just memorize these, it isn't going to work out well for you. You will find a lot of questions are re-worded from prepware. While the concept is the same, if you just memorized this will throw you off.

I can also guarantee your DME will fail your oral within minutes. This is where you will must show /some/ basic understanding.

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u/Factual_Fiction 22h ago

Don’t memorize. Learn the material.

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u/Casa212 20h ago

Learn the material. Learn weight and balance formulas. Learn ohms law.

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u/BENDOWANDS 8h ago

This is the best advice you can get. The questions can change a little, the numbers may be different, or they'll flip it around and you have to solve it the other direction.

It'll also take you further in your career, the problem solving, the knowledge on how. Some of it you'll never use, but you don't know what you will and won't, so learn it all and go from there.

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u/BrtFrkwr 19h ago

Learn the material and quit trying to shortcut the process. We all had to learn it and so do you.

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u/WaveFast 21h ago

Memorization is not needed. If you have spent the requisite time working on aircraft, all three tests are passible, and there is no requirement to get 100% correct

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u/prof-bunnies 6h ago

When I was going to school we had a student that did that. You could give her the 4 digit number and she could tell you A. B. C. or D. She could not figure W&B, rivit spacing or look up any thing you in repair manual. She had about 160 hours but had not gotten her private ticket yet but did have 4 crashes, including a complete total (accordain tail, both wing separatation, bounce from tail to land on the prop and spin on the noise). Bottom line, learn in information, know how to get the answer and why it is the right one will take you far. You got this far, you are going to be learning the rest of your life .. airplanes or anything else that comes along. Go be great!

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u/DangeRanger93 2h ago

Focus on one test at a time. Learn and remember the formulas and FAR’s. Read the question once and the correct answer twice.

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u/overmyheadepicthrow 20h ago

Very little memorization needed. Go through the sections on prepware, and if there's anything you find difficult to understand, read about it in 8083 or whatever other resources you have like videos or sites off Google. Of course, ask your instructor as well.

It's highly recommended that you score a 90 or above on randomly generated tests from prepware. We all gotta do it, there's no getting around studying for the exams.