{"id":17631,"date":"2016-03-03T09:39:46","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T08:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/v1-training.com\/?p=17631"},"modified":"2026-06-11T09:40:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T07:40:19","slug":"part-8-school-finals-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v1-training.com\/en\/part-8-school-finals-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Part 8: School Finals 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The story behind this series: We’ve all had a crazy childhood dream and mine was becoming an airline pilot. Many young people who aspire a flying career are unaware of the content of flight training and the preparations which are needed. On November 23rd, 2015 I started my ATPL(A) training. Time to realize my childhood dream. I’d like to take you along on an adventure and I’ll happily answer all your questions on the way. Let’s do this!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

March 3, 2016 \u2013\u00a0On Monday morning the School Finals began: 6 exams in 3 days time. We were able to prepare rather well during our week of study and the results looked good! Yesterday studying was our main priority, but today sleeping is our new number one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our whole theoretical training is based on the EASA exams and that\u2019s something the instructors like talking about. The results of the official exams are put into our personal training records. We\u2019ll have to bring these to our interviews so it\u2019s important to study well. You can still become a pilot with a few retakes, but every airline has a different point of view and might be more strict than others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to get the best results out of our exams, we first have to pass the School Finals. Based on these results the school will give us a \u2018Go\u2019 or \u2018No go\u2019 for the official exams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like I said before, retaking an exam is not a big issue, but it\u2019s not what we strive for. Luckily the school offers a lot of help for those having trouble with one or more courses. To make sure these students can go to their retake with confidence the school organizes extra lessons with the instructor of the course you failed. It\u2019s a great opportunity to focus on the real problems you may have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The downside of these School Finals is that we\u2019re not allowed to take a look at our exams after passing them. Quite strange if you ask me, but there\u2019s nothing we can do about it. So when you fail an exam there is no way for you to see what questions you failed and what you should work on. Meeting up with an instructor without knowing this, isn\u2019t very useful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is where all our exams take place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Time management<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

If there\u2019s something I learned in the last couple of days, it\u2019s that time is critical and you have to plan well. Luckily there aren\u2019t too many things to put on your planning during the exam period: sleep, eat and study.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also during the exams, good time management is needed. Every exam has it\u2019s own time limit going from 30 minutes to 2 hours. Normally you should be able to finish your exam well within the time limit so you can still properly review it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>Off to EASA<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The EASA exams will start in the third week of March which means that we have about a week and a half to review all our books. On top of that, we make great use of AviationExam, an online database with thousands of questions for us to practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m more than certain that everyone is still as motivated as before and that we\u2019re able to go to EASA with confidence. You\u2019ll read more about the outcome of the exams very soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The story behind this series: We’ve all had a crazy childhood dream and mine was becoming an airline pilot. Many young people who aspire a flying career are unaware of the content of flight training and the preparations which are needed. On November 23rd, 2015 I started my ATPL(A) training. Time to realize my childhood dream. I’d like to take you along on an adventure and I’ll happily answer all your questions on the way. Let’s do this! March 3, 2016 \u2013\u00a0On Monday morning the School Finals began: 6 exams in 3 days time. We were able to prepare rather well during our week of study and the results looked good! Yesterday studying was our main priority, but today sleeping is our new number one. Our whole theoretical training is based on the EASA exams and that\u2019s something the instructors like talking about. The results of the official exams are put into our personal training records. We\u2019ll have to bring these to our interviews so it\u2019s important to study well. You can still become a pilot with a few retakes, but every airline has a different point of view and might be more strict than others. In order to get the best results out of our exams, we first have to pass the School Finals. Based on these results the school will give us a \u2018Go\u2019 or \u2018No go\u2019 for the official exams. Like I said before, retaking an exam is not a big issue, but it\u2019s not what we strive for. Luckily the school offers a lot of help for those having trouble with one or more courses. To make sure these students can go to their retake with confidence the school organizes extra lessons with the instructor of the course you failed. It\u2019s a great opportunity to focus on the real problems you may have. The downside of these School Finals is that we\u2019re not allowed to take a look at our exams after passing them. Quite strange if you ask me, but there\u2019s nothing we can do about it. So when you fail an exam there is no way for you to see what questions you failed and what you should work on. Meeting up with an instructor without knowing this, isn\u2019t very useful. This is where all our exams take place. Time management If there\u2019s something I learned in the last couple of days, it\u2019s that time is critical and you have to plan well. Luckily there aren\u2019t too many things to put on your planning during the exam period: sleep, eat and study. Also during the exams, good time management is needed. Every exam has it\u2019s own time limit going from 30 minutes to 2 hours. Normally you should be able to finish your exam well within the time limit so you can still properly review it. Off to EASA The EASA exams will start in the third week of March which means that we have about a week and a half to review all our books. On top of that, we make great use of AviationExam, an online database with thousands of questions for us to practice. I\u2019m more than certain that everyone is still as motivated as before and that we\u2019re able to go to EASA with confidence. You\u2019ll read more about the outcome of the exams very soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[176],"class_list":["post-17631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flight-training","tag-road-to-the-right-seat"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/v1-training.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/v1-training.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/v1-training.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v1-training.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v1-training.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/v1-training.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17634,"href":"https:\/\/v1-training.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17631\/revisions\/17634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v1-training.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/v1-training.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v1-training.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v1-training.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}