The only document I used was vfrg, it is super helpful and as Matt says repeatedly, you absolutely must know how to find almost anything in the VFRG super fast.

Expect about 5 questions you have to type numbers for instead of multiple choice.

Know your loading and performance charts and be able to do your nav calculations.

The rest you can get from the VFRG if you know it inside out and back to front.

Hey Matthew,

Firstly – Your site rocks… the price + the benefits are outstanding- well done 🙂

Tips for new players…
1. Study sux – we all know that. Know your subject, identify your weaknesses and learn the background of those weak points in whatever form you can. I found that some topics were easier to learn by using google to get plain English explanations. Text books are great to read from cover to cover, but lets face it – we won’t absorb everything. Read the text book, do some practice exams (haha using pilot practice exams) and then figure out the bits that you have no idea about… study that!
2. Focus on the stuff that is totally foreign to you, forget the rest until you know the stuff you have no idea about. I found I would do that, then come back to the stuff i thought I knew and still had some work to do on that stuff too..
3. Talk to people, don’t try to work it out yourself every time- there are so many people out there who have done these exams, and they had their own little tricks to learn/remember stuff (don’t reinvent the wheel)
4. Set a date for when you want to have your exam done – an open ended timeline will create laziness. Book your exam in advance so you are disciplined to do it.

I have completed: BAK , All exams for RPL, RA AUS Nav, PPL

PPL was a stupid exam. I knew it would be, but it was worse than i thought. The questions try to throw you, they are set for failure not success. If you don’t know your topics you will fail. You can’t rely on just having done practice exams, so use the practice to identify weaknesses only (I know you tell people that already)…

Study every day – even if it is 15 minutes on the practice exam site – this is so valuable to getting your head into an aviation space and even if you are on struggle street, you will absorb a little bit of info every day..

All exams up until PPL are really common sense and not too tricky – if you have studied that is! PPL is the one that you need to know how to find the answer, not just know the answer.
I spent 1.5 hours of my time just checking my answers. I changed at least 30%  of them once i went back and checked using the material you can take in with you. That was a good thing and clearly worked given my 95% result 🙂

• Jan 2017 There were few, if any, questions regarding general terminology. Maybe something about aircraft speeds or other aerospace subjects but not things like definition of latitude or nautical mile or UTC.
• Jan 2017 One type of questions you are missing in the meteo section and which are popular in the CASA exam (I had 4) is this. Instead of bombarding you with questions like whether there are 4 or 6 figures in the time stamps, what is BKN, etc, they dump a screenfull of ARFOR and then ask what the weather will be in a certain location (or during the flight from that to that) at a certain time. There are quite a few challenges apart from just deciphering the
  report. There are usually many layers of clouds, and most are localised in time or space.
• Make sure you cover some TEM Threat Error Management in detail.

Bourke WAC chart – had the typical Narrabri to St George – Wee Waa ,pick best landmark which is in Final Prep Exams

Sydney WAC question was a calculation of degrees off course using 1 in 60 Rule and a diversion

Townsville WAC is generally Ingham to somewhere 90nm west, then do calculations for diversion and or fuel calculation.

He had several questions requiring typed responses, with basic one or two word answers

Had both loading charts Alpha and Chalrie from the workbook

https://www.casa.gov.au/sites/g/files/net351/f/_assets/main/lib100252/ppl-cpl-workbook.pdf

50nm out to sea requirements