Hello! I am looking for tips on studying for the PAR written test. My goal would be to get it done before starting my ATP course next month or within a week of starting, I know that Brady posted an amazing guide on how to do so, however, I wanted to hear from some of you guys on how you went about this process. I understand that Sportys Study buddy is a good method for rouge memorization, but I feel that when it comes to the charting questions I am lacking the experience to truly grasp the questions and therefore not able to truly answer them. I understand that the written test questions will be very similar to those of the questions that appear in the Study Buddy app however slight differences in facts and figures will be presented in the actual written test, how what would you suggest for studying for this test so that the highest possible grade can be achieved?
I look forward to hearing some of your stories and experiences on how your journey in studying for the PAR written test was!
You’re 100% correct and until you actually start your training virtually everything will be out of context. Rote works best. The time to learn and understand will come later.
When you say Rote, do you mean just memorizing the questions and answers from the Study Buddy app is the best way of achieving the highest score possible on the exam?
So do you suggest going through learning mode and trying to answer all the questions or just guessing at them and reading the correct answers and trying to memorize them? Is there a tactic for Rote?
Very true, in your opinion what are some useful Rote tactics? As of now what I have been doing is just studying the questions in the Learning mode and trying to memorize the answers that I don’t know.
That’s what worked for me. LOTS of repetition. First just the questions with the correct answers, to the point where I felt like I knew them. Then moved on to the multiple choice.
Oh alright. I think that’s what I’ve been doing. I’ll see if the Study Buddy has an option where you can see all the questions and their answers right by each other.
What I did was just to keep taking the practice exams over and over and over until I could finish them in about 10-15 minutes with over 90% correct, all just by recognizing the questions and their respective answers on sight and not even needing to think about them. The actual exam took me about 30 minutes because I read each question 3 or 4 times just to be sure I wasn’t getting a tricky one, since sometimes they are slightly different grammatically, even if they are literally the same question in terms of content.
That is what I am doing and it seems to be working but it’s coming along slowly. I wish 5e sporty study buddy had an options where I could look at the questions and the answers to those questions in a lot without having to go through the practice exams. Because I’m going through like 1000+ questions at a time and it is very draining
The app lets you choose the category you want to study, so you don’t need to do the entire bank at once. You don’t have to do test mode. I think it’s called learning mode?
Yeah is learning mode you can do that. From your experience would you say that there were a lot of Charts/Sectional Chart and W&B questions when you took the PAR?
I’m assuming its going to be majority of the common sense/logical, weather theory, winds, etc… on the exam.
So I start next month and my plan is to come in with the 3 practice exams done so that I can get the endorsement from ATP and take the PAR that first week of my program. And then start on the IRA and so on…
Yes, I had quite a few questions using sectionals asking to identify type of airspace, height of the airspace, finding radio frequencies for tower/CTAF/ATIS, and one or two about MOAs, Restricted, and Warning zones. Several of the questions used the sectional for KDFW, so make sure to read carefully because it is a very crowded map.
As for the endorsement, you can actually just send a screenshot of your 3 90% practice tests to training support and they’ll email you an endorsement you can print out and take to the testing center with you. No need to wait that long if you don’t want to.
Ah right yeah I assumed do you believe there will be those radial questions that require a plotter. The other things you had mentioned are pretty easy to get as it’s just reading information on the chart. Yeah that’s true but I think I’ll need the entire month to fully repair and try to remember the entire questions bank
I didn’t get any of the plotter questions, but you should prepare for them. Those are among the ones I simply memorized the answers to. There aren’t actually that many “numbers” questions on the PAR, so memorizing all of them wasn’t difficult. I spent the last 2-3 days of my studying memorizing those after I’d learned all the rest of the stuff. Everyone’s different study-wise; personally I just wanted to get it over with as quick as possible to get ahead on the next one. All in all it took me about 2 weeks start to finish. I feel like the IRA might take longer than that, but we’ll see. The questions seem much more complicated.
