Practice questions for the EASA ATPL, CPL and IR theory exams — every one written from a published EASA Learning Objective, anchored to a public regulation you can look up, and put through four independent checks before an instructor signs it off.
Ten questions, twenty seconds each, same questions for both of you. The clock does not wait: miss it and it moves on. Your rating moves with the result.
See how it worksNo timer. Every answer explained, the reasoning error named, and the regulation it rests on printed underneath. This is where the exam is actually passed.
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Every question starts from a Learning Objective in EASA's published syllabus (AMC1 FCL.310, ED Decision 2020/018/R) and carries its code. Open any question and you can see which objective it tests.
The answer rests on a source you can check yourself — an ICAO Annex, a Chicago Convention article, an EU Regulation, a Certification Specification. It is printed with the question.
The three wrong answers each have a job: one obviously wrong, one built on the classic misconception, one plausible but failing on a detail. Which one you pick tells us what to fix.
Knowing a definition is not the same as applying it under pressure. Each Learning Objective is attacked through up to eight archetypes across three difficulty levels — so the app can tell you not just which subject you are weak at, but what kind of thinking.
| Level | Archetype | What it tests |
|---|---|---|
| Easy | conceptual | The fundamental relationship |
| Easy | terminology | The exact meaning of a technical term |
| Medium | scenario | A concrete operational situation, real numbers |
| Medium | calculation | One computational step |
| Medium | misconception | Built around the mistake students actually make |
| Hard | multi_step | Two or more chained steps |
| Hard | edge_case | A limit, an exception, a non-standard condition |
| Hard | reverse | Given the outcome, work back to the cause |
Writing a question is the easy part. A question that fails any of these steps goes back and does not ship. On the first batches through the chain, 29% of drafts were sent back — that is the point of the system, not an embarrassment.
The professional theory exams are sat in English in all 30 EASA member states (France alone also offers French), and ICAO English Level 4 is mandatory for the licence anyway. Translating the questions would train you in the wrong vocabulary. Where a rule genuinely differs between states — and that is almost only in Air Law and Operational Procedures — the question says so explicitly instead of pretending the answer is universal.
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26 sample questions, two from each of the 13 subjects, with the full explanation and the regulatory source attached to every one.
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