Once you have selected a test in the test selections screen, you are taken to this, the Study Areas screen.

Here, the primary activity is selecting what topics you want to test / practice / learn on. This is done by selecting one or more checkboxes from the box at upper left.

Additionally, from this screen you can launch our question lookup tool. When you click on the binoculars at lower left, you get taken to a screen where you can look up one or more questions by a number of criteria, including Keyword, FAA Subject Code, FAATest.com Subject Area, whether you have explicitly marked this question to be difficult for you, and more.

All of our software features our reduced and super-reduced question pool functionality. It is best to read the in-program documentation (the help button) for a complete understanding of what that is and what its strengths and weaknesses are. However, in brief, what the reduced and super-reduced question sets are are the complete question bank pared down into what our editors believe to be the most representative, most often seen, and most difficult questions (the "super reduced" pares down even more than the "reduced.") Obviously, studying and learning the complete bank is best. But when you are pressed for time, studying a reduced set can be a big help.

Please note: you may hear something from others who claim that they have access to the "current FAA question set" and that they have pared down their preparation material according to some "inside knowledge" or somesuch. It is our belief that this is complete nonsense. We've been dealing with these tests for a long time and have concluded that what such places offer you is essentially the same as what our editors do--their best guess. We urge you to discount any claims that somebody has an "official" or "current" FAA "active" questions list or somesuch. It just isn't so. For what it's worth, people who study our reduced or super-reduced sets only tend to do quite well indeed if they really learn those banks. Again, it's not as good as learning from the complete pool, but if your goal is to pass quickly, this may be just the functionality that you need.