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Which FAA Tests Can I study For? How Many questions are there?
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| Our GroundSchool series of FAA knowledge test preps are divided into individual app titles. Each app title includes a number of related, individual tests. For example, our GroundSchool FAA Private Pilot test apps contain study material for the Private Pilot Airplane, Private Pilot Helicopter, Private Pilot Glider, and other tests. Some questions in a given title are common to most or all of the tests in that title while some are unique to specific tests. When you start any of our titles, you are given the option to select exactly which test you want to study and then you are presented with only those questions which our editors have deemed correspond to that test - nothing more and nothing less.
Most people only ever take one test in a given group. For example, you might take the private pilot helicopter test and never need the private pilot glider test - or vice versa. Exceptions to this include the instructor test banks where a typical candidate will take both the initial instructor test plus the fundamentals of instruction tests. It doesn't make sense for us to create an individual product for each test. Rather, we group them as we do for mutual convenience. That said, once you have one of our products, you can switch to whichever test you want within a title as often if you'd like.
Our FAA knowledge test prep apps also feature an (optional purchase) audio mode where questions and answers are read by a human narrator.The audio mode does not cover all of the questions for a given test - specifically, questions with a large calculative or visual element are not included. Additionally, the audio modes generally do not include explanations for the material and as such won't prepare you well to actually learning the material deeply so that you'll be prepared for new and variant FAA questions. With those caveats out of the way, the audio prep is an extremely effective complementary mode to help familiarize you with questions and answers which you can listen to, for example, in your car. We regularly get feedback from people who love the audio mode and tell us how much time it saved them and how much it helped them learn.
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It's in your best interest to be very skeptical of test prep products which try to lure you in with various claims of "how many questions" you need to study to pass your actual FAA tests and who claim some too-cool-for-school test-hack methods such as memorizing keywords in correct answers. The FAA is well aware of such nonsense and is taking active measures to make such educationally useless test cram strategies failing ones. Your goal is not just to pass the test, but to emerge a smart, safe, and capable pilot/mechanic/instructor. Our preps feature a realistic set of questions plus the best-in-the-business explanations and supplementary materials to really help you learn and be ready for whatever unpublished questions the FAA is increasingly including in actual tests. Additionally, Designated Pilot Examiners and Designated Mechanic Examiners are under increased emphasis to make sure that pilots actually know the knowledge material. There are no "cheat" shortcuts to learning the stuff, but our apps are designed for a smooth experience to make the legitimate learning process as fast and efficient as possible. Our results speak for themselves - year after year for decades, the overwhelming majority of our users pass with high scores and leading aviation educational institutions rely on us for test prep.
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The list below contains the number of questions per title, per test, and in the audio mode for each. These totals are regularly changing as our editors update the material.
Total Questions: 14207 (11112 in audio version) If the totals above don't match what you see in the app:
- Very important: Use the update feature from the main menu of the app to update your installed content to the latest available. Please check for updates regularly when studying. This is important!
- Make sure you have no 'filtering' conditions set. For example:
- Make sure all chapters / study areas are selected
- Make sure all 'question stacks' are selected
- Make sure you don't have any search term typed in the search box
- etc.
Our test preps can help you pass nearly every FAA knowledge test. However, we cannot help you with career/legal type questions as to "which test should I study for?"
- Speaking generally, most people start their aviation experience with the Private Pilot test for the aircraft type of their choice - for example, Private Pilot Airplane. If your goal is to be a pilot, that is usually a good place to start
and you can start studying right now, even before you've ever been to an airport or flight school if you have the motivation and vision to do so.
- If you're a Canadian Pilot seeking to transition to an FAA certificate or rating, please read the related issue below
- If you're not sure what test to take given your mix of experience and prior certificates and ratings, then your best course of action is to consult with your local instructor or, for an even better "bankable" answer, contact your local FAA FSDO. They can be reached via the phone and it is their job to give you official answers that you can trust and fall back on. This is by far the best course of action compared to asking any private entity for such advice.
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It is vitally important that as soon as you get our test prep app, the very first thing you do is to start it up and click on "check for updates" (or similar) from the main menu. This will update the learning content to the latest and greatest. It's really critical that you do this, especially for mobile app versions. Our editorial team is hard at work updating the content regularly through 2025, 2026 and beyond, so check for updates regularly as you study. |
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