Important Examination Information
When attending your examinations, you must adhere to all Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) policies in addition to any specific policy of host organisations or venue. Please ensure that you pay close attention to the required and permitted items for your examination as stated on your confirmation.
All candidates are required to arrive at least 30 minutes before their scheduled examination.
Candidates must provide their own writing equipment - clear plastic pen (Bic Biro type) and eraser tipped pencil.
Please make sure you review the current policies of different Approved Examination Venues (Bristol Ground School, Skyborne Gloucester, CATS Luton, L3 Harris Crawley, Ayrshire College, Rosyth Business Centre – Pathway Pilot Training, Leading Edge Aviation Oxford) and adhere to their risk assessments before attending exams at their premises.
At venues where lockers are available, please follow the invigilators instructions on accessing them. We recommend only bringing essential and permitted items into the building. Where possible, coats, bags, study notes, electronic devices, and so on, should be left in your car.
Once you enter the exam room, you are under examination conditions.
Candidate Examination Guidance
- Exam schedule for professional pilot exams at the CAA
- Professional and Private e-Services Terms and conditions (CAP1903F)
- Information for taking e-exams (pdf)
- Notice to candidates (pdf) flight crew licensing exams
- Conduct poster at examination venues (pdf)
- Information about technical review requests
e-Exam Platform Guidance
There is a guidance for using the quadrant exams platform video available.
If you have any queries relating to examinations, please contact the team at FCL-EExams@caa.co.uk.
Supplied, approved and prohibited Items
There are rules about what you can take into an exam.
You will be supplied with the following items:
• Rough working paper
• Workbooks
Depending on the specific exam you are taking, you may be allowed to bring the following approved items:
- Clear plastic ruler
- Approved calculators (the approved models are: Casio FX 82/83/85/300 series; Sharp EL-W531/531 series; Citizen SR-260 series; Texas Instruments TI-30X/XB/XS)
- Approved flight computers – CRP-1; CRP-5/CR-3/CR-6; ARC-2; E6B:
- Jeppesen General Student Pilot Route Manual (GSPRM)
- Protractor / plotter
- Compass and dividers (without case)
- Fine tip marker
- One clear plastic pen (Bic biro or similar)
- One eraser tipped pencil and pencil sharpener
You cannot bring the following prohibited items into the exam:
- A pencil case
- Any electronic devices including mobile phones
- Watches
- Recording or communication equipment/devices
- Any written notes, including but not limited to, notes in your GSPRM or on your person
Examination results
Examination results are released once all exams at a particular venue have concluded.
For example, if exams are delivered Monday to Friday, the results will be released on the following Monday. If exams are delivered Monday to Wednesday, the results will be released on the Thursday.
Technical Review Request
Candidates and Approved Training Organisations (ATOs) may raise concerns or challenge the accuracy and effectiveness of an examination question or supporting materials. The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) thoroughly reviews all such instances via the following two protocols and results may be amended where genuine issues are identified.
Examination performance management programme
To maintain the integrity and effectiveness of the examination content.
This includes:
- Routine review of all presented questions
- Statistical analysis
- Trend monitoring of question results
- A review of all candidate comments
Candidates are able to make comments during an examination.
Entering a comment during the examination does not constitute a Full Review but every comment is reviewed by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA).
Full review
A candidate can request a full review which is a comprehensive investigation into the accuracy and integrity of examination content and materials delivered to the candidate during a specific test.
- The full review must be formally instructed by the candidate by clicking on the ‘Request Review’ button on their results portal page.
- It must be requested within 14 calendar days of the examination in question.
The full examination review fee (£160) should be paid by the candidate at the time of request, which is fully refundable if an error is found and the candidate marks are adjusted accordingly.
The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) endeavours to complete this service within 10 workings days of receipt of the request. A message notification, explaining the findings and closing actions will be added to the 'User Messages' area in the candidate e-Exam portal.