Part-66 essay questions: practise the written papers and get them marked

All of them. Under EASA the essays have been in Module 7 alone since 12 June 2024, when Regulation (EU) 2023/989 took them out of Modules 9 and 10, and under the UK CAA they are still set in Module 7A, Module 9A and Module 10.

Prep66 has essay practice on all three modules. On Module 7 you say at the start of every sitting whether you are sitting the EASA paper or the UK CAA paper, because the two syllabuses differ in places and each paper has questions of its own where they do, while the Module 9A and Module 10 essays are the UK CAA’s alone, labelled as such and shown to every reader.

The rules every essay is sat under, the 20 minutes, the 75% of key points and the two parts of a paper passed separately, are set out in full on the exam format page, and each essay module has a page of its own on what its questions ask.

You start a sitting on the module you are revising, and the question is dealt to you at random from the ones you have not yet written, then revealed as its 20-minute clock starts, as it is on the paper. You never choose it and you never see it beforehand, so every essay is a cold read of a question you have to answer there and then.

You write in the browser, with a word count beside your answer and the draft saving as you go. The clock does not stop for anything and submitting is final, so you practise finishing inside the time as well as knowing the answer. The questions, the marking sheets and the marks are all in English.

On Module 7 a sitting is two essays, the shape of the paper: the first on its own clock, a short rest, then the second on a clock of its own, with only one essay on the screen at a time. Each is marked on its own with its own pass, and both marks arrive after the second essay, so you write the second without knowing how the first went. On Modules 9 and 10, the UK CAA papers, a sitting is one essay.

Then the result: a score out of 100, PASS or BELOW PASS at 75, and the marking sheet point by point, every key point earned or not earned with the words you wrote for it quoted beside it and a line on why any point was not earned. After the sheet come the four presentation marks, with a note on each and a sentence or two on what to do better, and then the model answer, with your own essay after it to read against.

The way EASA’s guidance tells an examiner to build the real one. The rule itself is in Appendix II, the same under EASA and the UK CAA: every essay question has a model answer broken into key points, and a pass needs 75% of the required key points and no significant error on any of them. EASA’s guidance to examiners (GM 66.B.200, point 6) says how the mark itself is built: 100 in all, 60 of it for the key points, each weighted by its importance, and 40 for “the clarity and manner in which the essay report is presented”, the two added together.

Prep66 builds every practice mark the same way. The 60 is shared across the sheet’s key points by weight, and a point is earned when your essay makes it. The 40 is four criteria from EASA’s list: a logical order, with a beginning, a middle and an end; a report, not a list; the right technical terms; and writing that reads clearly, with grammar counted only as far as it gets in the way. Both parts are earned from zero, nothing is ever deducted, and spelling is never counted.

Every question has a fixed marking sheet, written with the question and never made up at marking time: the model answer broken into key points, each carrying the wordings, trade names and unit conversions that make the same point. So the meaning earns the mark, and the wording does not. “Hydraulic fluid in the system is pressurised to 3000 psi” and “Skydrol in the hydraulic system is usually at 3000 psi” make the same point, and both earn it.

A key point stated wrongly, with the wrong figure, the wrong name or an unsafe step, is a point not earned, and that is all it costs: nothing more is taken off and nothing fails an essay on its own. The marking is done by an AI model that reads your essay against the sheet, giving one verdict for each key point and each criterion, and the score is added up from those verdicts in code, so the arithmetic is the same for every essay. Prep66 is not an examiner, and every result says plainly that its mark is a practice one.

The multiple choice part and the essay part of a paper are passed separately, and a part that fails is retaken on its own (Appendix II, point 1.9), so Prep66 practises them separately too. The question bank, Fill-in-the-Gaps, the mock exams, the study books and revision guides, Blurting and the games prepare the multiple choice part of every module, and essay practice prepares the written part of the three modules that have one.

The two halves feed each other. The study book and the revision guide hold the knowledge an essay is built from, the questions test whether you have it, and the essay is where you set it down in order, as a report, against the clock. The result links to the revision guide on the question’s topic, so a point you missed goes straight back into the reading, and your essays keep a history of their own on the Essays board, apart from the readiness score, which measures the multiple choice part.

One Module on an essay module opens that module’s essay practice, and All Modules opens all three. You can create an account without a card and look round the Essays board before you choose a plan.