Part-66 Module 7 essay questions: Maintenance Practices, EASA and UK CAA

The essays are the second part of the Module 7 paper, marked against key points and passed apart from the multiple choice part, so a candidate who passes the multiple choice and fails the essays retakes only the essays (Appendix II, point 1.9). That holds under EASA and under the UK CAA alike, where the paper is Module 7A.

Each essay has 20 minutes, the time Appendix II allows every essay question, and the pair is set as one paper. Sit them with the CAA and the two essays are a session of their own, written on the CAA’s essay answer paper with your own pen.

Essay questions are drafted from the knowledge syllabus of the module, so any part of Module 7 can carry one, and nearly every row of it is about the work itself: safety precautions in the hangar and the workshop, tools, fits and clearances, riveting, pipes and hoses, springs, bearings and transmissions, control cables, sheet metal and composite repair, weighing an aircraft, handling and storing one, inspecting after a heavy landing or a lightning strike, and the maintenance procedures and paperwork around all of it.

Under EASA the syllabus has carried a new row since 13 February 2026, when Regulation (EU) 2025/111 filled 7.4 with “Potential safety hazards when working with electrical systems and protective equipment” at level 3, and an essay can be set on it like any other row. Under the UK CAA, 7.4 is still avionic general test equipment, so where the two syllabuses differ, Prep66 writes separate questions for each paper and never one question that tries to serve both.

Expect a procedure. A Module 7 question tends to ask you to describe a job in the order it is done, with the precautions before, during and after it, or an inspection in sequence, such as weighing an aircraft or the checks after a heavy landing. Every question here is Prep66’s own, written from the Module 7 study book to the pattern of a technical report, and not one is taken from a live paper.

You open a Module 7 sitting by picking the paper you are sitting, EASA or UK CAA, with neither chosen for you, and from there it runs like the real thing: two questions, each unseen until its 20-minute clock starts, a short rest between them, and never more than one essay in front of you. Each essay gets its own sheet and its own PASS or BELOW PASS, and you read both results together once the second is in, which keeps the second essay as cold as the first.

Module 7 is the only essay paper EASA still sets. Under the UK CAA there are two more, in Module 9A and Module 10, practised and marked the same way.