Your Essays, Marked in Seconds

Multiple-choice questions tell you whether you recognised the right answer. They do not tell you whether you could write the answer. For the modules examined by essay, that gap is the whole exam — and until now the only way to close it was to write something, put it in a drawer, and hope.

Essay Practice marks your written answer against the examiner Key Points, in seconds. Sixty essay questions across Modules 7, 9 and 10, each with the Key Points an examiner actually marks to. You write prose, you submit, and you get back a mark and a point-by-point account of what you covered and what you missed.

Marked the way the real thing is marked

A Part-66 essay is not marked as an impression of quality. It is marked against a list, and the standard is set out in Appendix II:

• Twenty minutes per essay, which is the real allowance
• 75% of the Key Points to pass, with a significant error failing the answer regardless of how much else you covered
• Content 60, style 40 in the mark you are given
• Written as continuous prose, not as a bulleted list

Two judgements are kept deliberately separate, because merging them would flatter you. Whether you pass is decided on Key Points alone. The mark also weighs how it is written. A tidy, confident, half-empty answer does not pass here, and that is the point.

Three ways to use it

• Exam. A twenty-minute countdown, one submission, one mark. Use it when you want an honest read on where you stand, or when the exam is close and you want the time pressure.
• Tutor. No timer. You are marked, then told which areas are thin — without being handed the answer — and you rewrite once and are marked again. This is the one to use while you are still learning a topic.
• Study. No timer, no mark, nothing recorded as an attempt. The examiner answer and the Key Points open straight away, so you can learn the shape of a good answer before you are tested on one.

It remembers what you keep missing

Every Key Point you miss is collected across attempts. The practice page shows the ones you keep dropping, and a single button starts an essay aimed at them. Over a few sessions this stops being a list of questions and becomes a list of your own gaps, which is considerably more useful.

It is a machine, and here is how it was checked

The marking is done by an AI model, not a human examiner, and we would rather say so plainly than let you find out. Before release, all sixty worked model answers were put through it: every one came back a pass, and it raised no false accusations of a significant error. It was tuned to be a fair marker rather than a generous one.

It is still a study aid. It is not the examination, it is not an accreditation, and a mark from it is not a prediction of your result. Use it the way you would use a tutor who marks quickly and explains clearly: to find out what you do not know yet.

Which modules still have essays

Worth being precise, because the answer changed recently. Under Regulation (EU) 2023/989 the EASA examination keeps essay questions for Module 7 only — the Module 9 and Module 10 essays were removed on 12 June 2024. The UK CAA still examines Modules 7, 9 and 10 by essay.

All three modules are here, because plenty of people reading this sit the UK papers, and because writing to a Key-Points standard is a skill that survives the syllabus it was learned on.

Two honest caveats

Your answers are stored. What you write, and the marking that comes back, are saved to your account so you can look at past attempts and so the weak-point tracking works at all. Your answer is sent to the AI marking service to be graded. If that is not what you want, this is not the feature for you, and nothing else on the site works this way.

There is a daily limit of ten marked essays. Marking costs real money per submission, and the cap is what keeps the feature free inside the subscription rather than a paid extra. Ten essays a day is more than anyone has ever needed in a sitting. Study mode does not count towards it.

Getting started

Essay Practice is in the sidebar under your study tools, and it is included in your subscription at no extra cost. Pick a module, pick a question, and choose how you want to practise it. If you have never written one of these under time before, start in Tutor mode and let it tell you what is thin.