EASA Module 3

It is a multiple-choice examination, sat either as part of an approved Part-147 course or directly with a competent authority. The number of questions, the time allowed and the pass mark are set by the examining organisation rather than fixed here, so confirm them with your school or authority before you book.

We cannot state a reliable figure: the official EASA source page consulted for this profile returned an error and contained no examination parameters. Question counts and durations vary between competent authorities and training organisations. Treat any number you see online, including on this page, as unverified until your provider confirms it in writing.

Neither the pass percentage nor the retake rules are confirmed by the source material available to us, so we do not publish figures. In practice both are set by the authority or Part-147 organisation administering the examination, and retake conditions often depend on whether you sat it as a course examination or as a direct authority examination.

Most candidates find the early DC material straightforward and the later AC material demanding, especially phase relationships, reactance and transformer behaviour. The difficulty is not usually conceptual depth but breadth: many small topics, each capable of producing a calculation. Expect to do numerical practice, not just reading, if you want a comfortable margin.

Follow the physics, not the syllabus numbering. Nail electron theory, conduction, electrical terminology, resistance and DC circuits first, because everything else is built on Ohm's law and power. Then take magnetism and inductance together, capacitance separately, and only afterwards combine them in AC theory, transformers, filters, generators and motors.

Three recurring causes: mixing units or dropping prefixes during calculations, confusing reactance with resistance when computing impedance, and memorising definitions without being able to apply them. A fourth is careless reading - questions that ask for total resistance in a parallel network where the answer looks counter-intuitive. Show your working, keep units attached, and sanity-check every number.

Yes, but memorise them with their units and their limits. Know Ohm's law and power relationships cold, the series and parallel rules for resistance and capacitance, the reactance formulas and the impedance triangle. Understanding why a capacitor blocks DC and passes AC is more durable than a mnemonic, and it answers unfamiliar wording in the exam.

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Stop reading new material. Work through calculation-heavy topics against the clock, redraw phasor diagrams from memory, and list the topics you keep getting wrong. Revisit only those. Confirm your examination logistics - venue, identification, permitted materials and calculator rules - with the organisation running the examination, as these vary and are not published here.