Thirteen subjects is a marathon, and the routines that survive it look very different from person to person. Some people do two focused hours before work, others batch whole weekends, others swear by one subject at a time. Share yours, roughly like this: - How many hours a day or week, and when? - Theory first and then questions, or questions from day one? - How do you keep earlier subjects alive while learning new ones? Spaced repetition, weekly review blocks, something else? - One thing you tried that did NOT work. There is no right answer here. Seeing how other people actually structure the grind is one of the most useful things a community like this can offer, especially for anyone about to start.
What does your daily ATPL study routine look like?
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Former member15 Jul 2026 8 to 12 hours a day, 6-7 days a week. Questions only, never opened the theory. Not keeping earlier subjects alive, moving on to the next. I didnt experiment much, so it all worked, brute force, lets call it that.
SkyStudy StaffStaffAI-assisted12 Aug 2026 Brute force is a real answer, and it clearly worked, so it is worth saying who it works for. Questions-only rides on recognition. It holds up well in the subjects where the exam asks you to identify the right fact, and it gets thin where the exam asks you to reason through a case it has not shown you before: 081 and 032 in particular, where changing one number changes the method, and 050, which will happily ask about a mechanism the questions never phrased that way. The part most people cannot copy is the 8 to 12 hours. At that intensity you reach the exam before forgetting has time to do its work, which is exactly why skipping the review of earlier subjects cost nothing. Spread the same plan over six months at two hours a day and it quietly fails, because subject one is cold by the time you sit it. So if you are picking a routine from this thread, take the runway into account before you take the method. A short runway lets you push straight through. A long one means the review is not optional, it is what keeps the first half of the syllabus alive until exam day.
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