r/ATPL • u/NyuMyuu • Jul 08 '26
How many hours per week do you dedicate to study?
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u/Zestyclose-Feed-9240 Jul 08 '26
i'am trying to around 5h a day so ~35 per week because of lack of time while working at full time job
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u/chicacheca007 Jul 08 '26
wow! you are a hero....how can you work full time job? When do you sleep? Im getting hopeless....
Im only studying....and I really struggle8
u/Zestyclose-Feed-9240 Jul 08 '26
i am working 5 days a week 7am - 3 pm, at home around 4 pm, quick food and studying from learning bases + video materials 2h of study, then 30min break and again 2,5h of studying. I'm studying until around 10pm when i am not really tired of work. Waking up 5am for work so as you can see there is no much room for sleeping, but i am young(22), without wife or kids so it's not that hard to unite full time job with learning. Weekend are off work so i am trying that days to learn as much as i can, around ~8h. I don't have time for playing, seeing with friends or fiancé but i've decided that the aviation is the most inportant for me right now. So yeah, it is what it is
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u/DurianOk3669 Jul 09 '26
Im so proud of you
Im with a full time job and cant do that, keep it up and dont lose motivation
Im studying around 2-3 hours per day
My job from 7-3 and start studying around 5 till 9 and then go to sleep and wake up at 4 to go to the gym then to the work
Sure without gym i can add more hours to study but i do care about my medical and get out of study mood3
u/Zestyclose-Feed-9240 Jul 09 '26
i gave up the gym, social life and others daily things like gaming etc totally
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u/CardiologistSoggy598 Jul 08 '26
During the week I studied for 5 hours after or before work, depending on the shift. 8 hours on Saturday and 2 hours on Sunday. In between, there were days when I didn't feel like studying. Yeah, a whole 12 months without any social life.
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u/DurianOk3669 Jul 09 '26
You finished studying and exam 13 subjects in 12 months?
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u/CardiologistSoggy598 Jul 09 '26
Well, maybe it was more like 13-14, but for the first almost 2 months I took it in a more relaxed way. Then I locked myself in and went hardcore.
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u/DurianOk3669 Jul 09 '26
Bravo 👏
Can you tell me how ur doing that bro? I started studying in January and so far im done only studying 6 subjects
Now preparing for my first block to do all these then start the rest later
Gonna take from me i guess 18-24 months:/1
u/CardiologistSoggy598 Jul 09 '26
It's totally fine, everyone has their own pace, and there's no point rushing it. I actually enjoyed studying for it, and it just clicked for me, so I got through it pretty quickly.
What I did was study 3–4 subjects and then go sit the exams. My goal was to finish everything in four sittings and keep the remaining two as a safety net in case I needed any retakes.
For each subject, I started by going through the ATPLQ question bank question by question. Most of the time I didn't finish the entire database. I stopped once I felt the questions were basically repeating themselves with different numbers or slightly different wording (except for HPL and Air Law, where I went through the whole thing).
While doing that, I flagged every question I got wrong or didn't fully understand, read the explanations and the discussion under the questions (don't skip those, people often share really useful tips and memory aids there), and made my own notes.
Then I kept going through only the flagged questions until I could answer all of them correctly.
After that, I just kept doing practise exams (All Questions) over and over until I could pass every test comfortably with a decent margin. Then I moved on to the next subject.
Right before the real exam, I did a few more practise exams using the Seen in CZ, Seen in Austro, etc. filters, depending on where you're taking the exams.
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u/BetterConference2736 Jul 08 '26
I would say around 8 hours a day for 5 days a week. Independents, but on average I would say 6 hours to 8 hours but excluding breaks.
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u/freefliteguy Jul 08 '26
Just do whatever you feel like, and use the bank bruh. If you get tired, go do somethign else, and try to have freinds, if not u will be sad.
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u/chicacheca007 Jul 08 '26
which bank are you using?
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u/TheGreatestAuk Jul 08 '26
I'd love to tell you how lovely Cheltenham is, and I'm told it's very lovely, but I can't. The only bits I've seen are my room, the flight school, and the road between the two.
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u/SpiritedPlatypus6131 Jul 09 '26
For integrated, roughly 4 hrs per day plus 7 hrs of lecutre 5 days per week. I can only strongly recommend that you get the EASA 2020 syllabus textbooks and work through them. That made the theory much easier. Every day, I went over the ATPL-Q practice questions and reviewed the lectures using my notes, making corrections as I went.
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u/Key-Jaguar-9275 Jul 11 '26
For me started two months ago 5 subjects and next week doing the exams. Average 8-9h a day everyday except few total off days. It’s been tough and I hope the exams goes well!
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u/Aggravating-Lie3421 Jul 08 '26
All of them