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Some exams publish every question in advance. Those are the ones we drill.

Free practice exams built from the published question pools. A question pool is the complete, public list an examining body draws from — the FCC amateur pools, the USCIS civics list, the state driver manuals. When the pool is public, there is no reason to guess what is on the test. Work the pool until it is boring, and you pass.

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Each one opens a study centre: a plain-English reference guide, then timed practice sets with a weak-area breakdown at the end.

409 questions
FCC Element 2

Ham Radio Technician

The entry-level amateur radio licence. Rules, operating practice, electrical principles, safety and a handful of schematic figures.

2026–2030 pool, revised 19 February 2026 · valid through 30 June 2030
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Full pool
FCC Element 3

Ham Radio General

HF privileges, propagation, antennas and the rules that come with talking to the rest of the world.

Pool valid through 30 June 2027
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Full pool
FCC Element 4

Ham Radio Extra

The top licence class. Circuit analysis, digital modes, radio mathematics and the rest of the spectrum.

Pool valid through 30 June 2028
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Two question sets
Aeronautical knowledge

FAA Airman Knowledge

Airspace, weather, charts, performance and regulations — the ground-school material behind the knowledge test.

The FAA does not publish a current question bank; these are written from the published knowledge-test standards and handbooks
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400 questions · 8 sets
Part 107 background

Drone Technology

How multirotors actually fly, what the flight computer is doing, battery limits, navigation, risk and counter-drone.

Technology and airmanship, not a transcription of the FAA test
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120 questions · 3 sets
USCIS civics test

U.S. Citizenship Civics

The naturalisation civics test. USCIS publishes the questions and the accepted answers in full, so these are the official questions rather than questions written about them.

Two civics tests are live at once — your N-400 filing date decides which one you take. Built from the 2025 pool; the 8 questions whose answers change are excluded on purpose
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140 questions · 3 sets
AAMVA CDL manual

CDL General Knowledge

The one test every CDL applicant takes. The licence and the law, stopping distance and space management, inspection and cargo securement, from 49 CFR and the CDL manual.

General Knowledge only — Air Brakes and Combination Vehicles are separate tests. Two versions of the CDL manual are in use and states may offer either
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140 questions · 3 sets
Published exam outline

Real Estate Tests

The national salesperson exam. Property and title, contracts and agency, fair housing, value and appraisal, financing and the math — weighted to the eight content areas in the same proportions the real exam uses.

National portion only. Your state portion is scored separately and covers your own licence law and commission rules
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The FCC amateur pools are replaced on a four-year cycle, and studying the wrong edition is the single most common way people waste a month. Tell us which exam you are working on and you will get one email when that pool is replaced, one when the new sets are online, and nothing else.

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Why these questions are harder than they look

Most free practice tests can be beaten without knowing the subject. Ours are built to close the loopholes.

The longest answer is not the right one

On a four-option question the correct answer should be the longest about a quarter of the time. On many practice banks it is more than half, so a test-wise guesser scores well without studying. Every set here is measured and rewritten until it sits near chance.

Options shuffle every attempt

Repeat a set and the answers move. You cannot memorise “the third one” — which is exactly the habit that fails people on exam day, when the order is different again.

You are told what you do not know

The score screen breaks your result down by subelement, lists the questions you missed with the reasoning, and points you back at the reference guide section that covers them.

Checked against the source

Where the examining body publishes a pool, the wording is taken from it, errata included, and the edition and expiry date are printed on the page so you know what you are studying.

Fast to drill

Arrow keys move between questions, number keys pick an answer, and a navigator grid shows at a glance what is still unanswered. Fifty questions in ten minutes once you know the material.

One file, no account

Each quiz is a single page. Nothing to install, nothing to sign up for, and no score kept on a server. Save the page and it still works on a laptop with no signal.

After you pass

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FIRST RADIO

What to buy with a new Technician licence

A handheld, a better antenna than the one in the box, and a programming cable. Written up here with the reasons, not just a list.

Guide in progress
FIRST DRONE

Choosing an aircraft you can actually fly commercially

Remote ID, weight classes and what the certificate does and does not let you do with each one.

Guide in progress
EXAM DAY

What to bring to a VE session

Identification, the fee, a calculator that is allowed, and the paperwork people forget.

Guide in progress
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