{"id":8520,"date":"2026-06-30T14:06:03","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T18:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lapware.org\/site\/?p=8520"},"modified":"2026-06-30T14:06:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T18:06:04","slug":"recent-cm-exam-feedback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lapware.org\/site\/recent-cm-exam-feedback\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent CM Exam feedback"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Everyone asks me for the latest information when they start LAPWARE, which is why I regularly ask for feedback from test takers after their exams.  This has to be one of the most comprehensive reports I&#8217;ve ever received and it is greatly appreciated.  He was taking the CM\/MA AGT Oceans series of exams&#8211;posted without changing content&#8211;just adjusted to protect the mariner&#8217;s privacy:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Rules of the Road (Q100):  The bank appears mostly new at the rec.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t believe that just going through the bank is enough anymore .\u00a0 They&#8217;re asking some very niche questions which border on theory and it&#8217;s imperative to go through each rule individually and understand the ins and outs, whereas when I took my third mate, it was enough to go through the bank and you could pass. I failed my first attempt with an 84 and needed to do a retake not that it&#8217;s a LAPWARE issue per se but I think it needs to be noted that a student needs to read through the book and use LAPWARE as a supplement to see some problems.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Deck General 1&amp;2 (Q101 &amp; Q102):   Part 1 it has a mixture of deck gen 1\/2 questions in there, and it is not limited to just the 500 question deck gen part one bank. I also got an 80 on this.  Part 2 a decent amount of CFR questions pretty similar to the NMC sample test.   An acronym that I use to know where to look in the cfrs is as follows\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>TCDPULP<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DINOCET<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That translates to tanker in D, cargo in I , certain dangerous in N , pollution in O , uninspected in C, \u00a0loadline in E , Passenger in T .\u00a0 It doesn&#8217;t cover everything but the bulk will be in there and I think if you include that people will have an easier time knowing where to look (general idea). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Deck Safety (Q103): pretty similar to the deck safety nmc w a few cfr questions but all in all pretty straight forward.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Stability (Q104) was a carbon copy of the 2024 nmc sample .\u00a0 I don&#8217;t think the practice tests should include a salmon page anymore .\u00a0 The test was a legit 1:1 copy with different questions.\u00a0 Skated out of there with an 80.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Nav General (Q105?) The practice tests look NOTHING like the test you will see on test day.\u00a0 They are very similar to the nmcs . My recommendation would for people to go through both sets of sample tests\u00a0 Nav Gen Oceans and Nav Gen Near Coastal which are both under student resources . \u00a0 There was probably 30-35 questions between those 4 tests that came up on my actual test.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Chart plot (Q107) Chesapeake bay, same as the LAPWARE practice one but the answers were in different locations. \u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Near Coastal<strong>\u00a0<\/strong> Nav Problems (Q108)\n<ul>\n<li>Speed of advance\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Long distance eta\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mercator<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Amplitude (visible horizon moon (extremely gay))<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fuel conservation\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Time tick\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tide ( new with diagram )<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Current (new with diagram )\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Course correction (course made good)\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Azimuth by Polaris\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Oceans \u00a0Nav Problems  (Q109)\n<ul>\n<li>High altitude sailing\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Azimuth of Venus\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Course correction (course to steer)\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Great circle initial course<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sunrise,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Great circle trivia\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Msv three body fix<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lat with HO\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2 azimuth was the \u00a0sun\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Time of lan<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Minor star<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Three body best fix\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Parallel sailing\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Azimuth angle with assumed position\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gnomatic chart question\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Latitude at LAN<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Latitude by Polaris\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"Chief-Mate-Exam\"><em>LAPWARE Comment:<\/em> <em>Hope this helps your exam preparations.  The NMC is continuing to change questions&#8211;and not involving the expected review. <\/em>   As you can see, LAPWARE accurately has the right mix of questions and will continue to work on all available information to improve the mariner&#8217;s exam preparation. Please consider sending a summary of your REC experience to Info@lapware.org and we&#8217;ll post it for the other mariners so they can prepare better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Details on Chief Mate Exam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[51],"tags":[47,49],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lapware.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8520"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lapware.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lapware.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lapware.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lapware.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8520"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lapware.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8523,"href":"https:\/\/www.lapware.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8520\/revisions\/8523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lapware.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lapware.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lapware.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}