Ground school Journey

The steepest climb of my training so far. This is the honest breakdown of the subjects, the workload and the mindset shifts it took to get through it – plus strategies that actually helped me pass

I have broken down each subject into a clickable card so you can learn how I found each subject and my opinion of them based on a 5 star review, with 5 being the hardest. Something I found hard to remember but a crucial thing to understand is everyone's journey through ground school will be different. I'm still trying to understand this now but just bare this in mind when reading my reviews 🙂

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Ground school subjects and My Ratings

Ground school is split into 13 different subjects, each comes with there own challenges. In this series, i will break down each subject and share how I personally rated it based on difficulty, enjoyment, real-world usefulness and exam stress.

*From a girly who has a very average academic level and definitely struggled with Maths GCSE at school*

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Groundschool

This is where I take you back to the early days – when I first opened the exam syllabus, trying to juggle life, study and tuition time. If you are wondering what goes into ground school, or you are already in the thick of it, this is an honest real life take on what it was really like and why it is absolutely worth pushing through