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IYT Yachtmaster Coastal practice test: exam questions and theory

1000 questions in 10 topics. Each topic has an article that explains the rules the questions ask about, with drawings; the app asks the questions, explains every answer and brings your mistakes back until you get them right.

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The mock exam: 50 questions spread over every topic, 90 minutes, pass at 70 %. Size, time and pass mark are the app’s defaults, not an official rule.

Topics

  1. 1. Navigational charts & publicationsA chart is a survey, a date and a set of conventions. · 8 min read · 100 questions
  2. 2. Dead reckoning, estimated position & course to steerBetween fixes, heading, log and clock carry your position forward. · 8 min read · 100 questions
  3. 3. Position fixing & the compassA fix is two or more position lines that cross: bearings, transits, ranges, depths. · 8 min read · 100 questions
  4. 4. Tides & tidal streamsThe almanac gives high and low water. · 9 min read · 100 questions
  5. 5. Pilotage, buoyage & lightsPilotage is navigation by eye in the last mile, with no time for chartwork. · 9 min read · 100 questions
  6. 6. Passage planning & passage makingA passage plan settles four things before you slip: can boat and crew do it, when must you be where, what could stop you, and where you go instead. · 8 min read · 100 questions
  7. 7. International collision regulations (COLREGs)This level works by rule number: is she in sight, what do her lights, shapes or signals make her, which rule decides? · 10 min read · 100 questions
  8. 8. MeteorologyYou forecast for yourself here: chart, barometer and sky first, then the official forecast weighed against the coast. · 8 min read · 100 questions
  9. 9. Safety at sea & emergenciesEvery question here gives you a situation and a clock: a crew in the water, smoke, a lee shore four cables off. · 10 min read · 100 questions
  10. 10. Ropework, anchoring, boat handling & dockingSeamanship is choosing the method before you start: which knot, how much chain, which line first, which sail. · 10 min read · 100 questions
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Practise by topic with the reason after every answer, take a timed mock exam, and see your progress per topic. Free, no sign-up, in the browser or in Telegram.

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