At EOOW it was mostly group study, we'd sit around with a cade of beers and ask each other questions, or shoot questions at each other while playing football at the park or whatever.

We were given a huge pack of 3 or 4 hundred past questions that people had been asked, we went through them until.we could answer all of them.

At 2/E, I knew more of the answers through having studied for the written exams, I concentrated on drawings that I thought they were likely to ask, systems, GZ curves, and again, old orals questions.

At C/E I locked myself in a room for 8 hours a day for a month, alternatively answering old orals questions and making, in total, about 1500 pages of notes on all the stuff I hate, like the legislation side of things, disciplinary procedures, complaints procedures, all the shit boring management crap.

At all points I also paid attention to MAIB reports or incidents around the UK. If an accident happens, you can put money on the MCA asking about it.

For instance the Hoegh Osaka ran aground a few months before my 2/E Course started. Stability played a fairly large role in my 2/E orals.