Originally Posted by
rickair7777
ATP keeps track of which questions out of that HUGE question bank actually show up on the tests, and their training focuses on those. For many of the problems (flight plan/W&B/Performance) you can just learn to recognize the correct answer when you see it, instead of spending an hour on calculations (to answer one problem).
That's not necessarily true for the calculation based questions. A few years ago, the FAA started using random numbers in the real test instead of the same ones they publish in the practice guides. I don't know if that made it to the ATP test, but the Private and Instrument were supposed to be that way. Could be dangerous just memorizing the answers for calc questions, but by all means do it for the other questions.