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NMC code Q171 / Q357

Navigation General — practice test

Charting, plotting, fixes, currents, tides, magnetic variation, and basic celestial. Every OUPV and Master candidate also sits the separate, dedicated Chart Plot module.

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Visual piloting — three-bearing fixes, danger bearings

Piloting is the primary method of navigation used in confined waters primarily because it relies on which of the following?

A real question from this module. Answer it and the set continues.

The paper

What this module asks, and what it costs to get it wrong

The same questions appear on both routes. What moves is how they are graded.

OUPV routes
50 questions, 15 wrong allowed, 70% to pass
Master under 100 GRT
Graded within the 210-question series at 70%, with no per-module mark published
What it covers
Charts, tides, currents, magnetic variation and aids to navigation.
NMC code
Q171 / Q357

Study order

Ten lessons, ordered by how often the module tests them

Not by rule number. Each lesson names the rule it comes from and links to the text.

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Questions

Questions candidates ask about Navigation General

How many Navigation General questions are on the exam, and how many can I miss?
50 questions, 15 wrong allowed, 70% to pass. Your Approval to Test letter assigns the modules; it is the final authority on what you sit.
Is the Navigation General paper identical for OUPV and Master under 100 GRT?
The subject is the same and the NMC code differs by route: Q171 / Q357 on the OUPV papers. A Master under 100 GRT candidate is graded within the 210-question series at 70% and the NMC publishes no per-module mark for that route.
Where do the Navigation General answers come from?
Charts, tides, currents, magnetic variation and aids to navigation. Every answer on this site opens with the regulation it tests and links to the text — 33 and 46 CFR, the COLREGs and Inland Rules, or Bowditch. If a citation ever stops resolving, the question leaves rotation.
Are these the real exam questions?
No, and nobody who says otherwise has them: the NMC does not publish its question bank. These are written to the same modules, topics and format, each one checked against the primary text by a separate model before it is published.

Sources

Checked against the primary text

Seventy percent leaves room for fifteen.

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