Boat licence guides

• Which boat licence — Mashit 30, 11, 12 or 13 — Four licences, four kinds of vessel, and exams of very different sizes. Every difference, explained for someone who is not on the inside yet.
• What the boat licence theory exam looks like — How many questions, how much time, how many you may get wrong, and what a question actually looks like — before you see one for the first time in the exam.
• How long to prepare for the boat licence exam — The answer depends far more on the licence than on you, because the amount of material differs hugely between them. Here is how to work it out for yourself.
• Common mistakes in the boat licence exam — Not mistakes in the material — mistakes in the way you study it. The ones that send people who knew the material home with a ‘fail’.
• Failing topics: why one mistake fails the exam — Some questions have no average: a wrong answer to any one of them fails the whole exam, even if everything else is right.