Aryan · Founder, Ready Aviator · 17 June 2026

Every DGCA paper ranked by pass rate, so you know where to put your prep hours

We ranked all seven CPL papers by how often a written paper passes, using every result DGCA ever published. Some are coin flips. One deserves the biggest block on your calendar.

Directorate General of Civil AviationEvery published result

The ladder

ToughestAir Navigation, 30 in 100
Roughly a coin flipAviation Meteorology
Passes three in fourTechnical Specific
Split weeks by the ladderNot evenlyMethod, not memory
30 in 100Air Navigation papers written that pass.
About halfAviation Meteorology.
Three in fourTechnical Specific.
Half still unfinishedOf everyone who ever attempted Air Navigation.
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Papers written that pass, out of 100

Out of every 100 papers written, how many passEvery published result, 2024 – April 2026 · *DGCA-conducted RTR results cover one session (2025) only.
RTR*89
Technical Specific77
Aviation Meteorology52
Technical General50
Air Regulation44
Air Navigation30
Radio Aids25

Written papers only, counted from every DGCA CPL result ever published. RTR sits on top on a single session of results, so hold it loosely. Radio Aids belongs to a small group of students on the older syllabus; if that is not you, cross it off.

Air Navigation

The biggest block on the calendar

About half of everyone who has attempted Air Navigation has not cleared it yet, against roughly one in four for Meteorology. Most of that gap is students giving their toughest paper the same hours as their easiest one. It rewards method over memorising: wind triangles, drift, headings, the CX-3 sequence.

Splitting the weeks

By the ladder, not evenly

Meteorology and the technical papers reward steady revision. Air Navigation wants daily problem-solving, the way you would train for a sport. The papers near the top still need real prep, just not your biggest block.

Practise the real papers

Where the hours should go

Five per chapter, open, with the working underneath.

Question 5 of 20Answer shown

What is the highest latitude listed below at which the sun will reach an altitude of 90⁰ above the horizon at some time during the year?
a23⁰b45⁰c66⁰

How the answer is reached

  1. The sun is overhead somewhere on the earth every day, and that point moves north and south with the seasons.
  2. Because the axis is tilted 23½°, the point stops at 23½° north in June and 23½° south in December. It never goes past either.
  3. 45⁰ and 66⁰ are both outside that band, so the sun never stands at 90⁰ over them.

Answer 23⁰the only latitude in the list inside the band

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