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OOW 3000 GT Oral Prep

Pass the OOW oral.

Everything for the MCA OOW (Yachts <3000 GT) oral examination in one place: 23 study modules built from primary official sources — SOLAS, COLREGS, STCW, MARPOL, MGN 315 — with a live AI examiner and tutor you talk to out loud.

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Your study plan to the oral

Set your oral date and study days; get each day's list through the modules, quizzes and live orals, with revision kept for the end.

Live AI study

Talk it through out loud, the way the oral works. Both are grounded in the 23 study modules and name the source regulation.

Live AI Examiner

A spoken oral, one question at a time. Practise with coaching, or sit a scored mock under exam conditions and get a debrief.

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Live AI Tutor

Pick one syllabus topic and work through it by voice. Questions first, the rule when you need it, and a summary at the end.

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Written Examiner

The same examiner in text: practice orals, scored mocks and study Q&A. Free to try — ten exchanges a day.

Written Tutor

The same Socratic tutor in text, concept by concept, with mastery checks on your record.

Study modules

The whole oral syllabus in 23 modules of short lessons, with the worked visuals and simulators where they belong, scenario questions and oral model answers.

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Before the classroom

Sitting the classroom modules soon? Learn each module's core method before you go.

Module Pre-Study — eight classroom modules

Radar and ARPA, chartwork, tides, passage planning, celestial, GMDSS, GSK and ECDIS — learn each module's core method before you sit it, with a check at the end of every lesson.

Test yourself

Self-marking practice — no AI, no waiting: flip-cards, quizzes and generated problems checked instantly with the working shown.

Flashcards & Quiz

Drill buoyage, COLREGS lights, sound signals, and flags until the answer is instant. Flip-cards plus a self-marking quiz.

Model Answers

Examiner questions with spoken-standard answers and the follow-up chains that come next. Answer aloud first, then compare.

Calculation Drills

Infinite generated problems, marked with full worked solutions — compass error, course to steer, height of tide, GM and free surface.

Interactive visual tools

Animated simulators — learn by doing. Each tool puts you in the scenario and shows the consequence of the wrong call.

Meteorology Suite

Drag your ship through a depression on the synoptic chart, escape a TRS, work local winds and fog, read a barograph trace.

Depression · TRS · Local Winds · Fog · Barograph

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Emergency Simulator

Work through 8 emergency scenarios. Choose wrong and the diagram shows what happens. Aim for zero errors.

MOB · Fire · Grounding · Flooding · 4 more

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Stability Visualiser

Move sliders for fuel, free surface, and ballast. Watch GM change live and see the vessel loll when it goes negative.

GM · GZ Curve · FSE · Loll

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Passage Planning Builder

Work all four SOLAS V/34 stages in order. The UKC table shows exactly why the shallowest leg fails — and what to do about it.

Appraisal · UKC · Execution · Monitoring

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SAR Pattern Visualiser

Animate all 5 IAMSAR search patterns. Set track spacing and watch coverage fill. Drift moves the datum mid-search.

SS · VS · PS · CS · TL · Drift · POD

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Radar & ARPA Trainer

Solve the plotting triangle on a live radar PPI. Set your PI line with the slider and see whether the mark clears it.

Plotting Triangle · CPA/TCPA · Parallel Indexing

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Note: These modules cover the MCA OOW (Yachts less than 3000 GT) oral examination syllabus as published by the UK Maritime and Coastguard Agency, drawn from primary official sources. They are a study aid — verify the currency of all regulations before your oral examination. Remember your completed Training Record Book must be presented to the examiner at the oral — the official MCA TRB is downloadable from the logbook page.