# Percentage of Deck General Questions Obtainable from the Provided REC Reference Materials? **URL:** \ **Category:** Professional Mariner Forum\ **Created:** [May 14, 2024, 1:27pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/percentage-of-deck-general-questions-obtainable-from-the-provided-rec-reference-materials/69448 "2024-05-14T13:27:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![PilotPat24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e79b87/32.png) [@PilotPat24](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/PilotPat24)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2024, 1:27pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/percentage-of-deck-general-questions-obtainable-from-the-provided-rec-reference-materials/69448/1 "2024-05-14T13:27:57Z")
Hey Guys, Does anyone know what percentage of the Deck General exam questions answers are obtainable from the provided REC reference materials? Thanks, Pat ---
**Author:** ![Manuel\_Cx](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/manuel_cx/32/69854_2.png) [@Manuel\_Cx](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Manuel_Cx)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2024, 4:13am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/percentage-of-deck-general-questions-obtainable-from-the-provided-rec-reference-materials/69448/2 "2024-05-16T04:13:03Z")
Don’t know the percentage, but last year took the C/M test and printed out like 50 questions. ---
**Author:** ![PilotPat24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e79b87/32.png) [@PilotPat24](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/PilotPat24)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2024, 10:49am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/percentage-of-deck-general-questions-obtainable-from-the-provided-rec-reference-materials/69448/3 "2024-05-16T10:49:19Z")
Did you mean you were able to look up 50 of the questions when you took the exam? ---
**Author:** ![Robert](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/robert/32/29295_2.png) [@Robert](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Robert)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2024, 4:13pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/percentage-of-deck-general-questions-obtainable-from-the-provided-rec-reference-materials/69448/4 "2024-05-16T16:13:10Z")
The NMC web site has a sample exam for every exam they administer. So you will be able to see the number of questions from their data base that is in an actual exam ---
**Author:** ![Manuel\_Cx](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/manuel_cx/32/69854_2.png) [@Manuel\_Cx](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Manuel_Cx)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2024, 7:32am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/percentage-of-deck-general-questions-obtainable-from-the-provided-rec-reference-materials/69448/5 "2024-05-17T07:32:37Z")
Trying to remember and I think it was mostly for Deck gen 2 that you can look up. Also significant number of questions for Deck Safety on the CFR’s. But on the NMC site their is a data base, it doesn’t go far back but it helps. I took the LAP course in MITAGS, they have a pile of questions from previous years data base. Remember spending like a week looking in the CFR’s for more than 12 hours everyday. So DG-1 and RR is what you can remember, again each test is different. They threw a stability problem in DS. LAPWARE helps extremely… ---
**Author:** ![Manuel\_Cx](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/manuel_cx/32/69854_2.png) [@Manuel\_Cx](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Manuel_Cx)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2024, 7:33am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/percentage-of-deck-general-questions-obtainable-from-the-provided-rec-reference-materials/69448/6 "2024-05-17T07:33:03Z")
That is true. ---
**Author:** ![Wharf\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Wharf\_Rat](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Wharf_Rat)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2024, 5:03pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/percentage-of-deck-general-questions-obtainable-from-the-provided-rec-reference-materials/69448/7 "2024-05-17T17:03:49Z")
Best bet is to tail the sample exams, the specific types of questions that are focused on per those sample exams and just dial in on those categories. I recently tested using that method and barely had to consult a reference material or CFR other than looking up definitions in bowditch of which the REC I went to only offered the 2019 Bowditch and not the older version. ---
**Author:** ![PilotPat24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e79b87/32.png) [@PilotPat24](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/PilotPat24)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2024, 5:43pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/percentage-of-deck-general-questions-obtainable-from-the-provided-rec-reference-materials/69448/8 "2024-05-17T17:43:16Z")
Thanks for the suggestions Wharf Rat!