I got a 90, was hoping to do a little better. I did 4 or 5 of the Gleim practice tests and never got less than a 96. It's 100 questions so to get a 70 to pass, you can miss 30 damn questions, which is A LOT. Some of that stuff you can memorize, of the 10 I missed, 3 of them were ones that I second guessed and went back and changed my answers, classic mistake. The others were either "Doh! I should have read the question more completely" or like the FAA likes to do, a couple of them were fairly simple but worded in a way that was confusing, like "Option A is the only one that sounds correct, but the 3 extra words they put at the end of it there throws that right out the window". The good thing is, there are rarely more than 1 or 2 questions from each topic, so if there is an area or two you aren't as strong in, it's not gonna kill you. There were 3 HSI questions, that to me seemed pretty tricky (I missed one of them). Memorizing works for a lot of them, but some will be worded a little differently so might throw you off, but will only be a few. The performance questions really aren't that bad, as long as you remember to correct for non standard temp, luckily the lapse rate is 2 deg per 1000, just multiply the first digit of the pressure alt by 2 to get standard temp and subtract from the ambient (i.e. temp is 18 deg C at 4,000 feet PA, 4 (first digit of PA) x 2 = 8 deg C (standard temp), just find the difference from standard and the table will give you the correction factor for x amount of degrees above standard. Hope that makes sense.
