"Le Chaud Lapin" wrote

As I mentioned, I was sitting in lobby of flight school one day,
toward the end of ground school class, and there were 7-8 students
cramming for their final and to take FAA KT. We were talking about
what we think we should know, and one of the students hintet that
understanding was not really important.

Anyone who thinks that will be in for a surprise when they take the oral
portion of the practical test, if they get that far. Good instructors will
be checking their students' comprehension of the required knowledge on a
continuing basis as flight lessons progress. I doubt that you would get a
signoff for your practical from an instructor who suspected that you were
only at the rote learning level.

I think these topics would be easier to remember if they were thought
through. For example, remember 29.92 on barometer is good, but would
be better if people had some idea of where 29.92 comes from. I asked
around the room, and no one knew, not even the CFI.

If true, that's one end of the spectrum I suppose, and one isolated
instance.

BDS