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How many correct answers does the official CI exam page require on its 36-question written test?

example@example.com (HookedLee) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

A. 24
B. 28
C. 30
D. 36

Answer: C. Thirty correct answers are required on the 36-question written test.

The official CI Exam page publishes the paper’s shape: 36 multiple-choice or true/false questions, and thirty correct answers to pass. The number is a fixed pass mark, not an estimate from how hard the paper feels or how many questions you usually get right in practice.

Read it as a breadth test. The questions cover casting mechanics, fly tackle, knots and teaching, and a candidate has to choose between close options across all four. A study plan that lives in one chapter leaves the rest of the paper unguarded. The CI Study Guide is the material FFI points candidates at, and its breadth matches the paper’s.

Keep the written test in proportion, too. It is one part of an exam that also includes the workshop and the performance exam; thirty correct answers clears the written gate and nothing more. The casting and the teaching still have to be demonstrated in person.

Source

From the CI Exam page (FFI); see also the paper exam page; study material is the CI Study Guide (2025).

Which list matches the subjects explicitly named on the official written-exam page?

example@example.com (HookedLee) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

A. Casting mechanics only
B. Entomology and navigation only
C. Teaching only
D. Casting mechanics, fly tackle, knots and teaching

Answer: D. The page names four subjects: casting mechanics, fly tackle, knots and teaching.

That is the published list, word for word. Each of the other options either narrows it to one of those subjects or leaves the list entirely. “Casting mechanics only” and “teaching only” each keep one heading and drop three; entomology and navigation are not named on the page at all.

The question says “explicitly named”, so answer from that page rather than from a remembered syllabus or a course outline. The list is also a study map: four headings to audit your preparation against. A candidate who can talk fluently about loop control but not about the difference between a blood knot and a surgeon’s join has just found a gap.

Cover all four rather than picking a favourite; the page gives no basis for treating any one of them as optional. The CI Study Guide is organised to support that breadth.

Source

From the CI Exam page (FFI); see also the paper exam page; study material is the CI Study Guide (2025).

True or false: passing a self-written practice bank alone establishes readiness for the performance examination.

example@example.com (HookedLee) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Answer: false. A practice bank tests what you can recall; it cannot establish that you can cast and teach to the performance standard. Passing a bank you wrote yourself is the weakest version of that evidence, because the questions and the answers come from the same person.

FFI’s preparation guidance points elsewhere. It recommends working with a mentor, and it recommends at least one full practice test — more if possible — given, ideally, by someone other than your main mentor. The FAQ goes further: successful completion of a practice test with a validated examiner is the clearest indication of readiness.

A question bank still has a use. It exposes gaps in terminology and definition, and it is easy to repeat. Keep it in that role: a revision tool that tells you what to look up next, not a certificate of readiness. The performance exam is a casting and teaching test, and only a person watching you cast and teach can tell you whether you are ready.

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From the CI preparation and examination FAQ; see also the paper exam page; study material is the CI Study Guide (2025).

True or false: failing the written test necessarily prevents taking the performance exam that day.

example@example.com (HookedLee) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Answer: false. The FAQ says a candidate who fails the written test can still take the performance exam that day. A failed paper does not close the rest of the day.

The two results are still linked. If you fail the written test and pass the performance exam, you must retake the written test on another date within one year. The performance pass stands, but certification needs both, so the written paper is deferred rather than cancelled.

The reverse rule is worth knowing at the same time. Pass the written and fail the performance, and you do not need to repeat the written if you retake the performance within one year. Leave the retake longer than a year and the written test must be repeated as well. In both directions the one-year limit decides how much you repeat.

Learn both rules before test day. A candidate who knows them can plan a retake calmly instead of assuming that one bad paper ends the attempt.

Source

From the CI preparation and examination FAQ; see also the paper exam page; study material is the CI Study Guide (2025).

If you pass the written exam but fail the performance exam, what does the current FAQ say about retaining the written result?

example@example.com (HookedLee) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

The current FAQ says you do not need to repeat the written exam, provided you retake the performance exam within one year. Take longer than a year and the written test must be repeated as well.

That makes the one-year window the thing to plan around. Once the written result is in hand, book the performance retake inside the year and the written paper stays valid. Let the year pass and you sit both exams again.

The rule cuts both ways, which is worth remembering when the results arrive in the other order: if the written test is the one you failed and the performance exam is the one you passed, the written test has to be retaken on another date within one year.

FAQ answers are policy, not physics, and policy gets revised. Check the current version again before you book, and do not rely on a cached page or a forum post. The date of the retake matters more than the memory of the rule.

Source

From the CI preparation and examination FAQ; the same answers are reproduced on the CI exam FAQ; verify the current version before booking.