I do share Jon's concerns about learning by rote - partially because I can't retain facts as well as I could when I was at school and partially because I do wonder whether it's relevant to beekeeping. I haven't done BBKA module 5 (done the others apart from 8) as I don't know if I can be bothered to learn the name of all those body parts. Beekeepers that find the modules easy can tend to be those who work in science or have been in education - science teachers seem to whizz through for example. Credit to them for knowing their tibia from their metatarsus but it doesn't necessarily make them able to get to grips with a bunch of colonies. However how do you set an exam without a reasonable degree of factual knowledge?