Captain's License Prep: 6-Pack Help

Captain's License Prep: 6-Pack helps you practice for the OUPV (“6-pack”) and Master less than 100 GRT deck exams: Rules of the Road, Deck General, Deck Safety and Navigation General. Here are answers to common questions. How the app handles your data is described in the Privacy Policy, and the rules for using it in the Terms of Use. If you still need help, email us (see Contact at the end).

About the questions

• Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to the U.S. Coast Guard or the National Maritime Center.
• Questions come from material the U.S. Coast Guard published as public information: the National Maritime Center's sample exams and the 2015 public question bank. The current exam may differ.
• Answers and explanations are written by us. Every explanation quotes its source from a U.S. government document (the Navigation Rules, 33 and 46 CFR, the Coast Pilot, the Light List, NOAA or the Coast Guard Boat Crew Handbooks) with its rule, section or page.
• Each quote is machine-matched against the document it cites, and every explanation is re-checked by a second, independent reviewer.
• Rules of the Road questions are labeled International, Inland, or both.
• Chart plotting is not included as an exam module, because it needs a paper chart.

Free week and plans

• Every feature is free for 7 days from the first time you open the app on a device.
• After the free week, starting practice, review, bookmarked questions or a new mock exam needs a plan: a monthly or yearly subscription, or a one-time Lifetime purchase, sold through the App Store or Google Play. The plans appear when you start one of these.
• To see the plans at any time: Settings › Subscription (the last section) › View plans.
• Without a plan, your progress, your past exam results and their explanations stay available, and a mock exam you already started can be finished.
• To restore a purchase on a new or reset device, or after reinstalling: Settings › Subscription › Restore purchases. Use the same Apple Account or Google account you bought with.
• To cancel or change a subscription:
  • iPhone and iPad: Settings app › your name › Subscriptions › Captain's License Prep: 6-Pack. Apple's guide: https://support.apple.com/en-us/118428
  • Android: Google Play app › your profile picture › Payments & subscriptions › Subscriptions › Captain's License Prep: 6-Pack. Google's guide: https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/7018481
• Deleting the app does not cancel a subscription. Refunds are handled by Apple or Google under their own rules:
  • Apple: https://support.apple.com/en-us/118223
  • Google Play: https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/2479637
• If your payment is pending, the plan starts when the store completes it.

Mock exams

• Each module has a timed mock exam in the module format, with questions drawn from its topic areas.
• There is no feedback until you submit. You can flag questions and check all your answers on the review screen before you submit.
• If you leave an exam, your answers are saved and the timer keeps running. If time runs out while the app is closed, the exam is submitted when you open it again. Unanswered questions count as wrong.
• After full-length mock exams, the Study tab shows Ready or Not yet for that module. It is based on your practice results in this app and does not predict your exam result.

Review and bookmarks

• A question you miss comes back for review on later days until you answer it correctly.
• Practice sets show due reviews first, then new questions. Questions due today are also listed in Review.
• Tap the bookmark at the top of a question to save it. Saved questions are listed in Bookmarks.

Reporting a problem with a question

• On a practice question, tap the report button at the top of the screen, next to the bookmark. Choose a reason, add details if you like, and tap Write email.
• This opens your own email app with the question ID, the reason, your note, the start of the question text and the app and question bank versions filled in. Nothing is sent until you press send. If no email app is found, the app copies our email address instead.
• Please do not include questions you saw on an actual license exam.
• Corrected questions arrive with app updates.

Languages

• The app's screens are available in English, Chinese (Simplified), Hindi, Spanish, French, Arabic and Bengali. Questions and quoted sources are in English.
• The app follows your device language, and there is no language menu inside the app. To use a different language for this app only, open your device settings: on iPhone and iPad, find Captain's License Prep: 6-Pack in the Settings app and choose Language; on Android 13 or later, go to Settings › Apps › Captain's License Prep: 6-Pack › Language.

Offline and no account

• Questions, explanations and quotes are built into the app, so you can study without an internet connection. There is no account and no sign-in.
• Your progress is stored only on this device. It is not backed up or moved to a new phone, so a new device starts with a fresh study record. A plan you bought moves with your Apple Account or Google account: use Restore purchases.

Resetting progress

• Settings › Your data › Reset progress deletes your answers, bookmarks, review schedule and exam results on this device, including an exam in progress, and the record of your problem reports. It cannot be undone.
• Resetting does not restart the free week and does not affect a plan you bought.

Usage statistics

To help improve the app, it can send anonymous statistics about which screens and features are used (Google Analytics for Firebase). Your answers, notes and name are never sent. In the European Economic Area and Switzerland the app asks first. You can turn this off at any time in Settings › Preferences › Send app usage statistics. Details are in the Privacy Policy.