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Brevet d'initiation aéronautique (BIA)
Aeronautical initiation certificate
The aeronautical initiation certificate (BIA), a school-level exam that introduces teenagers to aviation; it unlocks flying-federation grants rather than a licence.
The exam
- Set by
- France's Ministry of National Education (the académies), with the transport ministry and CNFAS
- The paper
- 100 multiple-choice questions in five themes in 2 hours; pass with 50 out of 100; an optional 20-question English test
- How it is sat
- Once a year, mostly through school clubs, with no required course
- Where
- France, in French
What Licento would give you
- Practice questions written to this exam's syllabus, scheduled up to your exam date.
- Mock exams in the real exam's format, timed and marked the same way.
- How ready you are, topic by topic, so you know where to spend your time.