Mariner’s Polytechnic Colleges Foundation

PRE-LIM EXAM, NAV. 3

SCORES EQUIVALENT
NAME:__________________________________SECTION:______________DATE:______________
Multiple choice: Encircle the letter of the correct answer.

1. A comprehensive reference in a graphical and textual form detailing the worldwide inventory of all Admiralty Charts and Publication.
a. NP 131 c. NP 130
b. NP 133 d. NP 132
2. A comprehensive source of information covering all aspects of maritime communications.
a. Admiralty Tide Table c. Admiralty Sailing Directions
b. Admiralty List of Radio Signals d. Admiralty List of Lights and Fog Signals
3. Nautical publication number and volume that includes Telemedical Assistance Service.
a. NP281 Vol. 1 c. NP283 Vol. 1
b. NP 282 Vol. 1 d. NP284 Vol. 1
4. Nautical publication number and volume that includes radio quarantine and pollution reports, and anti-piracy contact table.
a. NP284 Vol.1 c. NP281 Vol.1
b. NP285 Vol.1 d. NP286 Vol.1
5. Nautical publications that provide essential information to support port entry and coastal navigation for all classes of ships at sea.
a. Admiralty Sailing Directions c. Admiralty Tide Tables
b. Admiralty List of Radio Signals d. Admiralty List of Lights & Fog Signals
6. It serves the purpose of correcting and updating charts, which are being supplied to the vessels electronically or in paper format.
a. Admiralty Chart Corrections c. Admiralty Chart Updating
b. Admiralty Notices to Mariners d. Notices for Chart Corrections
7. A kind of notice to mariners published when important changes affecting navigation are to take place soon.
a. Temporary notices c. Preliminary notices
b. Future notices d. Important notices
8. In correcting a chart, the term used when a feature remains in its existing charted position but has a change of characteristic.
a. Delete c. Replace
b. Move d. Amend
9. In correcting a chart, the term used when features are to be removed from the chart.
a. Delete c. Insert
b. Replace d. Amend
10. In correcting a chart, the term used when one feature replaces an existing feature and the position remains as charted.
a. Delete c. Amend
b. Replace d. Move
11. A line of position plotted on a chart, parallel or substantially parallel to the intended course of a vessel.
a. Bearing line c. Course line
b. Parallel line d. Position line
12. The direction of travel of the vessel.
a. Heading c. Course line
b. Course d. Heading line
13. The compass direction in which the vessel's bow is pointed.
a. Course c. Course line
b. Heading line d. Heading
14. A reference point that helps us know where we are and where we are going.
a. Latitude c. Longitude
b. Waypoint d. Position
15. An intermediate point on a route or line of travel.
a. Waypoint c. Latitude
b. Course line d. Longitude
16. This is a highly useful publication which contains all the meanings of chart symbols and abbreviations used on Admiralty and International
Charts compiled by the UKHO.
a. NP5012 c. NP501
b. NP502 d. NP5011
17. On navigational charts, the abbreviation TSS means?
a. Traffic sailing scheme c. Traffic separation scheme
b. Traffic separation services d. Traffic sign scheme
18. In the navigational chart, the arrow symbol and magenta color in between traffic separation schemes represent?
a. The direction of traffic flow c. Inshore traffic zone
b. Safety fairway d. Deepwater route
19. In plotting a course line, it should be labeled with ______?
a. Course and speed c. Heading and distance
b. Course and distance d. Heading and speed
20. The art and science of recording navigational data on a marine chart. It consists of accurately drawing various kinds of lines and symbols
on a chart and labeling them correctly.
a. Planning c. Piloting
b. Sailing d. Plotting
21. A structure with a powerful light that gives continuous or intermittent signals built on or near the shore to serve as a navigational aid or
to warn ships at sea.
a. Lightships c. Lighthouse
b. Light buoys d. Light list
22. A Nautical publication that provides coverage of light structures including lighthouses, lightships, lit floating marks, fog signals and other
lights of navigational significance.
a. Sailing Directions c. Tide Tables
b. Radio Signals d. Light List
23. The three features to describe a lighthouse or light buoy lights are?
a. Color, shape, period c. Color, height, range
b. Color, period, phase characteristics d. Color, height, phase characteristics
24. The characteristics of light wherein the duration of the light phase is equal to the duration of the dark phase.
a. Flashing c. Occulting
b. Alternating d. Isophase
25. The characteristic of light wherein the duration of light phases is greater than the duration of the dark phases.
a. Isophase c. Occulting
b. Alternating d. Flashing
26. The characteristic of light wherein the duration of light phases is less than the duration of dark phases.
a. Flashing c. Quick flashing
b. Long flashing d. Group flashing
27. Light characteristics of F.R.55m12M are defined as?
a. Fix Red 55 minutes 12 meters c. Fix Red 55 meters 12 miles
b. Flashing Red 55 minutes 12 miles d. Flashing Red 55 meters 12 miles
28. You observed a lighthouse with the light characteristic of Fl(3)10s60m25M. What does 25M stand for?
a. Elevation of light is 25 meters c. Duration of light phase is 25 minutes
b. Light is visible for 25 miles in clear visibility d. Light is visible for 25 miles in restricted visibility
29. A device or structure external to the ship, designed to assist in the determination of position, to define a safe course, or to warn of
dangers or obstructions.
a. Aid to navigation c. Navigation aid
b. Buoys d. Landmarks
30. It is the sequence and length of light and dark periods and the color or colors by which a navigational light is identified.
a. Light phase c. Light duration
b. Light characteristics d. Light visibility
31. A chart showing direction and strength of prevailing winds, temperature, storm paths, positions of rocks, shoals, and other information
helpful to navigators.
a. Synoptic charts c. Weather charts
b. Nautical charts d. Pilot charts
32. These charts are essential for use in passage planning for ocean voyages. They include routes and distances between major ports, ocean
currents, ice limits, load lines, and wind roses.
a. Nautical charts c. Coastal charts
b. Routeing charts d. Pilot charts
33. A four-volume book, which contains comprehensive port data on global commercial ports, terminals, and harbors around the world to
facilitate the planning of a port call.
a. Port entry guide c. Guide to port entry
b. Entry guide to port d. Port guide entry
34. When consulting the guide to port entry, which volume consists of detailed port information laid out in logical sequence across 83
headings?
a. Vol. 1 & 2 c. Vol. 3 & 4
b. Vol. 1 & 3 d. Vol. 2 & 4
35. When consulting the guide to port entry, what volume provide usable and detailed port plans and mooring diagrams.
a. Vol. 1 & 2 c. Vol. 2 & 4
b. Vol. 1 & 3 d. Vol. 3 & 4
36. Volume 3 and 4 of guide to port entry consist of?
a. Plans c. Port Information
b. Text d. Berthing Information
37. Volume 1 and 2 of Guide to port entry consist of?
a. Berthing equipment c. Text
b. Berthing diagram d. Plans
38. In preparing a passage plan for ocean voyages, Which charts are essential to use?
a. Routeing charts c. Plotting charts
b. General charts d. Coastal charts
39. The four stages in preparing a passage plan are?
a. Planning, execution, monitoring, appraisal, c. Monitoring, execution, planning, appraisal
b. Planning, monitoring, appraisal, execution d. Appraisal, planning, execution, monitoring
40. A procedure of developing a complete description of a vessel’s voyage from start to finish.
a. Waypoint c. Planning
b. Passage planning d. Monitoring
41. The horizontal angle between the direction of an object and another object, or between it and that of true north.
a. Relative bearing c. Line of position
b. True bearing d. Compass bearing
42. The clockwise angle from the heading of the vessel to a straight line drawn from the observation station on the vessel to the object.
a. True bearing c. Compass bearing
b. Line of position d. Relative bearing
43. What are the common errors of a magnetic compass?
a. Deviation c. Variation
b. Variation and Deviation d. Acceleration and Deceleration
44. A type of compass that is used to find direction through a needle that always points north.
a. Gyrocompass c. Magnetic compass
b. Master compass d. Compass repeater
45. A type of compass in which the direction of true north is maintained by a continuously driven gyroscope whose axis is parallel to the
earth's axis of rotation.
a. Magnetic compass c. Master compass
b. Gyro repeater d. Gyrocompass
46. The horizontal angle between the true north and magnetic north measured East or West according to whether magnetic north lies
East or West of true north.
a. Deviation c. Declination
b. Variation d. Deviation angle
47. The angle between the magnetic meridian and the axis of a compass card expressed in degrees East or West to indicate in which direction
the end of the compass card is offset from magnetic north.
a. Deviation c. Variation
b. Meridian angle d. Deviation angle
48. You are on course 027°T and took a Bearing of a lighthouse and found to be 220°R. What is the true bearing of a lighthouse?
a. 193°T c. 247°T
b. 193°R d. 247°R
49. You are sailing along the North Pacific Ocean. The variation in your locality is 5°W (2010) and is decreasing 5’ annually. What is the value
of variation in the year (2019)?
a. 4°15’E c. 5°45’E
b. 5°45’W d. 4°15’W
50. If the variation is 4°W, and the deviation is 2°E. What is the value of compass error?
a. 2°E c. 6°W
b. 2°W d. 6°E