MMD Oral Questions for Exams Preparation

FUNCTION – 1

1	What is amplitude?
2	What is Isogonic chart?
3	What is BNWAS, ECDIS requirements & performance standards?
4	What are the maintenance of Magnetic compass?
5	What are Neap tides?
6	What are Spring tides?
7	Why are we required to know about them during our passage planning?
8	What is INSPIRE ( Indian Ship Position & Information Reporting System) & where is It’s headquarter?
9	What are the Meteorological equipments on bridge?
10	What are the Meteorological equipments on bridge?
11	What is Passage Planning?
12	Sailing in navarea 3 to 4 suddenly voyage order changes to NAV Area 5.
13	What action will you take after sending false alert on HF?
14	What is the procedure to log Distress alert?
15	What are the corrections of chart catalogue & how to do it & which section of NTM will u find it?
16	Define Tactical diameter & transfer?
17	How many navareas? How will you select stations on navtex? How will you get navigational warnings outside navareas when you have lost all satellite antennas?
18	Which ALRS volume contains the details of racons?
19	How to correct ASD in detail?
20	What are the precautions while using GPS Fix at sea not in coastal waters?
21	How will you check RADAR performance?
22	What is the proper meaning of Word Impede?
23	What is annex 4 distress signal in detail?
24	What is your action on hearing Fog signal?
25	Action in case of Gyro fails?
26	What is range of NUC light?
27	Action in MOB on port side ?
28	Describe all the 4 annexes.
29	What is the Diameter of ball?
30	What are the Safe water marks, Lateral marks & Isolated danger marks?
31	What is the significance of each type of buoy?
32	What is Barometric Tendency & its significance?
33	How we will know ASD is upto date or not?
34	What is the purpose of INTERCO?
35	What is Answering Pennant?
36	Make a wind rose diagram.
37	How will you determine iceberg in your locality during day & night?
38	What are Routing Chart details?
39	What changes you will make in Navtex?
40	What precaution regarding UKC to be kept in mind while planning passage ?
41	What is Static and Dynamic Draft?
42	What was your company's UKC policy?
43	What is Steering tests prior departure?
44	What do you mean by gyro error LOW or HIGH ?
45	One simple numerical about deviation,variation and compass error
46	Definition of crossing situations?
47	What is Occulting, flashing and Isophase Light? What is very quick?
48	What all publications do you carry on board and in how many years new edition for each is printed?
49	What is SafetyNET ?
50	PDV ( POWER DRIVEN VESSEL) underway lights
51	How will you determine if risk of collision exits, without using radar
52	What is minimum CPA required to avoid close quater situation ?
53	Circumstances for calling master ?
54	O/T situation, give way Vessel not taking action ?
55	CBD light and shapes underway, RAM definitions, Brief TSS .
56	What is lateral marks, Isolated danger marks?
57	What is Bridge control tests prior departure?
58	How to do steering tests?
59	How to find compass,gyro errors ?
60	When approching pilot station within ITZ ?
61	Trawler, fishing vessel, Pilot vessel lights and shapes
62	What is Radio Medical Advise and message to prepare?
63	From where we get the list of medicine required to carry onboard?
64	Fire in galley you are incharge, What will be your actions?
65	What is Relative bearing?
66	Define a vessel NUC, RAM, CBD & their lights.
67	Define Safe speed?
68	Quote rule 5,6,19 & situations on the same rules
69	What is Region A & B as per IALA buoyage?
70	What is cardinal marks, isolated danger marks, fairway buoy?
71	Where to keep red buoy when sailing out from bombay ?
72	How to correct charts which is not corrected for last 3 years ?
73	What are errors of magnetic compass ?
74	What do you understand by gyro error 1 degree high ?
75	What is Squat and its effect on ships ?
76	What is Notices to mariners and ALRS ?
77	Prepare muster list for abandon ship (to assign duties).
78	When to call master ?
79	When Radar not working, how to keep a proper lookout ?
80	Emergency - engine breakdown , what is your actions ?
81	What are factors affecting UKC ?
82	What is CPA & Is 0.2 nm a safe CPA ?
83	Own vessel CBD, narrow channel, NUC vessel is right ahead, what is your action ?
84	What is responsibility of CBD as per rule 18 ?
85	when you lowering boat with three person and you are incharge?
86	Action when engine failure while navigation 25 nm away from land.
87	Muster list contents , draw roughy and show .
88	Define celestrial sphere, amplitude, azimuth , sextant error.
89	Light show by NUC vessel while underway,making way and at anchor.
90	What is medical reporting produre and where station is located?
91	Compass error calculate when gyro course 143 deg, compass course 148deg, gyro error 2 deg high.
92	Variation 2 deg west ( annually 2 min increasing to west from 1982) gyro bearing 123, find deviation ,stb compass bearing.
93	IN ROR only situation overtaking. R.v overtaking.
94	You are taking delivery of new ship how will you implement garbage management plan on board .
95	As a 2nd officer what will you take over in medicine part .
96	Vessel towing 3 vessels along side what lights it will show.
97	What do you mean by ordinary practice of seamen in rule no. 2 ?
98	You r taking delivery of new ship how will you implement garbage management plan on board ?
99	As a 2nd officer wat will u take over in medicine part .
100	Vessel towing 3 vessels along side wat lights it will show.
101	What do you mean by ordinary practice of seamen in rule no. 2 ?
102	Action in RV one vessel fwd of beam port side and another is taking over stbd side action ?
103	Quote rule no.5, and meaning of all available mean & chart symbol for works different types of work ?
104	Headon sitiation action ,radar plotting,all cardinal marks n falshing duration.you are overtaking in TSS suddenly that vessel altered co towards you action
105	Action in RV one vessel fwd of beam port side and another is taking over stbd side action.
106	Code rule no.5,meaning of all avai means chart simble for wks diff types of wk.
107	New danger mark,special mark,isolated danger.preffered channel buoys of region a and b 9.
108	IAMSAR manuals and purpose of vol3 and whart are raster and vector charts
109	What is data available in dynamic data of AIS?
110	When to call master and what actions to be taken if its RV ?
111	How to determine visibility is detoriating in night.
112	Action to be taken if person falls overboard.
113	What is advance,tactical dia and tranfer what are the imo requirements for that?
114	What is 'c' correction in sights and how will you take a sight ?
115	Action to be taken whn you see a white light.
116	What will you do when you find the diffrence between your actual position by your GPS and sight has an error of 50Nm ?
117	How will you determine the waypoints and wheelover points while altering course on a chart.
118	What is prefered channel to STBD (draw) in region A and where will you place the bouy ?
119	Contents of roeuting guide mand ocean passages of the world .
120	Few cards also and regrding NUC and vessel AGROUND .
121	How to file T and P ?
122	You have a chart corrected till 2010 jan, procedure to check if its corrected up to date, if not , how will you correct. Reason for your answer.
123	Course 180 sighted south cardinal bouy right ahead,action. Light of south cardinal buoy .
124	How often is the survey of medical chest on board carried out?
125	How many GPS you had on board?
126	Difference between GPS and DGPS and Errors of GPS.
127	When do you do stearing gear test. What all is checked. Required capability of stearing gear
128	what is iamsar manuals and purpose of vol3 ?
129	What are raster and vector charts. Ecs and ecdis difference ?
130	How many sight you can take in the morning,
131	Whats the limit for ex- meridian sight ?
132	When is difficult to take merpass. Sights and auto pilot testing interval ?
133	Quote Rule 9, 13, 15.
134	What is Gyro error and how will you take in normal forecast & overcast.
135	What is muster list preparation.
136	How to approach TRS ?
137	What is Navtex settings ?
138	What is EGC messages ?
139	Difference between clearing mark & clearing bearing.
140	What is great circle sailing ?
141	Quote Rule 9, 13, 15.
142	what is gyro error and how will you take in normal forecast & overcast ?
143	How muster list preparation ?
144	How to approach TRS ?
145	What is Navtex settings ?
146	What is EGC messages ?
147	Difference between clearing mark & clearing bearing.
148	What is great circle sailing?
149	What is cardinal marks and preferred channel buoys ?
150	What information you get from ARPA ?
151	On a paper showed various targets with their relative vector on ppi identify situationas.
152	On a paper showed various targets with their relative vector on ppi identify situationas?
153	Draw pilot boarding station.
154	What is P.I. ? explain how to use it correctly?
155	How many sight you can take in the morning?
156	Whats the limit for ex- meridian sight ?
157	Ship is Stopped initailly, Now rudder 10 degrees to port, engines dead slow ahead, where stern and bow will swing?
158	ROR cards n situation.restricted visibility, both cases RADAR operational n inoperational you are duty officer u heard 1 prolonged blast on port bow. Action?(rule 19d 1 n 2)
159	How to obtain noon position by sun full plotting only floating(lond by chron and merpass), why pl is N-S in morning n E-W at MERPASS
160	What is eco sounder and RADAR principle , working, limitations ?
161	Why gyro compass fails at higher latitude?
162	What is MERSAS and IAMSAR ?
163	Ship draft 17 mtrs , you are approaching 20 mtrs depth,,,what effects ship will experience?
164	Methods of obtaining compass error and explaination on transit bearings
165	What is Fog signals ?
166	what do you mean by routine charts and pilot chart ? how many volumes?
167	What is ON the arc and OFF the arc in sextant means?
168	What is sextant altitute of polaris?
169	What is procedure of chart correction?
170	What is fairway buoy? And its use? Which side you willl keep this?
171	What is isolated danger mark ?
172	What is AMVER and its use?
173	What is inspires and its limit?
174	To avoid a chocked hat ,what should be angle b/w lighthouses?
175	Preacautions in narrow channel?
176	What is phasing and ranging in echo sounder
177	What do you mean by deviation card and how will you prepare it ?
178	Difference between barograph and barometer?
179	Which method should prefer for sight calculation at morning? And why?
180	What do you get after taking sight? And your next plan?
181	How will you transfer your position from one chart to another chart?
182	What is safe water mark,region A, B buoys?Its use ,shape,light,and colour?
183	Wreck not danger for navigation ,how much distance u will keep from this?
184	How do you do a sight calcualtion?
185	How do you know sun at the meridian?
186	How do you know sun at the meridian?
187	How many volumes in ALRS,how they are name? For a particular area how will u find out a selective volume?
188	What information u will get from chart cataloge?
189	Define safe "speed"?
190	What is meridian passage?
191	What is answering pandent? And its use?
192	What do you mean by moon SD , augmentation,?
193	What do you mean by moon SD , augmentation,?
194	Difference between racon,& becon?
195	Difference between racon,& becon?
196	Why we need a magnetic deviation card?
197	Principle of echo sounder,doppler log and auto pilot?
198	What is distress signal by flag??
199	Contents of notice to mariner,cumulative notice and annual notice to mariner?
200	What informatin information from chart catalogue?
201	What is pilots/sailing directions?
202	If you are in mediterrean sea, Which SD u will refer and how will you come to know?
203	How will you correct aneroid barometer ?who will correct this?
204	What is another name of routiene chart?
205	What do you mean by SART and EPIRB?
206	Difference between azimuth and bearing?
207	What do you mean by wind rose?
208	Sound signal of dredger,aground vessel,anchored vessel.
209	In poor visibilty when you are going to encounter in open sea ,no target can u reduce speed?
210	How will you fix your vessels postion if gps fails?
211	How will you identify lighthouse?
212	What is flashing, occulting, isophase?
213	How will you apply rule 5,6,7,8 & 18 onboard?
214	ROR cards for vsl towing more than 50 mtrs in length in RAM condt. and length of tow exceeds 200 mtrs and its day signal and fog signal.
215	Card for vessel aground day signal and fog signal and action to be taken if vessel is right ahead.
216	ROR card for PDV more than 50 mtrs in length with port side seen. Action as OOW.
217	Chart symbols for- wreck at which mast only is visible, reporting point, 20 mtrs countour line.
218	Contents of mariners handbook.
219	What is a navigable semicircle in a TRS?
220	How will you take meridian sight?
221	What are the errors in gyro?
222	What do you mean by latitude error?
223	What do you mean by compasses compared?
224	Great circle sailing from mallaca strait to south Africa
225	Composite circle sailing and why you do composite circle sailing
226	What is routine chart and what information you get from it ?
227	What is Blind sector in Radar?
228	What is sextant error, and how u will come to know that ur index error is correct
229	If echosounder show two marking one above and one below which one iscorrect .
230	Vessel anchor dragging action .
231	MOB in TSS, What is your Action ?
232	Which turn you will prefer in baltic williomson single turn or sharnov (failing question)asked nearly 15 situation ( all correct) ?
233	Quote rule 5 and its detail explanations .
234	What is Gnomic chart ?
235	What is ship routeing and what information we get from it ?
236	Quote rule 9, 13, 15.
237	What is Gyro error and how will you take in normal forecast & overcast ?

238	What does muster list preparation mean ?
239	How to approach TRS ?
240	Navtex settings ,EGC messages.
241	Difference between clearing mark & clearing bearing.
242	What is great circle sailing ?
243	Lights and of NUC, RAM, Pilot, SV, FV .
244	How do you know about Steering failure?
245	Difference between Long by Chron and merpass?
246	Towing vessel on port bow .
247	Qoute Rule 18 and 19 with detail explanation of each paragraph.
248	What is Leading lights?
249	What is IAMSAR and MERSAR ?
250	List of Publications on bridge ?
251	Narrow channel Rule?
252	IALA Bouyage system
253	What is meaning of Boxing of compass.
254	Explain about intercept method and mer pass and show diagramatically n write the formula
255	How will you calculate height of tide at secondary port ?write all the steps
256	What is raising of light n how to calculate the raising distance?
257	Situation you are CBD and NUC crosing from port side state action? Positiong of lights of nuc (annex 1) ?
258	You are PD vessel open sea ,no traffic you see a trawler right ahead your action? How will you determine she is at anchor n positioning of her lights?
259	You heard 4 short blast what does it mean?
260	What is landing signal ?
261	You are approaching a port and your vessel agrounds state your action ?
262	What is C correction ?
263	Characteristics, limitations and efficiency of a radar ?
264	What is north up, co. Up, head up mode of radar ?
265	Aspect and its importance in collision avoidance .
266	Speed over ground & speed through water difference,which is to be used for
267	Collision avoidance and why?
268	Difference between ECDIS and ENC .
269	Wreck with visible mast, wreck dangerous to surface navigation & wreck not dangerous to surface navigation symbols on raster charts .
270	How does a wreck marking bUoy look like?
271	Corresponding symbols on an ECDIS of the ones asked above.
272	Explain how is speed adjusted in different cond
273	Explain limitation of radar?
274	Explain why range and bearing discrimination occur
275	Explain what are constraints imposed on radar range ?
276	Explain what are the effects of wx on radar ?
277	What is sea clutter and rain clutter ?
278	You see two red light identify and take action
279	Towing alongside lights and then action
280	Pilot vessel light
281	pilot vessel light if length more than 50m
282	Placement of fwd mast light
283	Main mast light.
284	What is horrizontal spacing of lights ?
285	Full annex 1 of ROR ?
286	How a navtex msg comes ?
287	How does the msg goes from epirb ?
288	What is LRIT ?
289	What is SSAS ?
290	GMDSS equipments in area 3 .
291	What is polar navigation ?
292	How will you find direction if magnetic and gyro compass are unreliable ?
293	What is T and P correction and how do you correct it
294	What is T and P correction and how do you correct it ?
295	How to get radio medical help ?
296	What is content of ALRS volume ?
297	What is content of BPG ?
298	What is leading lights ?
299	What are methods of finding of gyro error ?
300	What is south cardinal mark ?
301	Passage planning from mumbai to Southampton .
302	What are navtex frequencies and what does ZCZC mean?
303	What is long by chron and lat by mer.alt ?
304	Own vessel NUC in TSS and CBD crossing 4nm from port side not taking any action ? What is your anchor
305	Action,shallow patch on stbd action ?
306	Own vessel PD another PD vessel crossing from stbd in tss ? What is your action
307	What is anchorage area in malacca strait and action?
308	In RV situation , heard 4 short blasts action .
309	What is difference between noon sight and noon position ?
310	What is spring and neap tides?
311	In ROR card ,stbd lateral mark IALA b ( draw) .
312	What is search patterns and their pros N cons ?
313	What is responsibilities of an overtaking vessel ?
314	Fog signals for anchor and ground vessel.
315	What is limitations of ECDIS ?
316	You heard a fog signal fwd of beam and what is your action?
317	Sextant uses ,about sextant angles.
318	Formula for vertical sextant angle.
319	What are errors of sextant and how to correct them ?
320	When rudder is stuck to 5 degree to stbd and what is your action?
321	Steering failure, What is your action?
322	Vessel collided and what is your action ?
323	What is manouvring characteristics of vessel ?
324	What is south west monsoon ?
325	Formation of clouds .
326	How to correct charts and explain in detail ?
327	Contents of annual summary of notices and cumulative notices .
328	What is transverse thrust ?
329	What is Sextant, principal, errors ?
330	Principle of AIS .
331	You saw west cardinal mark right ahead and what is action.
332	Radar characteristic and deficiencies.
333	How do you set up navtex?
334	Chart symbol. Wreck dangerous to navigation, rock, shallow patch shown on chart .
335	Arrival port chart for Singapore from chart catalogue.
336	Annual notices to mariner content.
337	Isolated danger mark bouy specification.
338	Define ISO phase, flashing and occulting.
339	Main engine failure , Your action as duty officer.
340	ECDIS and ECS difference
341	Controls of autopilot.
342	What do understand by yawing control ?
343	Normal visibility crosing situation /
344	Qoute rule 15 and 8(F).
345	What is new danger mark,special mark,isolated danger and preffered channel buoys of region A and B ?
346	What are raster and vector charts?
347	When to call master and what actions to be taken if its RV ?
348	How to determine visibility is detoriating in night ?
349	Action to be taken if person falls overboard.
350	Turning circle diagram- What is advance,tactical dia and tranfer what are the imo requirements for that?
351	The range and visiblity of masthead lights.
352	What information does you get IAMSAR ?
353	What do you mean by compatibility and segregation in IMDG ?
354	Under what situation can you use an inshore traffic zone ?
355	Explain the regulation concerning the risk of collission.
356	C.B.D. vessel at anchor, what signals will she show.
357	C.B.D. vessel in fog drops anchor, what will be her fog signal
358	Charts that have not been corrected for the past two years, how will you go about correcting them ?
359	Where will you find the latest edition of charts and how is the information presented ?
360	Make a passage plan from Mumbai to Suez ?
361	What information will you receive from your seniors, and how will it help u in making plan?
362	From where will you get information about traffic density in any area?
363	Explain routine chart?
364	How will you determine position plotting interval ?
365	Vessel on port BOW and its action ?
366	Vessel on stbd quartor , what is action ?
367	Correct a chart which has not been corrected for long time.
368	What is IAMSAR and its details ?
369	MOB on stbd side , what is your action ?
370	How radar plotting is done and gave for a overtaking vessel ?
371	Quote rule 2 , 8 , 10
372	Buoyage & cards (day + night ).
373	What was your duties as a cadet ?
374	How does bearing error occur in a radar?
375	Errors of the echo sounder with explanation?
376	What is SHA,GHA,LHA etc ?
377	Why SHA of stars given in almanac and GHA of planets and in case of stars for 3 years ?
378	Sextant errors and how will you take a sight ?
379	Can you use the 2010 almanac in 2011 and how?
380	Explanation of the corrections applied to the sights?
381	Some situations in ROR mainly crossing and overtaking (also in restricted visibility)?
382	Quote rule 19 and rule 6?
383	What is Transverse thrust ?
384	Handing/taking over watch at sea and also in port?
385	Action when entering area of RV ,seeing a vessel aground?
386	What is horizontal and vertical sectors of navigation lights?