Most Aon pilot selections close with non-cognitive stages: a situational judgement element presenting workplace scenarios, and a personality questionnaire mapping your working style. There are no trick answers here, but there is a trap — trying to impersonate an imagined ideal pilot instead of presenting a consistent, honest picture.
Consistency is the whole game
Personality questionnaires ask about the same traits repeatedly in different phrasings; contrived answers drift apart, honest ones stay aligned.
Your profile is read alongside your interview and, at some operators, a simulator or group exercise — selectors compare the picture across stages.
In situational judgement items, prioritise safety, communication and procedure over heroics; when in doubt, choose the option a sensible first officer would take.
Be aware that some airlines run a proctored verification retest of key modules at a later, supervised stage — another reason your unsupervised sitting must reflect your real ability, not outside help.
Test-day strategy
Do the unsupervised assessment in one calm sitting: quiet room, wired connection if possible, phone away.
Read each module's instructions and worked example fully — with formats this unusual, the instruction screen is worth marks.
Modules are short and strictly timed, so a bad module is over quickly; reset completely before the next one starts.
Taper in the final two days: light familiarisation runs only, no new material.
How to prepare
Take the Big Five personality test on the practice page before your assessment. It is not Aon's questionnaire, but it covers the same trait landscape, and knowing your own profile is what lets you answer the real thing — and discuss it later in an interview — honestly and without hesitation. Then use the Forced-Choice Personality Questionnaire to feel the most-like-me/least-like-me format Aon's shapes instrument uses, and the Situational Judgement Test to calibrate your scenario judgement against an expert reference before the real SJT items arrive.