Stage 2 is the ADAPT battery from Symbiotics, and on the MPL it is the stage to prepare hardest for. You sit it at home in Chrome, with your webcam on and your screen shared with an invigilator you do not see, in a slot of about two hours given in UK time. There are four tests, launched one at a time in any order, with breaks allowed between them. Pen and scratch paper are allowed; a calculator is not. A personality questionnaire comes first, completed at home in the days before. The ADAPT Test Preparation course covers the battery as other operators use it too.
The four tests
Maths: 20 four-option questions in 30 minutes on a single timer, and you can skip a question and come back to it. The items are applied arithmetic done by hand at speed: speed, distance and time, fuel flow in pounds per minute and pounds to kilograms, a heading after several turns, Pythagoras inside a composite figure, minutes to decimal hours and long division. Time, not difficulty, is what costs marks.
Physics: 20 multiple-choice questions in 30 minutes, with a formula sheet on screen. Most are secondary-school calculations (resistors in series and parallel, springs, a beam that has its own weight, the pressure law in kelvin, a vertical throw, momentum, Bernoulli), mixed with general-knowledge questions in English on topics such as waves, the Moon and SI units.
Cognitive: about 36 items in about 30 minutes, some scored on response time. Expect odd-one-out shapes, number series, cube nets, routes on a city map, timed anagrams, short-exposure memory and a spoken working-memory task with no writing allowed.
FAST: a multitask flight scenario, run twice. It eliminates more candidates than any other test, and the next section takes it in detail.
FAST, the multitask flight scenario
The main screen is the view from a cockpit as the aircraft flies a route over visual waypoints such as towers, a factory, an airfield and a power station, with other traffic around it: single aircraft, formations and distant specks. At the same time you steer a small aircraft in the bottom-left corner with the keyboard and avoid collisions, click Aircraft whenever traffic appears and Waypoint as you pass each waypoint, and answer a stream of quick questions in the bottom-right corner with a few seconds for each: fraction sums, percentages, simple equations, number series, cube nets, spelling, reading a compass or an airspeed indicator. Voices, a series of beeps and a red warning light add to the load. There is no joystick; one hand stays on the keys and the other on the mouse.
After each run about ten questions ask what you noticed: how many aircraft, how many different voices, how many beeps, how often the red light came on, the name of the second waypoint, where the helicopters came from. The second run repeats the same scenario after a break that you end yourself. FAST is scored on four dimensions (Physical, Cognitive, Situational Awareness and Learning), each out of 5. Learning compares your second run with the first, so holding your level counts and getting worse costs you.
Symbiotics' own rule for the Aircraft button: every flying object is an aircraft, helicopters included; click once for a group flying together, and click every time aircraft appear, even if you think you have seen them before. The usual way to fail FAST is a good total with Situational Awareness below the minimum, so count as you fly. Keep a tally on paper, write down every count you are sure of straight after the first run, and skip a hard side question on the first run to work it out in the break for the second.
The personality questionnaire
The ADAPT Personality Questionnaire is about 300 agree-or-disagree statements, sent a few days before your stage-2 slot and completed at home, with no invigilator and no timer. The same trait is asked about in several ways, so answer honestly and consistently rather than towards a picture of the ideal pilot. It is not a formality: it can fail you on its own, even with good test scores.
Pass marks, results and retakes
CAE's minimums for the Generation easyJet programme: Maths 65%, Cognitive 65%, Physics 54%, and FAST 12/20 with at least 3/5 in each of its four dimensions. A strong FAST total does not make up for one weak dimension.
Scores can also rank you. In 2026 the EASA waiting list was ordered by stage-2 results, so a bare pass was not enough to be invited.
Results arrive by email within about a week, as an invitation to stage 3 without your scores. Ask CAE if you want them.
A fail means a six-month wait, then all four tests again. You get two attempts at stage 2 for Generation easyJet.
A pass is valid for one year.
Assessment is free of charge on both cadet routes: CAE and Skyborne each state this on their own pages.
Not at stage 2: the joystick tasks
ADAPT also has a joystick coordination task, in which you keep a ball centred on a plate, and a short flight test. On the easyJet MPL neither is part of selection. CAE runs them near the end of ATPL theory, before flight training starts, and a fail there leads to remedial training.
The other routes
Skyborne (FlightCrew Futures): a series of online psychometric, numeracy and aptitude assessments. Skyborne's own guidance names the Aon assessment tool, so the Aon (cut-e) Test Preparation course on this platform covers the module families in depth.
Direct entry: easyJet describes online tests of verbal, numerical and spatial reasoning plus a personality questionnaire. The airline names no vendor; the Aon (cut-e) course is the closest preparation.
How to prepare
On the practice page, Speed, Distance & Time and Math: Full cover the maths paper's arithmetic, and Physics Knowledge covers the physics paper, including beams with their own weight and resistors in series. Cube Folding, Odd One Out, Number Sequences and the Acoustic Memory Test train four of the cognitive paper's item types. No game here reproduces FAST: the Triple Multitasking Test trains a similar split between moving your aircraft, spotting and quick sums, and Instrument Comprehension trains the compass reading in its side questions. Practise without a calculator in 30-minute blocks, practise counting what you see and hear while you work, and vary your practice rather than replaying one scenario until you know it by heart. Take the Big Five Personality Test before the questionnaire to see your own profile first.