Ryanair

The Aon Online Assessment

Lesson 2 of 4•2 min read•20 exercises

Ryanair's first scored gate is an online assessment delivered through Aon (the assessment company behind the widely used cut-e tests). It is short, sharply timed and unforgiving if you have never seen the formats before — which is exactly why familiarity is the biggest score lever available to you.

Typical modules

Numerical and verbal reasoning: quick decisions from small tables, charts and short texts.
Spatial orientation: headings, relative positions and instrument-style displays.
Memory and concentration: short-term recall and sustained monitoring tasks.
Multitasking: combined tasks measuring how your accuracy survives divided attention.
Personality and situational judgement: questionnaires probing how you operate in a crew and follow procedures.

How to prepare

Aon-style modules are extremely trainable: each has a fixed format and a best-known strategy, so rehearse until reading the instructions costs you zero seconds. Calibrate speed against accuracy — most modules punish wild guessing — and answer the personality sections honestly and consistently. On the practice page, Mental Math, Sequences, Spatial Awareness, the Vigilance Test, the Multitasking Test and the reasoning trainers (Non-Verbal Reasoning, Analogies, Syllogisms) cover the same task families, and the cut-e replicas train the exact formats: Verbal Reasoning and Data Interpretation for the verbal and numerical modules, Odd One Out, Matrix Transformations, Grid Classification and Switch Challenge for the logic formats, Spatial Orientation for the heading-and-bearing items, Sense of Direction for the scales nav maneuver stream, and Associative Memory and the Instrument Monitoring Test for the memory and monitoring tasks. Grid Challenge and Motion Challenge cover the smartPredict pair under their official Aon names — the dot-memory span under interference and the fewest-moves ball maze. The Big Five test, the Forced-Choice Personality Questionnaire and the Situational Judgement Test — including its chat presentation mirroring Aon's chatAssess — prepare the personality layer; steady daily practice in the weeks before your test window is the preparation that shows up in the score.

What the test looks like

A worked example from each exercise in this lesson, exactly as the test presents it.

Math: Full

Example: a question from the mix

The Full test draws from all seven math categories — integers, decimals, fractions, time, weight, operators and percentages — one question at a time. Here is a representative decimal item; time and weight questions appear in their own stacked layout.

13.6+2.75

A)16.35

B)15.95

C)16.75

D)17.85

Explanation

Line up the decimal points before adding: 13.60 + 2.75 = 16.35. The wrong options are small offsets of the right answer — four tenths light, four tenths heavy, a point and a half over — so estimating “about sixteen” is not enough; the hundredths have to be right. Because the categories are shuffled, read each question on its own terms before reaching for a method.

Number Sequences: Full Test

Spatial Awareness

Vigilance Test (VIGIL)

Multitasking Test

Non-Verbal Reasoning

Analogies

Syllogisms

Verbal Reasoning

Data Interpretation

Odd One Out

Matrix Transformations

Grid Classification

Switch Challenge

Spatial Orientation

Associative Memory

Instrument Monitoring Test

Big Five Personality Test

Forced-Choice Personality Questionnaire

Situational Judgement Test

Practice the relevant tests

Assessment-grade exercises to practice the relevant competences.

Math: Full

A mixed practice test combining all math categories — integers, decimals, fractions, time, weight, operators, and percentages — with a per-question timer.

Number Sequences: Full Test

The full progress test for number sequences — a mixed drill combining 30% easy, 40% medium and 30% hard sequence types to mirror the difficulty level of real pilot assessments.

13 minIntellectual

Spatial Awareness

Visualise a 3D shape from a fixed viewpoint and pick the matching 2D view. Tests mental rotation and spatial perception under time pressure.

5 minNeuro-Sensomotoric

Space

2.5 s

Vigilance Test (VIGIL)

Test your attention and reaction speed. Detect when the moving circle skips a position.

10 minNeuro-Sensomotoric

2:14

PilotVeterinarianTeacher

Multitasking Test

Two tasks at once: scan number grids for duplicate pairs while answering spoken questions from your phonebook, agenda, mental math and word categories — some of which must be answered at an exact moment on the clock.

6 minIntellectual

Non-Verbal Reasoning

Spot the rule in a set of abstract figures — pick the odd one out, the option that completes the pattern, or the true rotation of a figure. Tests non-verbal, fluid reasoning under time pressure.

Analogies

Identify the missing term that completes the analogy. Choose the Single Word or Word Combination version. Tests your verbal reasoning and ability to spot relationships between concepts under time pressure.

10 minIntellectual

Statement 1:All apples are fruitStatement 2:No fruit is savoryStatement 3:Some apples are red

All red foods are fruit

No apple is savory

Some fruits are not sweet

No logical answer can be determined from the statements

Syllogisms

Read three statements and pick the conclusion that logically follows. Tests your deductive reasoning under time pressure.

10 minIntellectual

The Riverside Transport Museum charges 12 pounds for an adult ticket and 6 pounds for a child, while children under five enter free. The museum is open Wednesday to Sunday and closed on Mondays and Tuesdays. Photography is permitted throughout the galleries.

The museum has a café for visitors.

1True

2False

3Cannot Say

Verbal Reasoning

Read a short passage, then judge statements as True, False or Cannot Say — reasoning strictly from the text. Tests critical reading and verbal deduction under time pressure.

10 minIntellectual

Revenue by quarter (£m)

Q1Q2Q3Q4

Q3's revenue was more than twice Q4's.

True

False

Cannot Say

Data Interpretation

Read data from a chart or table — bar, line, pie or table — and answer a numerical question or judge a statement True, False or Cannot Say, one item at a time against the clock. Play with a single chart per question, or the cut-e-realistic tabbed workbook where finding the right dataset is part of the task.

8 minIntellectual

Odd One Out

Nine abstract objects share a hidden rule — spot the one that breaks it, fast. Replicates the cut-e (Aon) scales ix inductive reasoning test.

5 minIntellectual

Matrix Transformations

Discover the hidden rule linking two example symbol grids, then mark exactly the two of four candidates that follow it — the real cut-e (Aon) scales clx screen, in its official 6-minute length. A classic pair-transformation mode remains as the practice variant.

6 minIntellectual

AClass A

BClass B

Grid Classification

Six example tables, two hidden classes — deduce the rule that separates them and assign new tables to the right class. Adapted from the cut-e (Aon) scales cls format, including an Assessment Format mode that mirrors the real screen: four unmarked tables per item, 12 items in 12 minutes.

Switch Challenge

Deduce which numbered operator — a digit code that reorders a row of symbols — turns the top row into the bottom row. Replicates the cut-e (Aon) switchChallenge from the smartPredict battery.

Spatial Orientation

Read your compass heading and a beacon's bearing, then judge where the beacon lies relative to your aircraft. Tests spatial orientation and sense of direction under time pressure.

5 minNeuro-Sensomotoric

Which number was paired with the cloud?

142

217

363

428

4 pairs

Associative Memory

Memorise a set of symbol–number pairs, then after a short delay recall which number went with each symbol.

4 minIntellectual

MASTER CAUTIONL

Medium4:00

Instrument Monitoring Test

Watch a bank of cockpit gauges and catch the moment any needle drifts out of its green band — before the response window closes.

4 minNeuro-Sensomotoric

1 / 120

1.Worry about things

Very Inaccurate

Moderately Inaccurate

Neither Accurate Nor Inaccurate

Moderately Accurate

Very Accurate

2.Make friends easily

Very Inaccurate

Moderately Inaccurate

Neither Accurate Nor Inaccurate

Moderately Accurate

Very Accurate

Big Five Personality Test

A scientifically grounded personality inventory based on the IPIP-NEO-120. Rate 120 statements to map your profile across the five major personality domains — Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism — each broken down into six facets.

10 minPsychological

3 / 18

I express complex ideas in a way anyone can follow.MostLeast

I actively seek feedback on how I can improve.MostLeast

I notice small errors that others tend to overlook.MostLeast

Forced-Choice Personality Questionnaire

Practice the forced-choice personality format used in airline selection (Aon/cut-e shapes, SHL OPQ32r). Each block shows three equally positive statements — pick the one most like you and the one least like you, then see the relative trade-off profile your choices produce.

8 minPsychological

Wrong altitude setYou are the First Officer. You notice the Captain has set an altitude in the FCU that is 2,000 ft above the cleared level…

AReset the altitude to the cleared level yourself…

BSay, "Confirm cleared altitude was 8,000?…Most effective

CSay, "I think that altitude might be wrong," and wait…

DWait to see if ATC catches the level bust…Least effective

Situational Judgement Test

Read realistic cockpit and crew-room scenarios and judge how a professional flight crew would respond. A practice and reflection tool: after you commit, you compare your judgement with an expert reference and read the reasoning behind it. Play the classic format, or a chat presentation modelled on Aon's chatAssess.

12 minPsychological

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