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The Final Assessment Centre (with KLM)

Lesson 5 of 5•2 min read•10 exercises

The final stage takes place at the same assessment centre that KLM pilots attend: the Aviation Medical Center (AMC) in Amsterdam. The AMC runs its assessments on the Schuhfried / Vienna Test System — the standardised battery of computer-based aptitude tests used across much of European aviation selection — so the formats here overlap heavily with the KLM process. This platform's exercises are built around exactly these Schuhfried-style formats, and the KLM Flight Academy course describes the AMC's phases in detail; it is the best companion to this lesson.

What to expect

The AMC battery is known for standardised, strictly timed subtests: reasoning and mental arithmetic, memory, spatial orientation and instrument interpretation, sustained-attention monitoring, and — in the KLM version of the process — sensorimotor coordination tasks flown with joysticks. Because the centre is shared, TUI candidates are meeting the same test system, though the exact selection of subtests a given airline commissions can differ.

To confirm: it is not established from public sources whether TUI's final AMC stage includes both intellectual and senso-motoric (psychomotor) testing, or intellectual testing only. KLM's own process at this centre includes a dedicated sensorimotor phase (the SMO), but whether TUI candidates sit the psychomotor tests there — or only the cognitive and personality tests, having already flown a real 737 MAX simulator earlier in the funnel — should be verified before you rely on it. Prepare for both to be safe.

How to prepare

Because this stage uses the Schuhfried system, the widest-coverage preparation is to train the matching exercises on this platform: Spatial Awareness and Mental Math for the intellectual side, the Vigilance Test for the long monitoring tasks, and the Multitasking Test and Hand-Eye-Foot Coordination Test for the sensorimotor and workload side — plus the Schuhfried-style set built for exactly this kind of battery: the Stroop Test for response inhibition, Visual Scanning for search speed, Processing Speed for digit-symbol coding, Attention Switching for the flexibility tasks, and Simple Reaction Time for the reaction baseline. Work through the KLM Flight Academy course for a phase-by-phase breakdown of the same centre, and remember the theme that runs through the whole TUI funnel: present the same person — same motivation, same profile, same story — at every stage, because a final centre with a full report in front of it is looking above all for consistency.

What the test looks like

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

Spatial Awareness

Example: which 2D view matches the model?

Each item shows a 3D model built from unit cubes with a blue arrow marking the side to look from. Below it are four flat views — pick the one you would actually see along the arrow. The correct view is highlighted here; in the test you choose it. The model comes in two styles, shown in the tabs below.

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Explanation

The correct view is the true silhouette of the model seen straight along the blue arrow. Each wrong view is the same model with one or two extra cubes hidden inside it — cubes that don’t change the shape from most angles but do change this outline. So don’t just count cubes: trace the edge of the shape from the arrow’s direction and match it view by view. Solid Blocks hide their interior, so you read the visible faces; Translucent Cubes let you see through to count every stacked cell.

Vigilance Test (VIGIL)

Multitasking Test

Hand-Eye-Foot Coordination Test

Math: Full

Stroop Test

Visual Scanning

Processing Speed

Attention Switching

Simple Reaction Time

Practice the relevant tests

Assessment-grade exercises to practice the relevant competences.

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

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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

4:00

Hand-Eye-Foot Coordination Test

A real-time three-axis coordination test. Keep the aircraft centred on the target runway while periodic disturbances push it left/right, forward/backward, and roll it from side to side. Best practised with a game controller or rudder pedals mapped to the three control axes.

6 minNeuro-SensomotoricGamepad

Math: Full

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

Stroop Test

Name the ink colour, not the word. A colour word streams on screen in a possibly-mismatched ink — select the ink colour and resist reading the word.

5 minNeuro-Sensomotoric

Find4of 25

Visual Scanning

Sweep a cluttered field and connect the numbers in order — 1, 2, 3 … — as fast as you can find them.

4 minNeuro-Sensomotoric

Processing Speed

Learn a digit–symbol key, then match a rapid stream of symbols to their digits as fast as you can. Pure coding speed against the clock.

5 minNeuro-Sensomotoric

Find2→B→34 of 25

Attention Switching

Connect scattered numbers and letters in alternating order — 1, A, 2, B, 3, C … — switching mental tracks on every single step.

4 minNeuro-Sensomotoric

PRESS NOW

12 / 30

Simple Reaction Time

A single signal appears after an unpredictable delay — respond as fast as you can. Measures your mean reaction time, your fastest response, and how consistent you are. Includes a Pair Match mode in the format of cut-e's Reaction Speed test: press only when two symbols match.

4 minNeuro-Sensomotoric

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