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Understanding Pilot Aptitude Tests

Understanding Pilot Aptitude Tests

What does each test actually measure? How does the very same skill show up in the cockpit? A guide to every intellectual and neuro-sensomotoric skill test an airline puts you through during a pilot selection process, and why a selection board cares.

26 lessons106 practice exercises

Course Lessons

Introduction

What a pilot aptitude battery is, and why it comes first.

Mental Math

Fast, calculator-free arithmetic — the numbers a pilot works in their head.

Numbers run through every phase of a flight, and an airline's first gate is nearly always numerical. This module covers the mental-math family — the timed, calculator-free arithmetic that every assessment provider tests in some form, from bare integers to fuel figures, unit conversions and applied speed–distance–time problems. The goal of practice is arithmetic so automatic that working a number costs you no attention at all.

Sequences

Spotting the hidden rule in a series and projecting it forward.

Inductive reasoning — spotting a pattern in limited data and projecting it forward — is the skill behind every trend a pilot catches early. This module trains it in its cleanest measurable form: number series governed by a hidden rule, and their letter-based cousins. If you can see the rule in four terms, you can see a fuel-burn trend four waypoints early.

Abstract Reasoning

Non-verbal logic: rules, patterns and operators in shapes and symbols.

These tests use shapes and symbols instead of words and numbers — deliberately, so that no vocabulary and no schooling can help you. That makes them among the purest measures of fluid intelligence: how you handle a problem you have never seen before. Airlines lean on them because training and line flying constantly produce exactly such problems.

The first lesson covers the inductive family — finding the rule that patterns, matrices and figure series share. The second covers the deductive family — applying explicit rules and operators precisely, at speed.

Verbal Reasoning & Language

Language-mediated reasoning — comprehension, relationships and strict logic in words.

Aviation runs on language: clearances, NOTAMs, procedures, checklists — all worded precisely, and all in English. This module covers the verbal family of tests, and the shared demand behind them: treating words as exact instruments, never approximations.

The lessons run from disciplined reading (verbal reasoning) through logic carried by words (analogies, syllogisms) to the depth of your vocabulary (word knowledge) and the working English the licence itself requires (aviation English).

Technical & Knowledge

How machines, circuits, instruments and the physics behind flight actually work.

An aircraft is a machine, and airlines prefer pilots who understand their machine over pilots who merely operate it. This module spans the technical-comprehension tests — mechanical linkages, electrical circuits, and reading the instrument panel itself — plus the knowledge tests some selections (notably DLR and ADAPT) add on top, because a cadet who arrives already knowing the physics absorbs ground school markedly faster.

Memory

Holding, pairing and updating information while everything else competes for it.

A cockpit constantly hands you information that must be held while you do something else: clearances, frequencies, restrictions, and the pairing of which instruction belongs to which aircraft. This module covers the two memory skills selection batteries isolate — binding two pieces of information together so they never cross-contaminate (associative memory), and continuously updating what you hold as new information overwrites old (working memory).

Multitasking & Planning

Juggling competing tasks and building plans that satisfy every constraint at once.

Executive capacity: what happens when tasks compete. The planning test asks you to build a schedule that satisfies every constraint at once — the same shape as every diversion decision you will ever make. The multitasking test deliberately overloads you to see whether you can time-share, prioritise and keep several balls in the air. Between them they measure the discipline of staying organised when the operation refuses to be.

Reaction & Attention

Reacting fast to the right signal — and staying alert when nothing happens for hours.

The neuro-sensomotoric battery starts here: how fast, and how reliably, your attention works. These are not knowledge tests — they measure the machinery itself.

Four lessons cover the family: reacting to the right signal quickly (reaction time), staying alert through hours in which nothing happens (sustained attention and vigilance), moving cleanly between tasks and suppressing the instinctive-but-wrong response (switching and inhibition), and the raw perceptual throughput underneath every instrument scan (perceptual and processing speed).

Coordination & Motor Control

Hands and feet flying the aircraft: smooth, precise, multi-axis control.

Stick-and-rudder aptitude, measured directly: live control tasks in which your hands and feet either hold the line or don't. One lesson covers three-axis coordination — the hand-eye-foot task that most resembles physically flying an aircraft. The other covers the tracking family: precision paths, disturbance rejection, pursuit, unstable systems and control lag. A game controller is strongly recommended throughout this module.

Spatial Orientation

The three-dimensional picture: attitude, position and direction, held in the mind's eye.

Flying is an inherently spatial job, and spatial ability is one of the oldest and strongest predictors in all of pilot selection. This module covers the mind's-eye skills: rotating three-dimensional shapes and reading off their views (spatial awareness and rotation), and holding direction — where everything is relative to your nose — while the nose keeps moving (sense of direction).

Practice Exercises

The real assessment exercises this course prepares you for.

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Math: Full

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

6 minIntellectual
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0.00275
0.00289
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0.0289

Math: Decimals

Solve decimal arithmetic problems — addition, subtraction, multiplication and division with decimal numbers.

6 minIntellectual
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Math: Fractions

Solve fraction arithmetic problems — addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of fractions.

6 minIntellectual
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Math: Integers

Solve integer arithmetic problems — addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.

6 minIntellectual
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Top xBottom +
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Math: Operators

Find the two operators that make the fraction equal the target value.

6 minIntellectual
22.12is7%of?
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723
232
No correct answer

Math: Percentages

Solve percentage problems — find the percentage or the whole number given the other two values.

6 minIntellectual
4 hours, 41 minutes, 46 seconds2 hours, 59 minutes, 59 seconds+
7 hours39 minutes45 seconds
7 hours37 minutes50 seconds
7 hours49 minutes55 seconds
7 hours41 minutes45 seconds

Math: Time

Add or subtract two times expressed in hours, minutes, and seconds.

6 minIntellectual
3 kilogram, 943 gram2 kilogram, 712 gram+
7 kilogram725 gram
6 kilogram830 gram
6 kilogram760 gram
6 kilogram655 gram

Math: Weight

Add or subtract two weights expressed in kilograms and grams.

6 minIntellectual
2×9+8=26
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Equation Completion

Fill each equation's gaps with digit tiles 1 to 9, each usable once, so the given result is correct. The faithful cut-e (Aon scales eql) digit entry format, plus our multiple choice practice variant.

5 minIntellectual
Revenue by quarter (£m)
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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
Ground speedeasy
An aircraft covers 360 nm in 2 h. What ground speed does that require?
A240 kt
B180 kt
C144 kt
D200 kt

Speed, Distance & Time

Solve speed–distance–time word problems in an aviation setting — ground speed, distance to run, ETA and fuel burn — applying distance = speed × time to find the missing variable, mentally and against the clock.

12 minIntellectual
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Audio Math Test

Mental arithmetic you hear instead of read: each question is narrated once in your headphones, and the answer clock only starts when the voice stops.

6 minIntellectual
−100
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[−198, −66]

ENAC Mental Calculation

Four series of ten boards, back to back, each on its own clock. You type the result of a chain of additions and subtractions, type the value of the last letter in a small system, choose the narrowest of 10 intervals that holds a result, then tick every one of 7 intervals that does. On the ENAC EPL form, every chain in the first series ends on a multiplication and each series gets 4 minutes. On the Air France Cadets form, the first series is sums only and each series gets 6 minutes.

24 minIntellectualPSY1
149
seats
70 s a problem

ENAC Mathématiques

Thirty word problems on percentages, speeds, work rates, shapes and clocks, with a pen and paper but no calculator. You type most answers as a number and pick a few from five. The exam format is 30 problems in 35 minutes.

35 minIntellectualPSY1
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8 × 6 = 480
8 × 8 = 64

ENAC Calculation Grids

A board of 9 complete calculations, three by three. Some of them are false. Click the false ones, then validate before the bar runs out. A board holds anywhere from none to 4 false ones. The exam format is 8 boards with 40 seconds each.

7 minIntellectualPSY0
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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
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Number Sequences: Easy

Spot the pattern and predict the next number in short numeric sequences — the foundation for harder sequence tests.

20 minIntellectual
121524304845
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Number Sequences: Medium

Step up from easy — interleaved sub-sequences, alternating operations, squaring and square roots mixed into harder numeric patterns.

20 minIntellectual
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7 3/4
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7 1/4
41

Number Sequences: Hard

The toughest sequence test — tribonacci, prime-index jumps, interleaved fractions and powers, and multi-operation chains designed to mirror the difficulty level of real pilot assessments.

20 minIntellectual
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F
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Letter Series

Spot the hidden rule in a row of letters and pick the next one — the letter analogue of number series, training serial induction on the alphabet.

13 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.

5 minIntellectual
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Figural Analogies

Work out how the first shape becomes the second, then apply the same transformation to the third shape and pick the figure that completes the analogy. Tests non-verbal, abstract inductive reasoning under time pressure.

8 minIntellectual
1
2
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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
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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
A
B
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.

8 minIntellectual
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ENAC Figure Matrices

A 3 × 3 matrix of figures with the bottom-right square missing, and 8 options to complete it. The rules run along the rows, down the columns and across the diagonals, and a board often has two or three at once. The exam format is 30 boards in 30 minutes, and you can move between boards and change your answers until you hand in.

30 minIntellectualPSY1
Law
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Anti-law
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ENAC Law and Anti-Law

Three numbers, words or figures obey a hidden law, and three don't. Under them are 8 propositions: tick every one that obeys the law. Numbers, words and figures are mixed through the run. The exam format is 35 boards in 30 minutes, and you're free to move between boards and change your ticks until you hand in.

30 minIntellectualPSY1
1Green
2Square
0No rule matches — None
1Rule 1
2Rule 2
0None

Rule Application

Hold a small rule-set in mind and apply it to a fast stream of coloured symbols — press the response each rule dictates before the window closes.

4 minIntellectual
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34 1 3 2
41 4 3 2

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.

6 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
Mango2.5 s
ApplePearGrape
RainFog
SofaDeskStoolBench

ENAC Word Boxes

Six empty boxes sit round the screen, and words appear one at a time in the middle. Each box takes one field of words, like fruit or weather, but nothing tells you which. Click the box each word belongs in. The first word of a field can go in any empty box, and a wrong box sends the word back for later. Each field's own name shows up after its four other words. The exam format is 5 boards of 30 words, with 2.5 seconds a word.

6 minIntellectualPSY0
A
B
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2 min a text

ENAC Lecture de Textes

10 short texts, 2 questions on each, 4 answers to choose from. Everything you need is in the text, so you answer from what it says, not from what you know. The exam format is 10 texts in 20 minutes.

21 minIntellectualPSY1
Fish
Water
Bird
…
Tree
Air
River
Sun

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
Which word is closest in meaning toConceal
A)Display
B)Hide
C)Announce
D)Repair

Word Knowledge

Pick the word closest in meaning to the one shown. Tests the breadth and precision of your vocabulary under time pressure.

10 minIntellectual
The cabin crew asked the passengers their seatbelts.
Ato fasten
Bfastened
Cfastening
Dfasten

Aviation English

Three modes: written multiple-choice English items across grammar, idioms, synonyms and sentence completion, with a Wizz Air TestAir360 grammar preset; an ATC listening mode where a transmission plays once and you answer on what you heard; and a read-then-answer mode where a short text disappears before its question appears.

10 minIntellectual

Technical Reasoning

Inspect a technical construction of gears, pulleys, racks and rods, and pick the option that allows (or disallows) the indicated movement.

10 minIntellectual
A 6 V battery drives a 1 Ω resistor and a 2 Ω resistor in series (see diagram). What current flows through the 2 Ω resistor?
A3 A
B9 A
C2 A
D6 A

Electrical Comprehension

Reason about simple electrical circuits from their diagrams — switches and bulbs, series versus parallel behaviour, Ohm's law and power, and everyday electrics and magnetism.

10 minIntellectual
1
2
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Instrument Comprehension

Read cockpit instruments and reconstruct the aircraft's situation: match an attitude indicator and heading compass to the right silhouette, or — in the cut-e-style RBI/GYRO format — add heading and relative bearing to find the NDB beacon's zone.

5 minIntellectual
On a balanced seesaw, a 40 N weight sits 1 m from the pivot. To balance it, where must a 20 N weight be placed on the other side?
A0.5 m from the pivot
B2 m from the pivot
C4 m from the pivot
D1 m from the pivot

Physics Knowledge

Answer high-school-level physics questions across mechanics and fluids, electricity and magnetism, optics, heat and energy — predicting how physical scenarios behave, not just recalling formulas.

10 minIntellectual
If the true track is 090°, magnetic variation is 10° West, and there is no wind, what is the magnetic heading?
A)080°
B)100°
C)090°
D)110°

Aviation Knowledge

Answer multiple-choice aviation-theory questions across principles of flight, aircraft systems, instruments, navigation, meteorology and air law. An ATPL-lite knowledge check under time pressure.

10 minIntellectual
8 s12 / 48

ENAC Aeronautical General Knowledge

Aviation knowledge questions, from how a wing lifts to the capital of the Comoros, each with four answers and one of them right. A click is your answer and the next question comes straight up. The exam format is 48 questions at 8 seconds each.

7 minIntellectualPSY0
Which number was paired with the cloud?
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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
0
6
0
Yes

ENAC M2-back numérique

Digits come up one at a time, a new one every 3 seconds. From the third one on, you say for each digit whether it's the same as the one 2 before it. The exam format is 62 digits, 60 of them with a question.

4 minIntellectualPSY0
Yes

ENAC M2-back couleurs

Coloured squares come up one at a time. From the third on, say whether each one is the same colour as the one two before it. The exam format is 42 colours, 40 answers, in 2:06.

3 minIntellectualPSY0
c
b
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C
Yes

ENAC Memory N-Back

Letters come up one at a time, and for each one you say whether it’s the same letter as the one three, four or five before it. Capitals and small letters count as the same. The exam format is two tests back to back: a 3-back then a 4-back for ENAC EPL, a 4-back then a 5-back for Air France Cadets. It hasn’t been set since 2020.

7 minIntellectualPSY1
same as the item 2 back?
Yes
No
2 back5 / 50

Visual N-Back

Shapes in colours go past one at a time. On every one, say whether it is the same shape AND the same colour as the one a few places back — and the lag you are matching against changes from block to block.

3 minIntellectual
Type the sequence — in order
Y
H
F
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⏱ 0:19
Submit (Enter)
Span 5

Acoustic Memory Test

Hear a spoken sequence once, hold it through a filled delay, and type it back — exactly in order.

6 minIntellectual
Memorize the data
Speed (S)143kt
Radio (R)127.65MHz
Altitude (A)4100ft
Heading (H)351°
8/107 s

Parameter Memory Test

Aviation parameters flash up on a dark display, then vanish. Reproduce the data row by row, from memory, before the clock runs out.

6 minIntellectual
Correct?
−
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yesno

Grid Challenge

A dot memory test in the format of gridChallenge, Aon's official name for its working memory module: dots flash one by one on a scattered field, quick yes or no puzzles interrupt between flashes, then you click the dots back in order.

9 minIntellectual
(9 × 8) − (8 × 3)48
5 s
R
RFGB

ENAC Memory Calculation

You get a calculation, then a letter, then another calculation and another letter, and so on. At the end of the board, you type the letters back in the order they came. The exam format is 20 boards, from 3 letters up to 9, with 5 seconds a calculation and 1 second a letter.

16 minIntellectualPSY1
C
65 + 10
30 + 10
35 + 40
✓Identical

ENAC Running Comparison

A stream of simple calculations, one at a time. For each one, tick whether its result is identical to or different from the one it's compared with: the result just before, the one two back, or a fixed value X, depending on the block. The exam format is 100 answers in four blocks of 25, about 12 minutes.

12 minIntellectualPSY1
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ENAC Reversed Series

Digits come up one at a time in the same spot, a second each. When they’ve gone, you type them back in reverse, the last one first. The sequences grow from 4 to 9 digits. The exam format is 12 sequences, about 3:30.

4 minIntellectualPSY1
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Planning Test

Build a weekly schedule that satisfies every constraint. Pick a scenario, fill the grid with role assignments, and meet every staffing rule before the timer runs out.

20 minIntellectual
Level 12

Motion Challenge

A ball maze planning test in the style of Aon's motionChallenge: slide the blocks clear and steer the orange ball into the black hole in as few moves as you can. Six minutes on the clock, as many puzzles as you can solve, one level up after every solve.

6 minIntellectual
4
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ENAC Marble Tubes

Two boards of three tubes hold the same numbered marbles. Count the fewest moves that turn the top board into the bottom one, then click that number. A move takes the top marble of a tube and puts it on top of another tube. The tubes hold 3, 2 and 3 marbles. The exam format is 10 boards with 20 seconds each.

7 minIntellectualPSY0

ENAC Slid Shapes

Two 6 × 6 grids and a tray of pieces. Slide pieces onto your grid until it matches the figure beside it. A light cell of a piece flips the square under it and a dark cell changes nothing, so two light cells on one square cancel out. The exam format is 5 boards with 3 minutes each.

17 minIntellectualPSY0
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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
3+4+6-2 = 11CorrectWrong
1X2X

Triple Multitasking Test

Verify chained equations, spot duplicate icons, and keep your aircraft in the gap as hazard lines fall. Three tasks, one screen, one five-minute clock.

5 minIntellectual
123
20 - ? = 16
3124

M-TASK Multitasking Test

Three tasks at once in the Schuhfried M-TASK format: work a symbol queue in its stated priority order, fill arithmetic blanks against a time bar, and reorder symbol rows to match a target. One clock, a neglected panel drags the whole score, and every run records a replay. Or go endless in Challenge, where the first mistake ends the run.

10 minIntellectual
AUTOPILOT SETTINGS
Altitude30000
Heading000
Speed000
NEW INFORMATION
ALT34000HDG125SPD310
Alert — press7

Task Manager

Enter new autopilot values quickly and accurately while cancelling red alerts within three seconds — the COMPASS-style two-task screen, on one shared keyboard.

6 minIntellectual
1/2·3/4

ENAC Airspace Conflict Watch

Aircraft cross two bands of six airways, blue ones from right to left and violet ones from left to right. Each band has a grey zone that can never hold more than 4 aircraft, or more than 2 blue ones. You close airways to keep both zones within their limits, and you divert as few aircraft as you can. The exam format is 10 boards in a row.

6 minIntellectualPSY0
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Complex Choice Reaction Test

Compare a target figure against four reference shapes and decide within 2.5 seconds whether it matches one of them.

5 minNeuro-Sensomotoric
C·1700 ms
Z

Determination Test (DT)

Test your reaction speed with colors, directional arrows, and sounds across adaptive difficulty levels.

10 minNeuro-SensomotoricGamepad
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
−80 ms·48 px

Time Anticipation Test

A green ball flies at constant speed, then vanishes before a marked line. Press at the exact moment it would cross — then point to where. Timing error in milliseconds, position error in pixels, in the style of Schuhfried's ZBA.

4 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
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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
Your targets
4679
listening…
Respond (Space)
4

Auditory Detection Test

Monitor a spoken number stream in your headphones and respond only to the targets — or to the hidden even/odd runs.

3 minNeuro-Sensomotoric
0.64s
+2

Signal Detection Test

Watch a dark field of about 25 small white dots that appear and disappear at random, and press the moment four of them form a square. A practice version of SIGNAL, Schuhfried's signal-detection vigilance test in the Vienna Test System, with the S1 white-on-black and S2 black-on-white forms and a sudden-death Challenge mode.

10 minNeuro-Sensomotoric
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8
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11

Monitoring Ability Test

Count the blue dots drifting inside a circle and pick the exact number from five buttons before the clock runs out. A faithful practice version of scales cmo, cut-e's name for this test, also called the CUT-E Monitoring Ability Test.

3 minNeuro-Sensomotoric
NW
NE
SW
SE
Present in NWPresent in NE

ENAC Sustained Attention

You see four characters in four places: NW, NE, SW and SE. Then each board shows four grids of characters, one in each place, and for each place you say whether its own character is in its grid. The grids are built from those same four characters, so only the one that belongs to the place counts. The exam format is 3 series of 5 boards, with 3 minutes for each series.

11 minNeuro-SensomotoricPSY1
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5050
50500

ENAC Dials Reading

Eight car and aircraft dials, with a table underneath that has a column for each of their ten readings. Tick the value each dial shows. You get to study the dials before the clock starts, and they stay put for the whole run. The exam format is 10 boards in 6 minutes.

11 minNeuro-SensomotoricPSY1
BLUE
1red
2green
3blue
4yellow
2.5 s

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
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
8
BLUEGREENREDPURPLEORANGERED

ENAC Symbol Counting

Two counting exercises, and every board gets interrupted twice by a grid of colour words. In Attention 2 you count one symbol among two others that look a lot like it. In Attention 3 you count the x signs, minus after a / and plus again after a +. Each grid stays open for 12 seconds. In Attention 2 you tick the words written in their own colour, and in Attention 3 the ones that aren't. The exam format is 10 boards of each, 90 seconds a board.

25 minNeuro-SensomotoricPSY1

ENAC Odd and Even

A board of numbered circles, scattered over the whole screen. Starting from START, click every one, odd and even in turn, with the odd numbers in ascending order and the even ones in ascending order, each on its own. A wrong click sends you back to START. The exam format is 5 boards with 90 seconds each.

8 minNeuro-SensomotoricPSY0
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ENAC Shapes and Colours

One shape at a time, filled or empty, in one of two colours. Two rules tell you whether to press X or N, and the colour says which rule to use. Each shape shows for half a second, and the exam format is 32 shapes, one every 3.2 seconds.

4 minNeuro-SensomotoricPSY0
Code
TV 5183 KM
vs
TV 5783 KM
Same
Different

Perceptual Speed

Compare two strings at a glance and decide — same or different? Rapid-fire detail checking against the clock.

6 minNeuro-Sensomotoric
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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
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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
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ENAC Mosaic Count

A black figure made of 16 tiles in a 4 × 4 square, with no lines between them. Count how many there are of each of the ten kinds and type each count under its tile, with a 0 for every kind that isn’t there. The exam format is 24 boards in 10 minutes.

11 minNeuro-SensomotoricPSY1
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
Round 5 of 7
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Balance Beam Test

A ball on a seesaw and two keys to tilt it. Keep the ball in the zone as the zone moves further out, then while you answer a colour lamp, then with the two keys swapped. Built to the format of the hand-eye coordination test in TestAir360, stage 1 of Wizz Air's cadet selection.

15 minNeuro-Sensomotoric
2/5

Path Following Test

A hand-eye coordination test of fine-motor precision, built on the continuous path-tracking format used across pilot aptitude screening. Steer a dot along a winding track from the green start to the red end without drifting off the path. The same route repeats each round so your improvement is measurable.

4 minNeuro-SensomotoricGamepad
Medium3:30

Compensatory Tracking Test

An invisible disturbance drags your cursor off centre — feed in smooth corrections and hold it on the crosshair.

4 minNeuro-SensomotoricGamepad
Stick (2-axis)Medium3:00

Pursuit Tracking Test

Keep your gunsight locked onto an aircraft that keeps changing direction — and keeps getting faster.

3 minNeuro-SensomotoricGamepad
Medium3:30

Drift Control Test

Keep an unstable ball centred on a plate while it constantly tries to escape — and recoveries are measured to the millisecond.

4 minNeuro-SensomotoricGamepad
Boxes (2-axis)Medium3:30

Gate Flying Test

Fly through a stream of approaching gates at a pace you can't slow down — the aircraft answers late, so think ahead.

4 minNeuro-SensomotoricGamepad
Level 13:00

Tunnel Flying Test

Fly a tunnel of rotating ring obstacles — thread each moving gap, and every three clean passes the tunnel gets faster.

3 minNeuro-Sensomotoric
ASI161 ktbug 180 kt
DI103°bug 105°
ALT6,131 ftbug 6,100 ft
THR−+

Instrument Coordination Test

Hold heading, altitude and speed on their bugs with stick and thrust — while a voice stream demands answers of its own.

6 minNeuro-SensomotoricGamepad
Stage 3/4Both at once1:30

Dual-Task Tracking Test

Track one target with your hands and another with your feet — then keep both alive while answering an audio stream.

7 minNeuro-SensomotoricGamepad
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ENAC Three-Task Keyboard Multitask

Three tasks at once, all on the keyboard. A circle glides around a field, and you hold the arrow key of the way it's going. A symbol in the circle and another in a box change every few seconds: press SPACE when the two are identical. A strip of equations slides along with the leftmost one in a frame, and you press F while that one is false. The run lasts 10 minutes without a break.

10 minNeuro-SensomotoricPSY0
Total66 %
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ENAC Psychomoteur

Four tasks at once, with two joysticks and the keyboard. You hold a cross inside a small circle that moves around a large one, keep four gauges centred, mark the named letters in each row of nine, and type the result of each calculation. Each task's weight is on screen and changes from phase to phase. And while any task is under its line, the total drops to 0.

32 minNeuro-SensomotoricPSY1Gamepad

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
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Mental Rotation

See a 3-D block figure, then pick the option that is the same object rotated — not a mirror image or a different shape. The classic Shepard–Metzler / Vandenberg–Kuse task.

6 minNeuro-Sensomotoric
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Cube Folding

Mentally fold a flat net of six symboled faces into a cube, then pick which of four folded cubes it makes. Tests spatial visualisation and 2D-to-3D reasoning under time pressure.

8 minNeuro-Sensomotoric

ENAC Tetralogy of Angles

Read which way a small clock runs, then measure the turn from one line to another in that direction. In the ENAC EPL form you type 40 angles in four parts of 10: over a picture, between an arrow and a point, around a cross, and as an object to straighten. In the Air France Cadets form you get a figure and 8 clocks, each printing a value, and you tick every clock that matches the angle.

26 minNeuro-SensomotoricPSY1
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ENAC Point Tracking

Two figures side by side. The round one holds a few circles and four points lettered A to D. The square one is the same figure, turned in the plane and moved, with only one of the four points left and sometimes a circle or two added. You name the point that was kept. The exam format is 32 boards in 6:30 on one clock.

7 minNeuro-SensomotoricPSY1

ENAC Objects Tracking

Two pictures, one above the other. In the lower one, an object is circled and five more carry the letters A to E. The upper one holds the same objects moved over together, among plenty of others. Tick the letters still at the same distance and direction from the circled object, and still exactly the same. The exam format is 30 boards in 12 minutes.

13 minNeuro-SensomotoricPSY1

ENAC Patrons de Dés

A die with a letter or a rune on each face, two or three views of it, and its net laid flat with the cells numbered. Type under each symbol the number of the cell it goes in. The symbols are already turned the way they lie on the net, so the cell you pick decides how each one sits on the die. The exam format is two parts of 10 boards, 20:00 a part for Air France Cadets and 17:00 for the ENAC EPL.

40 minNeuro-SensomotoricPSY1
90°

ENAC 3 Dimension Rotations

A chair starts in a slanted position, then 4 turns follow, one at a time. Each turn is a ball with an arrow and an angle, always a multiple of 45°, and you only see the chair itself beside the first one. Then you picture the chair from a named side, say from the right or from above, and pick it out of 5 pictures. The exam format is 40 boards, 5 seconds a turn and 15 seconds to answer.

24 minNeuro-SensomotoricPSY1

ENAC Cube Nets 2D/3D

Two nets of the same die side by side: the original, complete, and yours, unfolded from the die turned another way, with a few faces in place. Drag the other faces onto yours so that it folds back into the same die, and turn the letters the right way round. The exam format is 5 boards, 90 seconds each.

8 minNeuro-SensomotoricPSY0
HDG 120
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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

Sense of Direction

One arrow shows your vehicle's new heading; you name the driving maneuver that got you there — straight, left, right or U-turn — on a circular four-wedge control. A practice version of scales nav, Aon's (cut-e's) Sense of Direction test: one minute, arrows chaining item to item, your heading held only in memory, plus a sudden-death Challenge mode.

2 minNeuro-Sensomotoric

ENAC Viewpoint Finder

A photograph shows a few simple solids standing in the sand. Beside it, the same scene is drawn from directly above, with eight camera positions round it, and every camera looks at the centre. Click the position the photograph was taken from. The shadows, the left-to-right order of the objects, and the objects you can't see all tell you where you're standing. The exam format is 10 boards with 20 seconds each.

5 minNeuro-SensomotoricPSY0