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Wizz Air Cadet Selection

Stage 1: Coordination, English, Maths and Physics

Lesson 5 of 8•3 min read•7 exercises

The rest of the sitting tests your hands and your school knowledge: a balancing task with a second task layered on top, then English, maths and physics.

Hand-eye coordination

A ball sits on a seesaw, and you keep it inside a coloured zone by tilting the beam with two keys. There are three phases of seven rounds, each about five minutes:

  • first, the zone moves further from the centre round by round;

  • second, colours appear and you press the key for each one while still balancing, with three or four colours in play;

  • third, the two tilt keys are swapped.

  • Correct with short, repeated taps rather than holding a key down.

  • When the keys swap, cross your hands so each hand still pushes its own side.

  • Do not launch a new ball just as a level changes, or you can end up with two on the beam.

  • A bad phase is not the end of the test. Keep going.

English

Two grammar sets come first: 20 multiple-choice questions in 4 minutes each, which is 12 seconds a question, with plenty of past tenses. Then five short texts. You read each for 90 seconds, the text disappears, and you have 30 seconds for one question on it, so read for the facts the first time.

Maths

Ten questions in 12 minutes, some multiple choice and some typed, with pen and paper but no calculator. Wizz's own list is fractions, equations, functions and trigonometry. Expect basic trigonometry, rearranging a formula to isolate one term, fractions, unit conversions, speed, distance and time, and short logic questions where the answer is in the wording, such as ordering people by height from a set of statements.

Physics

Ten questions in 12 minutes, multiple choice or typed, with a calculator, pen and paper. The level is early secondary school. Wizz's list runs from kinematics, forces and circular motion through work, energy, statics, heat, waves and sound to electric fields and circuits. Expect definitions (which quantity is a scalar, the unit of pressure), kinetic and potential energy, and electricity up to P = VI and V = IR. The balance between mechanics and electricity varies from one sitting to the next.

Wizz's FAQ links an algebra summary and a set of physics slides; work through both.

How to prepare

Balance Beam Test is built to the seesaw: two keys, three phases of seven rounds, a colour task in the second and swapped keys in the third, with W and P by default and the keys changeable in its settings. Aviation English has both TestAir360 English parts, the two grammar sets of 20 in 4 minutes each and a read-then-answer mode where the text disappears after 90 seconds. ENAC Mathématiques is the closest match to the maths paper, typed answers in English against one clock; Speed, Distance & Time and Math: Fractions drill two of its families. Physics Knowledge has a TestAir360 paper, 10 questions under one 12-minute clock with some answers typed, and Electrical Comprehension adds the circuits.

What the test looks like

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

Balance Beam Test

Hold the zone

The zone has moved out to the right. The ball sits left of the middle and the beam leans a little left, so the ball is creeping further away. What do you press?

Wleft end downPright end downSpacenew ball

Colours while you balance

The ball is where it should be and the lamp has just lit. What do you press?

Wleft end downPright end downSpacenew ballRRedYYellowGGreenBBlue

Swapped keys

The same ball and the same zone as the first example, in the swapped phase. Which key sends the ball right now?

Wright end downPleft end downSpacenew ball

Drops, empty beams and second balls

A ball off either end costs 2 points, and the beam then stays empty until you press Space, which is time out of the zone as well. Every round starts with a fresh ball in the middle, so a Space press that lands just as a round begins puts a second ball on the beam. It earns nothing and both have to be inside the zone for the time to count. Each phase scores its time in the zone less its drops, the colour phase averages that with the colour answers, and the run is the mean of its phases. The target of 60 is ours.

Aviation English
ENAC Mathématiques
Speed, Distance & Time
Math: Fractions
Physics Knowledge
Electrical Comprehension

Practice the relevant tests

Assessment-grade exercises to practice the relevant competences.

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
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
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
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
914-37
314
17
27
114

Math: Fractions

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

6 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
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

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