Training Exercises
Browse our collection of pilot assessment training exercises.
113 exercises in 12 groups
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Compensatory Tracking Test
An invisible disturbance drags your cursor off centre — feed in smooth corrections and hold it on the crosshair.
Pursuit Tracking Test
Keep your gunsight locked onto an aircraft that keeps changing direction — and keeps getting faster.
Drift Control Test
Keep an unstable ball centred on a plate while it constantly tries to escape — and recoveries are measured to the millisecond.
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.
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.
Tunnel Flying Test
Fly a tunnel of rotating ring obstacles — thread each moving gap, and every three clean passes the tunnel gets faster.
Instrument Coordination Test
Hold heading, altitude and speed on their bugs with stick and thrust — while a voice stream demands answers of its own.
Dual-Task Tracking Test
Track one target with your hands and another with your feet — then keep both alive while answering an audio stream.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Associative Memory
Memorise a set of symbol–number pairs, then after a short delay recall which number went with each symbol.
Acoustic Memory Test
Hear a spoken sequence once, hold it through a filled delay, and type it back — exactly in order.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Math: Full
A mixed practice test combining all math categories — integers, decimals, fractions, time, weight, operators, and percentages — with a per-question timer.
Math: Decimals
Solve decimal arithmetic problems — addition, subtraction, multiplication and division with decimal numbers.
Math: Fractions
Solve fraction arithmetic problems — addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of fractions.
Math: Integers
Solve integer arithmetic problems — addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
Math: Operators
Find the two operators that make the fraction equal the target value.
Math: Percentages
Solve percentage problems — find the percentage or the whole number given the other two values.
Math: Time
Add or subtract two times expressed in hours, minutes, and seconds.
Math: Weight
Add or subtract two weights expressed in kilograms and grams.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Complex Choice Reaction Test
Compare a target figure against four reference shapes and decide within 2.5 seconds whether it matches one of them.
Vigilance Test (VIGIL)
Test your attention and reaction speed. Detect when the moving circle skips a position.
Determination Test (DT)
Test your reaction speed with colors, directional arrows, and sounds across adaptive difficulty levels.
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.
Perceptual Speed
Compare two strings at a glance and decide — same or different? Rapid-fire detail checking against the clock.
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.
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.
Visual Scanning
Sweep a cluttered field and connect the numbers in order — 1, 2, 3 … — as fast as you can find them.
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.
Attention Switching
Connect scattered numbers and letters in alternating order — 1, A, 2, B, 3, C … — switching mental tracks on every single step.
Auditory Detection Test
Monitor a spoken number stream in your headphones and respond only to the targets — or to the hidden even/odd runs.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Number Sequences: Easy
Spot the pattern and predict the next number in short numeric sequences — the foundation for harder sequence tests.
Number Sequences: Medium
Step up from easy — interleaved sub-sequences, alternating operations, squaring and square roots mixed into harder numeric patterns.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Technical Reasoning
Inspect a technical construction of gears, pulleys, racks and rods, and pick the option that allows (or disallows) the indicated movement.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Syllogisms
Read three statements and pick the conclusion that logically follows. Tests your deductive reasoning under time pressure.
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.
Word Knowledge
Pick the word closest in meaning to the one shown. Tests the breadth and precision of your vocabulary under time pressure.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Hazardous Attitudes
Learn and reflect on the FAA's Five Hazardous Attitudes from aeronautical decision-making training. Rate 25 statements for a per-attitude self-profile, or drill short scenarios: name the attitude a pilot's response shows, then pick its prescribed antidote.
Safety Locus of Control
A self-insight questionnaire based on aviation-safety locus of control research. Rate 24 statements about why flights end safely — pilot skill and preparation versus luck, weather, and the system — and see your Internality and Externality profile with a full per-item breakdown.
CRM Scenarios
Work through evolving flight-deck situations in two or three steps. At each step you choose how to respond as a crewmember, then see how that response would land with the crew and which CRM principle is in play — authority gradient, closed-loop communication, PACE advocacy, shared mental model, workload management.
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.
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.
Biographical Inventory
Meet the biodata questionnaire format used in pilot selection — structured multiple-choice questions about your education, achievements, teams, technical interest, pressure history and work habits. No score, no tricks: a familiarization and interview-preparation tool that turns your own life history into ready interview material.