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.
English proficiency measures how well you handle the structure and vocabulary of English: the grammar, idiomatic phrasing, word meaning and in-context word choice that underpin clear communication. In aviation it matters because a common working language is a safety requirement. ICAO rates operational English on a 1 to 6 scale and sets Level 4 as the minimum to exercise licence privileges, and both written screening and listening comprehension are used as proxies for the descriptors of that scale. This exercise now covers both presentations. The written mode reproduces the timed multiple-choice item types of the DLR English test and comparable batteries: grammar, idioms, synonyms and cloze/sentence completion. The ATC listening mode matches the presentation of the COMPASS Aviation-English optional module, which is built on listening comprehension of ATC sound messages in a 10-question, 5-minute format, and completes the listening half of the DLR English test, which includes listening comprehension alongside the written items. Wizz Air's TestAir360 aptitude test has an English module in two parts, and both are here: the TestAir360 preset of the written mode gives you its two grammar sets of 20 questions in 4 minutes each, and the read-then-answer mode gives you its texts, each read once for 90 seconds and answered from memory once it is gone. The grammar sets reward instant recognition of verb forms, so drill the past tenses until the right form jumps out; the texts reward reading for meaning, what happened, why and how it ended, because the question never lets you look back. In the listening mode every transmission is an original, fictional clearance composed from public ICAO phraseology conventions, spoken once; the question appears only after the audio ends. It is a familiarisation and practice tool, not a validated language test: target scores are our practice anchors, not any airline's passing scores or an ICAO rating.
Tested in assessments at Lufthansa Group.
Could show up in DLR, COMPASS and TestAir360-based selections.
Airline mappings are based on public information and may change.
Read the sentence and choose the option that fits the blank most naturally — the one that matches standard English usage, not just the general meaning. Exactly one option is correct; the others are deliberate near-misses. The correct answer is highlighted below.
The sentence should read “…stay clear of the weather.”
“Stay clear of” is the fixed phrase meaning to keep a safe distance from something — standard aviation usage. “Free of” means without a burden (e.g. “free of charge”), so it reads oddly here. “Away” is close in meaning but takes a different preposition — you stay away from, not away of. “Distant” is an adjective that does not combine with “of” at all.
In the ATC listening mode a fictional radio transmission is spoken once, ICAO style: digits like 3, 5 and 9 are pronounced “tree”, “fife” and “niner”, and spelled items use the phonetic alphabet. The question and its four options appear only after the audio ends. Here is the spoken text of one transmission (in the exercise you only hear it):
“Skyhaven tree four one, descend to altitude four tousand feet, QNH one zero two one.”
Transcript: Skyhaven 341, descend to altitude 4,000 feet, QNH 1021.
Which QNH were you given?
The controller said “QNH one zero two one”, so 1021. The distractors transpose or bump one digit, the classic error when copying a pressure setting by ear. In the listening mode the transmission plays once and the question with its options appears only after the audio ends, so there is no reading ahead.
In the read-then-answer mode a short text is on screen for 90 seconds. Then it is removed and a single question appears, with 30 seconds to answer and no way back to the text. Here are both screens of one item. Read the text, then try the question.
When Ana's car got a flat tyre on a quiet country road, she was not worried: there was a spare in the boot. But when she lifted it out, she found that it was flat too. She had meant to check it after a long trip in the spring and had forgotten. A farmer passing on his tractor lent her a pump, and she reached the next town an hour late.
Why was Ana late?
Choose the written, ATC listening or read-then-answer mode. Written runs let you pick item types and duration, or the TestAir360 preset; listening runs use fixed question presets and a sound check before you start; read-then-answer runs are five or ten texts.
Written: read each item and pick the best of four options. Listening: hear the transmission once, then answer when the question appears. Read, then answer: read the text for 90 seconds, then answer its question from memory. Skip rather than guess when unsure, a wrong answer costs a point.
After finishing, review each item: the question (with the transmission transcript in listening runs, or the text in read-then-answer runs), your answer versus the correct option, and a short explanation.
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.
Read three statements and pick the conclusion that logically follows. Tests your deductive reasoning under time pressure.
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.
Pick the word closest in meaning to the one shown. Tests the breadth and precision of your vocabulary under time pressure.
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.
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.