Planning Test
IntellectualBuild 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.
Overview
The Planning Test measures your ability to reason under multiple simultaneous constraints. Easy scenarios have 7 employees, two role types, exact workload percentages and personal restrictions — every rule can be satisfied, and each violation costs 10 points. Medium and Hard scenarios add a third role, junior/senior/intern levels, internal vs external contracts and availability caps. On Medium every rule can be satisfied and the score rewards minimizing expensive external hours; on Hard no perfect schedule exists — every violated rule costs its own penalty. Your score shows how close you came to the best possible plan.
Assessments
Tested in assessments at KLM.
Could show up in Schuhfried-based selections.
Airline mappings are based on public information and may change.
Example: a completed weekly plan
You fill in a grid for the whole week — each cell is a person's role for that morning or afternoon — so that every rule is met. Below is one valid, completed plan for a factory team.
General rules
- Each time slot must have exactly 1 management (M) person present.
- Each time slot must have exactly 3 factory (F) workers present.
- The specified workload percentages must be met exactly.
Restrictions
Each test also gives several per-person restrictions — for example “only works Friday morning”, “only works full days”, or “cannot work Friday”. They further constrain who goes where; the full list isn't shown in this example.
| Employee | Role | % | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| morning | afternoon | morning | afternoon | morning | afternoon | morning | afternoon | morning | afternoon | |||
| Mark | M | 10% | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | M | X |
| Fien | M | 50% | X | M | M | X | X | M | M | X | X | M |
| Sam | M+F | 100% | M | F | F | M | M | F | F | M | F | F |
| Chris | F | 40% | F | F | X | F | X | X | X | F | X | X |
| Lisa | F | 20% | F | X | X | X | F | X | X | X | X | X |
| Roos | F | 80% | X | X | F | F | F | F | F | F | F | F |
| Noah | F | 100% | F | F | F | F | F | F | F | F | F | F |
When you submit, your plan is checked against every rule and you can review it cell by cell. Each cell is marked correct, wrong role (right person working, wrong role), or incorrect, and every rule is listed as correctly or incorrectly applied.
Scoring starts at 100 and loses 10 points per broken rule, so it pays to double-check the per-slot counts, each person's %, and every restriction before finishing.
Game Phases
Choose
Pick a difficulty and presentation, then a scenario — from factories and zoos (Easy) to the airport (Hard).
Plan
Click cells to assign roles. Satisfy every general rule and personal restriction.
Review
See which rules you applied correctly and how your grid compares to the ideal solution.
More Practice
Multitasking & Planning
8 exercisesMultitasking 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.
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.