Psychometric tests for pilots: the CUT E / AON series

Choose a test: CUT E / AON series

• The tunnel

  Steer through a tunnel and get past rotating obstacles without colliding with them. Coordination and anticipation.

  40 obstacles, three levels, about two minutes. Mouse or finger.

  Take the tunnel test

• Matrices

  A grid of 3 x 3 figures with the last one missing: find, among eight, the one that follows every rule. Logical reasoning.

  20 matrices in 25 minutes, getting steadily harder, with optional corrections. Mouse or keyboard.

  Take the matrices test

• Deductive reasoning

  A 4 x 4 or 5 x 5 grid where each symbol appears once in every row and every column: which symbol goes in the “?” cell? Logical reasoning.

  30 questions in 20 minutes, from the easiest to the hardest, with the deduction explained cell by cell. Mouse or keyboard.

  Take the deductive reasoning test

• Landing

  Land 30 aircraft that climb and descend unpredictably by moving the runway, while checking equations and spotting repeated letters. Divided attention.

  30 aircraft in five to six minutes, scored out of 100. Mouse or finger; on the keyboard, arrow keys and keys 1 to 4.

  Take the landing test

• Directions

  One arrow gives the heading of an aircraft, another its new heading: choose the manoeuvre that links them, turn left or right, straight on, U-turn. Spatial transformation.

  One minute, as many questions as you can, scored as a percentage of right answers, with a corrected training mode. Mouse, finger, arrow keys or keys 1 to 4.

  Take the directions test

• GYRO / RBI

  Two dials give the heading of an aircraft and the direction of an NDB beacon: place the aircraft around the beacon, among eight positions, and choose its heading from four silhouettes. Spatial awareness.

  20 questions in 20 minutes, from the easiest to the hardest, with optional explained corrections and a class at the end. Mouse, finger, keys 1 to 8 and A to D.

  Take the GYRO / RBI test

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What is in the CUT E / AON series?

The CUT E / AON series brings together five exercises: deductive reasoning, the matrices (also offered in the BQ series, at the same address), the multitask landing, directions and the tunnel. Two logical reasoning exercises, one divided-attention exercise (the landing), one spatial transformation exercise (directions) and one coordination exercise (the tunnel).

Deductive reasoning has 30 questions in 20 minutes, the landing 30 aircraft in five to six minutes, directions a one-minute set and the tunnel 40 obstacles in about two minutes. Corrections and the timer are up to you where the exercise offers them: start by understanding the rule, then play under time conditions.

How to approach each exercise

• Deductive reasoning: eliminate with reasons

  Since each symbol appears once in every row and every column, note the symbols already present in the row and the column of the “?” cell, then, if several candidates remain, go through a neighbouring cell that has only one. Every grid has a single answer.

  The guide: Deductive Reasoning: The Symbol Grid Method

• Matrices: predict the missing cell

  These are the same matrices as in the BQ series, at the same address. Look for the rules one by one (rotation, movement, fill), then picture the missing cell before you look at the eight answers.

  The guide: Raven-style matrices: finding the rules in a grid

• Landing: the runway comes first

  The runway counts for 60% of the score out of 100, the equations and the letters for 20% each, and a wrong answer takes points off: do not answer at random. If you are overloaded, give up the letters first, then the equations, never the runway.

  The guide: Multitask Landing Test: The Runway Comes First

• Directions: from the current heading to the new one

  One arrow gives the aircraft's current heading and a second arrow the new heading: choose the manoeuvre that links them (turn left, straight on, turn right or U-turn). For each pair of headings exactly one manoeuvre is right, and the new heading of one question becomes the current heading of the next. The score is the percentage of right answers among the answers you gave: a mistake weighs as much as a right answer.

• GYRO / RBI: the heading, the bearing, the position

  The GYRO gives the aircraft's heading, the RBI the relative bearing of the NDB beacon from the aircraft's nose: add the two, then add or subtract 180°, and you get the aircraft's position around the beacon (1 to the north, then clockwise). Choose that position among the eight cells, then the heading among four silhouettes.

• Tunnel: aim where the opening will be

  Obstacles rotate around the axis of the tunnel: a wall with openings, or a bar. Watch which way the obstacle turns and aim for where the opening will be, not where it is; make small movements, as accuracy matters more than the speed of your gesture. Three levels to choose from: Normal, Hard, Expert.

A progressive practice plan

1. Start with the reasoning exercises, deductive reasoning then the matrices, with the corrections on: each mistake shows you which cell or which rule should have been your stepping stone.
2. Build up the landing in stages: first the aircraft alone, without answering the equations or the letters, then add the equations in the pauses between two aircraft, then the letters, and finally full sets.
3. Keep the tunnel for short sessions, after another exercise: it lasts about two minutes and asks for accuracy more than for thought.

Look at your completed sets in “My statistics” rather than at your last result: a single result says little.

The guide: Psychometric tests for pilots: where do you start?

Our guides to help you succeed

• Psychometric tests for pilots: where do you start?
• Deductive Reasoning: The Symbol Grid Method
• Raven-style matrices: finding the rules in a grid
• Multitask Landing Test: The Runway Comes First

What the CUT E / AON series is not

The exercises of the CUT E / AON series are practice exercises, not official tests: they do not reproduce the test of any school or airline, and they measure neither your medical fitness nor your level as a pilot. A good score in practice does not predict the outcome of a selection.

ForAllPilots is not affiliated with any test publisher or any organisation. The exact rules and scoring of a selection test may differ from those of these exercises.

Frequently asked questions

The other sets of exercises

Each series has its own page, with its exercises, its practice tips and its guides.

• Air France - ENAC (FR)

  13 exercises, in French only.

• BQ

  Another set of exercises: cube comparison and cube nets (spatial awareness), matrices and figure series (logical reasoning) and word problems.

• COMPASS

  A fourth set of exercises: flying a primary flight display, orientation from the instruments and short-term memory.

• DLR

  A fifth set of exercises: cube folding, the triangles, data processing, trajectory prediction, the rotating maze, the corridors, timed calculation, 2D and 3D spatial orientation, the two vigilance tests and information perception and processing (spatial awareness, rule-based lookup, anticipating a hidden movement, staying oriented despite a rotated picture, visual and auditory memory, calculation under a time limit, vigilance and divided attention), and VLR - Spatial Orientation and the figure series, two exercises from other series also offered here.