Originally Posted by
sycamore
Can someone explain `CBT /CBAT` scores ,for someone from the `good `ol days`,..please...?
I was going to ask the same….. in my time at Biggin Hill OASC the aptitude tests consisted of contraptions such as winding a wooden wheel operating a contact with a time delay across a rotating drum covered in a pattern of metal dots. The more dots correctly “driven” over, the better the score.
Another test was watching a cascading row of symbols on a projection screen at the front of the room and pressing piano like keys that matched them as they fell. The rate of the falling symbols increased over time. More like a recruiting test for budding musicians. I’m sure I was rubbish at that one.
I was initially offered GD(N), which I declined. Having discounted my chances, I went off to study engineering instead. The following year I unexpectedly received a letter offering me a direct entry commission as a GD(P).