VERBAL REASONING!!!!!!! When I went for BA (quite a while ago)!! the only people who seemed to get through were those who woke one morning, saw the advert in the paper for sponsorship and thought "That looks like a good job!" The likes of you and me, we've wanted to fly all our lives and we don't get a look in. Does verbal reasoning really equate to whether you can manage to fly an aircraft or not. I would say not! The thing that does is the fact that you are motivated enough to learn and put yourself through the process.
I was lucky and got into the industry through sponsorship with a company who looked at your motivation, and general aptitude to the specific job, not whether you could analise a sentence. Sorry this is not the info you require but it does annoy me that companies can reject someone out of hand without even talking to them and establishing the motivation behind the dream!
[This message has been edited by pitchlink (edited 28 November 1999).]